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How are you all getting your bow up the tree

I clip mine on a carabiner to my d-loop on my saddle.


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I use a retractable dog lease from Walmart. I think it’s 16 ft. I clip it to a carabiner and hook that to my belt loops or my backpack
 
paracord wrapped in a figure 8 with a biner always clipped to my saddle. light weight, simple and can't fail.
 
I also carry mine up on my back as I go. I like to clip my platform to the sternum strap on my pack while climbing and its easily accessible when I get to height. I learned that tip on here and it has helped a lot
 
Pulling up a bow is for the birds. Banging on and getting stuck on branches in the dark, popping arrows out the quiver... no thanks.

Doesn’t matter if I’m using my climbers or sticks, my predator goes on my chest with the front chest buckles on the shoulder straps of my alps pack and it stays tight right in front of me. And my bow goes right in my alps pack and I climb with everything all at once. Piece of cake. If it’s cold and my pack is too full to slide the bow in for the climb up I just use the lashes on my alps pursuit pack to hold my bow.
 
Some of you guys must be climbing and setting different kinds of trees than I climb.
I love cover in my tree. Branches and limbs are an asset. I try to remove as little of them as possible. Not only do limbs help me hide from deer, it also helps me conceal my tree from other hunters. The more you cut, the more obvious a stand tree becomes to other hunters.

I can't imagine trying to climb some of my trees and maneuvering between branches during the climb with a bow attached to me, and that's with a trad bow with no sights, rests, cables, etc, etc, etc. Don't you guys run the risk of bumping sights and rests when climbing with your bow attached? Doesn't any of that complex equipment ever get tangled in branches and stuff while you climb? And if you hunt public, you are not even allowed to prune stuff on the way up.

My typical climbing scenario is...Lean the bow against the tree in a safe position (nice thing about a recurve is I can lean it, no need to lay it on the ground), take my haul line (which was wrapped in a figure 8 so it won't tangle) and the little loop I have on the end of it goes between the string and bow limb and the loop goes over the limb tip. it's 100% secure with no metal clips. I climb, and after I tether, I pull up the bow and maneuver it safely up the tree. I don't understand why using a haul line to pull the bow up after the climb is a difficult thing for some guys.
 
Allegheny Tom said:
Some of you guys must be climbing and setting different kinds of trees than I climb.
I love cover in my tree. Branches and limbs are an asset. I try to remove as little of them as possible. Not only do limbs help me hide from deer, it also helps me conceal my tree from other hunters. The more you cut, the more obvious a stand tree becomes to other hunters.

I can't imagine trying to climb some of my trees and maneuvering between branches during the climb with a bow attached to me, and that's with a trad bow with no sights, rests, cables, etc, etc, etc. Don't you guys run the risk of bumping sights and rests when climbing with your bow attached? Doesn't any of that complex equipment ever get tangled in branches and stuff while you climb? And if you hunt public, you are not even allowed to prune stuff on the way up.

My typical climbing scenario is...Lean the bow against the tree in a safe position (nice thing about a recurve is I can lean it, no need to lay it on the ground), take my haul line (which was wrapped in a figure 8 so it won't tangle) and the little loop I have on the end of it goes between the string and bow limb and the loop goes over the limb tip. it's 100% secure with no metal clips. I climb, and after I tether, I pull up the bow and maneuver it safely up the tree. I don't understand why using a haul line to pull the bow up after the climb is a difficult thing for some guys.
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My bow gets strapped to my back on the climb. It stays inside my shoulders and tight to my back. I've never had an issue with it getting snagged on branches and some of the trees I hunt have so many of them that I don't even use sticks, just climb the branches. It was more of an issue trying to pull my bow up without banging it off every branch on the way up. I don't worry about my sight or rest getting bumped, I chose them because they're rock solid. I dropped my bow from hunting height (I was about 10 feet to my ROS) last year. Climbed down, drew it back and shot at a rotten log 20 yards away and was dead on. You made a very good point earlier about what could happen in a fall with a quiver full of arrows attached that I hadn't considered though. Thanks for mentioning that, definitely has me thinking...
 
I have a Doyle's on pre-order but I have always left a paracord in all of my trees for a bow pull up. I screw one of those cheap hooks from Walmart in at the base of the tree for a tie off point to make sure it stays put.
 
I used just an old string or paracord for years before I knew about the Doyles. I climb up through some pretty woolly trees and have had the string loop and wrap around a branch, get caught and have to go back down to undo the loop. The Doyles keeps tension on the line the whole time retracting or letting out more line as I go basically eliminating the line getting looped around a limb so my vote is for the Doyles. I use the rope version because it's small diameter and probably won't get caught on cedar tree limbs, briars, etc. as bad.
 
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