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Latitude Carbon Sticks - Saddle Attachment Method?

Pitch fork here and I'm not even interested in the sticks. I have had good experiences in person when I have had the chance to talk to Latitude guys, I'm local to them. They're good folks. I've tried email/chat portal, told them I'm local and hear nothing. I plan to ask W T F at the show in Kalamazoo next weekend. There is another local to Latitude member who couldn't open a dialog with them too, posted over in the vendor section. I'm definitely not trying to throw local to me ( or otherwise )saddle hunters or members under the bus, at all. But why can't we get a reply?? West Michigan money is no good or what?

I know a guy or 4 that I know will treat me right, why should we all play nice? Do they do us favors in return? Not in my experience. Just saying
 
Horn said:
Pitch fork here and I'm not even interested in the sticks. I have had good experiences in person when I have had the chance to talk to Latitude guys, I'm local to them. They're good folks. I've tried email/chat portal, told them I'm local and hear nothing. I plan to ask W T F at the show in Kalamazoo next weekend. There is another local to Latitude member who couldn't open a dialog with them too, posted over in the vendor section. I'm definitely not trying to throw local to me ( or otherwise )saddle hunters or members under the bus, at all. But why can't we get a reply?? West Michigan money is no good or what?

I know a guy or 4 that I know will treat me right, why should we all play nice? Do they do us favors in return? Not in my experience. Just saying
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Not saying you have to be nice. If you had a bad experience with cs it is worth saying. I haven't everytime I contacted them I got a prompt reply. But that was in the first year they started. So things probably have changed since then. I am sure they get way more inquiries these days then they did before. Probably don't have enough people dedicated to keeping up with the volume. If that is the case then definitely their bad.
 
I ordered mine Feb 28. Haven’t got a shipping notice yet. I tried contacting CS 3 times now and got no reply. I live about 35 min from them and offered to come pick them up. No reply. I guess they didn’t care for my sense of humor.
As long as the sticks get here before the end of August I’m good. Just need a little bit of time to practice with them.
 
Ordered mine 12:16 pm on February 3 and no shipping notification yet.:sweatsmile:
 
Well I got them. I had to adjust a couple cameras so I took one of them with me. First off they feel stupid light. They are a lot more rigid then I was expecting. Standing on them you don't feel any flex I am sure there is a little bit but they are not spongy at all I am 240. They lock into the tree pretty tight I don't think you have to worry about them popping loose on you.

My only cons to them are if you use the rope lock the way it shows in the instructions it eats up a fair amount of rope. That is easy to fix with a longer rope probably 24" tree max with the length on the stick. Stand off distance is on the shorter side. If you like a ton of room these probably aren't for you. There is plenty of room if you angle your feet out. Seems like just a little shorter then my beast sticks.
Stick to stick makes a fair bit of noise but that is easy to fix.

I am going to keep them and run them. I got the genesis outdoors kit ordered for these sticks so I think that will work pretty good for the noise aspect.

Overall I am pretty happy with them, useability I would probably still prefer my beast but these come in a fair amount lighter and will be dedicated to my saddle setup. Still running my beast minis with the beast stand.
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Mopar1169 said:
Well I got them. I had to adjust a couple cameras so I took one of them with me. First off they feel stupid light. They are a lot more rigid then I was expecting. Standing on them you don't feel any flex I am sure there is a little bit but they are not spongy at all I am 240. They lock into the tree pretty tight I don't think you have to worry about them popping loose on you.

My only cons to them are if you use the rope lock the way it shows in the instructions it eats up a fair amount of rope. That is easy to fix with a longer rope probably 24" tree max with the length on the stick. Stand off distance is on the shorter side. If you like a ton of room these probably aren't for you. There is plenty of room if you angle your feet out. Seems like just a little shorter then my beast sticks.
Stick to stick makes a fair bit of noise but that is easy to fix.

I am going to keep them and run them. I got the genesis outdoors kit ordered for these sticks so I think that will work pretty good for the noise aspect.

Overall I am pretty happy with them, useability I would probably still prefer my beast but these come in a fair amount lighter and will be dedicated to my saddle setup. Still running my beast minis with the beast stand.
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Really? Less room than beast sticks? They must of changed them sometime during testing.
 
Mopar1169 said:
I didn't measure the two to see. Just feals that way. I will take a measurement for standoff distance when I get home from vacation.
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I have beast sticks so can take some side by side photos whenever mine show up. No shipping notification yet.

Edit: looked back at my order, apparently I ordered 4 sticks, not 3. Hopefully that's not causing extra shenanigans for me and it's just because I ordered a few weeks after the guys that have received them already.
 
thedutchtouch said:
I have beast sticks so can take some side by side photos whenever mine show up. No shipping notification yet.

Edit: looked back at my order, apparently I ordered 4 sticks, not 3. Hopefully that's not causing extra shenanigans for me and it's just because I ordered a few weeks after the guys that have received them already.
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I ordered mine Feb 28, and haven’t got a shipping notice yet either. Seems like the people that ordered them in the beginning of February are up now.
I’m hoping that means I’ll get mine around the end of August.
 
Curious how they hold compared to Beasts. Looking to get a good secure stick for hunting with the kids.
 
For what it’s worth, I ordered mine on 7/1. At that time, the website referenced end of July ship.
I reached out Latitude on 7/5 and Jarrett verified my order was still scheduled for end of July ship. After reading thru this string earlier, I reached out again on 7/13 and Jarrett again verified they are on track to ship my order end of July. Hoping the recent updates from them are still accurate, which would mean all orders prior to 7/1 should still be shipping over the next few days. Fingers crossed.
 
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