I couldn’t disagree more. I practiced 2tc for an entire off season and hated it everytime just as much as I did the first try. You’re personal opinion doesn’t make something the best I’m sorry to say. Is 2tc a great climbing method? For me no for someone who likes it absolutely. I take my 1 stick to my presets. It’s 3 less bolts to put in the tree and across 25-30 trees that adds up quick. I can climb 30 feet effortlessly with my one stick but when I 2tc I’m dangling there alerting everything in ear shot of what I’m doing. I’m glad it worked for you but don’t rudely claim that it’s the only way.
All the money I've saved with a saddle and 1 stick, now I can move on to air guns, compressors, and suppressors. I now own 2 $1000 pellet rifles....I went with a couple cheap ones until I know what I'm doin'Darn, and I finally thought I was done spending money . . .
anybody wanna buy a hand pump?
Atleast 2 of your sticks shoot.All the money I've saved with a saddle and 1 stick, now I can move on to air guns, compressors, and suppressors. I now own 2 $1000 pellet rifles....I went with a couple cheap ones until I know what I'm doin'
& would eventually drop the stick! Not a big problem for me, because I connect my rappel line at ground level (or hoist it up on a paracord pre-set tree) & use it as my tether on the way up, but it would still be a BPITA!) doesn't like the contortions that I have tried that are needed for me to 1-stick! I tried to do it with one of my sticks, & it just isn't for me.
no it doesn't look hard. looks like the same thing I'm doing, only slower (and a little nosier cause he's not unhooking on that white oak bark, i would each move up on that tree). also when I stop I don't have to set a platform, cause I'm standing on it already. granted, I'm talking about an EWO UP 1 stick (the wings it has are important, I can unhook and squeeze my knees and still have 2 hands off tree), not one you got to carry a separate platform with. I'd 2tc if I was carrying a separate platform or before I'd use modified stick. he's climbing the same way I am but he is limited in ways (small ways) that I am not, and that make difference. the only way that saves weight is with ROS. I hunted for years off them. don't like them cause they cost me a deer on a spin out. I don't 1 stick like people advocate on forum, cause I can climb how ever I please. I use a mini wire gated carabiner on rappel/tether that allows me to unhook quick and it doesn't slide down/ need tether keeper. Also I can sit down on my 1 stick, which I do a lot. so in my eyes, what he's doing is a downgrade from what I'm doing, even though it's basically the same thing.. and I come down a whole lot faster than that
all together 3 1/2 lbs wet.all im willing to carry 12 miles a day on an elk hunt.harvested 2 bears this way
So how do you know that someone isn't gonna come up with a better method next week and 2tc will be that fading fad method that you speak of?
Heck, I've been climbing branches since I was 6. Until I fell 16 ft. and landed flat on my back.
