GTel
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...the leg straps tend to want to slide off pack when folded up
Crossing the straps behind the whale tale stopped that from happening.
...the leg straps tend to want to slide off pack when folded up
Hey, what did you use to extend them? Thanks
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A loop of oplux works. But so will a runner.
Any pics or ideas on how to carry it in with a large back pack? Im trying to figure out how to get this thing to the woods with my meat hauler pack on.
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Minute 15:55 of this video shows how he uses it as a pack frame. You could probably just use a garbage bag for the meat. And this is a long video but worth the full watch.Any pics or ideas on how to carry it in with a large back pack? Im trying to figure out how to get this thing to the woods with my meat hauler pack on.
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I have used my Hybrid on every hunt this year and done multiple sits of 6 hrs or more with the longest being 10 hrs. It is more comfortable than my Summit Goliath which has now been sold. This past weekend I was planning on hunting a distant saddle way up on the mountain that I had not been to this year. It’s well over an hour hike with over 700 feet of elevation gain. I started thinking to myself that I needed to just take my backpack with My millennium tree seat and be as light as possible due to the distance and the climb. Before removing all of my gear from my hybrid I decided to weigh my hybrid set up fully loaded with water, food, LW Handclimber and all my gear, and compare it to my backpack fully loaded with millennium Tree seat. To my surprise there was only a difference of around 5 1/2 pounds. The fact that the JX 3 hybrid doubles as a pack frame and carries just as comfortably as my Horn Hunter pack is an absolute game changer. At 56 years of age I can carry this for miles into the Blue ridge mountains And hunt comfortably all day.
Man, I can't agree more with @jbogg here. It's light, comfortable, and really versatile!
I carried mine several miles on the cohutta wilderness and if you know anything about cohutta, you know it's a little hilly.
I am still trying to figure out a way to make it a proper ground seat or blind seat, but that's perhaps an off season DIY project for me to tackle.
What exactly is it ‘missing’ for you as a ground seat?
Nothing in particular is missing, I would just like the ability to put "legs" on it for a blind hunt.
Nothing in particular is missing, I would just like the ability to put "legs" on it for a blind hunt. Sometimes I hunt a small parcel of leased private land (club land) and I use a small hunting blind for this one spot that has no good trees to get in. I've actually killed a few, my first two deer ever, out of that blind, BUT, after spending hours in the JX3 sitting in the normal blind chair feels like I am in a torture device (Exaggeration). I messaged with John about a possible way of making the Stacked sticks legs for the JX3, but I am no engineer, shoot, I am not even that good at DIY-ing stuff.
So, I get the idea that you can sit on the ground and I am hoping to use that feature on an upcoming mountain hunt, but the ability to have it chair height would be a neat additional feature.
@neonomad I don't think anyone straps the JX3 to a pack, rather they strap a pack to the JX3 - I don't use a fancy pack or a large pack and it fits nicely with my LWHC in between the two sections of the JX3. I also try to pack things as flat as possible.
Nothing in particular is missing, I would just like the ability to put "legs" on it for a blind hunt. Sometimes I hunt a small parcel of leased private land (club land) and I use a small hunting blind for this one spot that has no good trees to get in. I've actually killed a few, my first two deer ever, out of that blind, BUT, after spending hours in the JX3 sitting in the normal blind chair feels like I am in a torture device (Exaggeration). I messaged with John about a possible way of making the Stacked sticks legs for the JX3, but I am no engineer, shoot, I am not even that good at DIY-ing stuff.
So, I get the idea that you can sit on the ground and I am hoping to use that feature on an upcoming mountain hunt, but the ability to have it chair height would be a neat additional feature.
@neonomad I don't think anyone straps the JX3 to a pack, rather they strap a pack to the JX3 - I don't use a fancy pack or a large pack and it fits nicely with my LWHC in between the two sections of the JX3. I also try to pack things as flat as possible.
Come on man. Don't just post a pic of the perfect solution. Give some details! Where do I send my cash? Paypal ready.....
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Pretty sure @kyler1945 posted this a while back as well and said John was working on this. It really does round out the JX3 to beyond "versatile"...Come on man. Don't just post a pic of the perfect solution. Give some details! Where do I send my cash? Paypal ready.....