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Primary Climbing Method Poll

What is your go to climbing method?

  • Sticks, Sticks w/ Aider

    Votes: 134 45.7%

  • One Stick Method

    Votes: 47 16.0%

  • WE Stepps w/ knaider/swaider

    Votes: 25 8.5%

  • WE Stepps w/ 5 step aider

    Votes: 16 5.5%

  • SRT

    Votes: 14 4.8%

  • Tree Bolts

    Votes: 23 7.8%

  • Spurs

    Votes: 14 4.8%

  • Other - explain in comments

    Votes: 10 3.4%

  • Hand climber

    Votes: 10 3.4%
  • Total voters
    293
mattsteg said:
Have you tried the cranfords yet? Unless you go aider they are a royal pain packing up on the way down.

I'm not voting because there's nothing that I love that I can use everywhere. Otherwise I'd vote bolts.
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I've climbed with them several times. To me, rolling the rope up isn't that bad. They setup about as fast as bolts, but they do teardown slower. If we lived where it snowed I may feel differently. Pros and cons to everything; I just refuse to pack sticks, and don't like fiddling with WE steps on weird trees.
 
Screw in steps start to finish for presets on private land. Lone wolf hand climber with my "Adrena Mod" for public lands. Sticks are used for heavy limbed trees if i need them on public.
 
Nutterbuster said:
You must be making more bottles to use in canoe pics this weekend! ;)

I'm a bolts guy too. Guess I'mma be a cranford guy where those aren't legal. I've tried everything else and just don't love it.
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Ha, nope, me, my wife and 1 kid have been puking for two days...I'm delerious. Especially after boiling nights most of the week.
 
Vtbow said:
Ha, nope, me, my wife and 1 kid have been puking for two days...I'm delerious. Especially after boiling nights most of the week.
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Weird, my #1 pig-hunting bud was glued to a toilet this weekend. I'll ask him how he managed to infect somebody on the opposite end of the world!

Feel better.
 
Nutterbuster said:
I've climbed with them several times. To me, rolling the rope up isn't that bad. They setup about as fast as bolts, but they do teardown slower. If we lived where it snowed I may feel differently. Pros and cons to everything; I just refuse to pack sticks, and don't like fiddling with WE steps on weird trees.
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I think i may have cut it too close on pack size when i was working with them. And possibly done too good of a job getting them tight. It's not like i really have a better answer.
 
mattsteg said:
I think i may have cut it too close on pack size when i was working with them. And possibly done too good of a job getting them tight. It's not like i really have a better answer.
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When I win the lottery, I'll buy 12 of @DanO's squirrel steps and climb with those. That would be lighter, easier, and only slightly bulkier. But for now, cranfords and bullmans are about the only financially feasible "public legal" method that I like.
 
mattsteg said:
I think i may have cut it too close on pack size when i was working with them. And possibly done too good of a job getting them tight. It's not like i really have a better answer.
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I've had the exact same experience. Taking them down and packing them up always sucked. I had literally 100 of them. I'm going to straight up strap on aluminum steps this year. They're lighter and easier, though a little more bulky. I'll probably use them 2 times though, as I hunt 99% private.
 
Bolts for presets
3 cut down diy sticks and movable 5 step aider for everything else


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Everything I try I keep coming back to my 3 Helium sticks. I wish I could find something more packable. But the fiddle factor is low with the ole Heli's and they work on every tree I've ever wanted to climb. Cimbers are great for the former but strike out on the latter. The strap-ons and stepps vice versa.

If they were legal I would probably use spurs.
 
Gunna be using a lone wolf hand climber seat. I hunted on the ground more last year and had success getting real close. Had multiple encounters with deer within 10 yards without getting busted. If the spot works for a hand climber great. If not, the ground is just as good, sometimes a better option then getting up in the air.
 
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