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circa 2010 Treestands are heavy, bulky, and noisy. There's got to be a better way.
circa 2011 Turns out there is this thing called a saddle, which went away as it was never very popular. You can still find some used or DIY your own. I need to find one or figure out how to do all this. I wonder if anyone else knows about this?
circa 2013 Hey! There's a bunch of people looking for solutions, just like me. SH.com What a great thing internet forums are! Bringing together so many like minded individuals sharing ideas and helping each other. This is awesome!
circa 2015 What fun all of this saddle hunting camradery is! I mean, hunting is great, but getting to socialize and share ideas with so many cool folks around the country is even better. Sitdrags. Ameristeps. Klemz platforms. So many great ideas! I really feel good about my identity as a saddle hunter! We should have, like, t-shirts or something.
circa 2016 Making YouTube videos is fun! With all these great ideas shared on saddlehunter.com, there is an endless amount of content to be created to spread the joy of saddle hunting through videos. We really need a better designed platform though. Who around here knows anything about engineering and manufacturing one? Let's put our brains together and solve this problem!
2017 Interacting online is great and all, but wouldn't it be great to actually get together in person. We could call it, like, "Saddlerama", or something. Let's find some place to meet. We can pretend we are hunting swamp rats, while we have a great time sharing ideas in person. BTW, this new production saddle is cool...but why is it so heavy? And what is with these buckles? Who knows how to "fabric weld"? Let's work together to solve this problem!
2018 These fireside chats are awesome! Isn't it annoying putting up with the limited existing commercial options? Especially when some of them don't seem to listen very well to what we want in saddle hunting kit. Why do we have to put up with them anyway? We should start a company. But shhh! It's a secret!
2019 Hey now! What is with these other companies popping up? Don't they know we already have our own saddle hunter company? And look at those competitors' products! I mean, I thought this community was about making progress? Sheesh!
2020 Boy this community sure has grown/changed. All these new people....this place just feels different. Maybe we should move our OG group to other social media We can always pop in once in a while to check on the little people and steer any conversation we don't like. People will still see our stuff as long as are crafty with our product placement in hip new hunting video content creations.
2021 Wow, people just don't appreciate all that we are doing for the saddle hunting community. This forum has lost its way. Don't these people realize that they don't need to come together to work collaboratively to solve problems, they just need to buy our latest patent pending product that was inspired by others' contributions here? Boy, I sure am glad I was able to enjoy sh.com back when it was great. It's too bad what has happened to it.