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How many saddle hunters are out there?

Anyone know the attendance number(s) of the Mobile Hunter Expo a week, or so, ago? That might be a good indicator of interest, at least, per region?

@Reagan H. , do you have, or can you provide, the number of saddles sold by Tethrd? I would guess that they have the largest saddle market? At the very least, I would bet that most saddle hunters started with a Tethrd product of some sort?
 
Saddle hunting in general is also more geared towards the public land guy, sure people saddle hunt on private and love it, as will i, but the appeal of it is the light weight and packability that private land hunters just dont overly care about and here in the south alot of the public guys are like Weldabeast already said...all about climbers.
 
JoyRyd said:
Anyone know the attendance number(s) of the Mobile Hunter Expo a week, or so, ago? That might be a good indicator of interest, at least, per region?

@Reagan H. , do you have, or can you provide, the number of saddles sold by Tethrd? I would guess that they have the largest saddle market? At the very least, I would bet that most saddle hunters started with a Tethrd product of some sort?
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I don’t and unfortunately I’m not allowed to disclose any of that kind of information. But I would find that interesting as well.
 
Weldabeast said:
Excluding the people ive met off here I have run into 5 strangers running around North Florida public land sporting saddle stuff since I learned about it

Climbers are king around here
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Agreed. Climbers are king around here for those who want to be mobile.
 
Pretty much everyone I know that hunts uses a saddle. Most of us aren’t public land guys. We just like to bounce around the parcels we hunt without hanging a bunch of stands and don’t want to hump a climber across the ag field we hunt.
I’m probably in the minority, but the main reason I use a saddle is that I’m scared of heights and it’s the only way I feel comfortable climbing or at huntimg heights.
 
Andrew920 said:
Pretty much everyone I know that hunts uses a saddle. Most of us aren’t public land guys. We just like to bounce around the parcels we hunt without hanging a bunch of stands and don’t want to hump a climber across the ag field we hunt.
I’m probably in the minority, but the main reason I use a saddle is that I’m scared of heights and it’s the only way I feel comfortable climbing or at huntimg heights.
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I cant understand using a mobile setup on land I can learn and pinpoint how deer are using
 
Jeremy_D said:
I cant understand using a mobile setup on land I can learn and pinpoint how deer are using
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I can’t understand you not understanding what I said.

I think you mean to say you disagree with what I said, which is fine. I’ll try to do a better job of explaining. I hunt a 70 acre parcel which my wife’s family owns, I hunt a 190 acre parcel that a developer owns (and has a neighborhood on), I hunt a 3 acre parcel in the middle of a neighborhood, and last but not least I hunt an 18 acre parcel that’s on the outskirts of the suburbs. If I were to buy stands for all of those properties I’d have to own a semi trailer to haul all of them.
Secondarily, I hate stands left in trees. I think it looks like crap and I think it can be dangerous for kids in the area when they get left behind. And before you tell me you’d remove them at the end of the season I’ll tell you every property I hunt has multiple stand left from the guys that hunted it before.
Lastly, for me anyway, it’s about safety, security and comfort. I’m scared of heights. I physically can’t make myself transfer from a stick to a hang on. Ladder stands are better but still freak me out. The saddle is the only method that I’m comfortable in (other than a ground blind).
This has gotten too long so I’m not going I’m to deer movement. I’ll just concede that you must be better than I at pinpointing where a deer will be because I change locations/trees all the time within the properties I hunt.
 
Jeremy_D said:
I cant understand using a mobile setup on land I can learn and pinpoint how deer are using
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On most of the places I hunt I can pinpoint deer and hang permanent stands wherever I want. Not only do deer rapidly pattern stands I hunt out of more than twice per season, but things change and flux in the woods not even weekly but sometimes daily, especially when I am targeting a specific buck and using a bow. Being mobile after several years of presets leveled up my skills about 10x
 
JoyRyd said:
@Reagan H. , do you have, or can you provide, the number of saddles sold by Tethrd? I would guess that they have the largest saddle market? At the very least, I would bet that most saddle hunters started with a Tethrd product of some sort?
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I would think Trophyline is close to Tethrd if not above in some years over the last five…… @Jefferson10940 are you still affiliated with Trophyline???
 
Jeremy_D said:
I cant understand using a mobile setup on land I can learn and pinpoint how deer are using
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Most of the private tracts I hunt are either pounded themselves or the adjacent surrounding parcels (public or private) are thusly pounded as well. Compounding that in my area, an average private parcel is probably 50-80 acres and public locations are averaging 1000 to 1500 acres max in size……. It’s a pressure cooker and most bucks move dark only because of it…….Couple that with other hunters, firewood cutting and Timber operations, maple syrup dudes, bee dudes, ag practices (most farms around me are still crop farming in some capacity), the private tracts are mostly utilized constantly for many things other than hunting……In my area the deer pattern the routine hunters quick…. Including myself, which has forced me to incorporate saddle hunting into my hunting forays….. Maybe I can catch a glimpse of a buck during the daylight when the rut isn’t on but it’s not usually very likely…… Using saddles on these locations and educating the other users has helped increase my daylight sightings over the last few years….. I still attribute most of this movement to rut behavior though. My ultimate goal is to pattern and kill an early or late season target buck and that’s been tough for me to do. Most of my success has been rut movement. I’ll stop whining now!!!
 
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Andrew920 said:
I can’t understand you not understanding what I said.

I think you mean to say you disagree with what I said, which is fine. I’ll try to do a better job of explaining. I hunt a 70 acre parcel which my wife’s family owns, I hunt a 190 acre parcel that a developer owns (and has a neighborhood on), I hunt a 3 acre parcel in the middle of a neighborhood, and last but not least I hunt an 18 acre parcel that’s on the outskirts of the suburbs. If I were to buy stands for all of those properties I’d have to own a semi trailer to haul all of them.
Secondarily, I hate stands left in trees. I think it looks like crap and I think it can be dangerous for kids in the area when they get left behind. And before you tell me you’d remove them at the end of the season I’ll tell you every property I hunt has multiple stand left from the guys that hunted it before.
Lastly, for me anyway, it’s about safety, security and comfort. I’m scared of heights. I physically can’t make myself transfer from a stick to a hang on. Ladder stands are better but still freak me out. The saddle is the only method that I’m comfortable in (other than a ground blind).
This has gotten too long so I’m not going I’m to deer movement. I’ll just concede that you must be better than I at pinpointing where a deer will be because I change locations/trees all the time within the properties I hunt.
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Excellent logic. I agree 100%.


Semper Fi,
Mike
 
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