goodtimeshooter
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- Jan 30, 2015
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Maybe this is a solution to a problem no one but me has, or maybe it's been done and I just haven't seen it,but I thought I'd share just in case.... I just started with saddles this year, but between practice and hunts I have many many hours in my saddle and feel that I have the comfort pretty well dialed in with the exception of my feet and knees. I have trouble with both of those things anyway, so in the saddle it's been a struggle. After so long leaning my feet need a break, but even sitting there is still some pressure on my feet plus even with good knee pads there is 1.) a lot of pressure on the knees 2.) depending on tree size there isn't room for both knees. If I hike my knees up on the tree to take all the weight off of my feet then all of the pressure is on my knees plus one or the other is always wanting to slip off to the side of the tree and I'm using leg muscles to try to stabilize. Finally, I HATE sitting straddling the tree with my body right against it. I never figured out how to help all this until we had a cold snap and I broke out my IWOM for the first time. A few hours into the hunt I realized that without even thinking about it I was sitting, there was almost no pressure on my feet and my knees weren't trying to skip off to one side or the other. The difference was the IWOM. The fabric stretches across the tree, which takes a lot of the pressure, plus the knees actually ride off the side of the tree and are pushing against the fabric, not the hard tree. I'm in indiana, so it's 25 degrees that day and a day later it's 75 and I'm sweating, no IWOM, back to the same problem. I had a fleece saddle I had been playing around with, made a small change and came up with this. It really made a big difference for me, I don't use it constantly, but for long sits it really saves my feet and knees.