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Rappelling & pack up after hunt time

I'll try to make a short video later showing how this works. In the meantime, here's a picture of my current stuff sack project. I still need to dye it but I made this one as a cinch pack for a minimalist/ease of carrying around bag. The 50cal. ammo can is for size comparison and there's 75' of Canyon C-IV in it:
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The nice thing about these is that the rope won't twist or get tangled up when pulling the rope out. All you do is stuff the rope into the sack starting with the end you don't want to use first. As you stuff the rope in there, it'll look like a god-awful spaghetti mess and that's okay. When you're ready to use it, you simply pull out the end of the rope that was last to be stuffed in and the rope will pay itself out if you're using it for SRT/DRT.

For 1-sticking, you'd simply reverse the stuffing order as you'd want the anchor side of the rope to be the first to come out of the bag.
 
Just thought of something that could save you a bit of time though its at the expense of more bulk to carry in and out is to do a DRT rappel. Dont have to fool with a pull rope that way.
 
From the moment I decide to come down to walking it is about 10-12 minutes most times. I ascend, hang, and rappel with the Safeguard so after I lower my weapon with my pull-down line I stash my gear strap and lower my backpack with my rappel line. Then rappel down to my one-stick and roll-up my aider before I take it off the tree. Rappel down, pull rope down, and then arm/elbow my rope and place in my pack. Lash my stick to the back of my pack and then the longest task is probably the pull-down rope if there's underbrush. Still I'm usually walking by the 10 minute mark with everything neatly in its place.
 
I rarely hunt the same tree twice so it’s to my advantage if a deer that didn’t show up hears me come down, gets spooky and decides that area ain’t cool so it’s going to stay away……because so am I.

Gotta stay positive.

As far as time goes, it’s dark so I don’t care how long it takes. I try to do it as quietly as I do going up the tree and I put everything away in the same spot I got it from so it will be ready next go around.
 
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I either one stick climb up and one stick climb back down or most of the time I take two sticks with a five step aider. The second option most of the time will get you high enough where you don’t have to mess with all of that stuff


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From the moment I decide to come down to walking it is about 10-12 minutes most times. I ascend, hang, and rappel with the Safeguard so after I lower my weapon with my pull-down line I stash my gear strap and lower my backpack with my rappel line. Then rappel down to my one-stick and roll-up my aider before I take it off the tree. Rappel down, pull rope down, and then arm/elbow my rope and place in my pack. Lash my stick to the back of my pack and then the longest task is probably the pull-down rope if there's underbrush. Still I'm usually walking by the 10 minute mark with everything neatly in its place.

Close to my sequence. I rap with my pack. And yes the rope pull down and stow is the longest task.


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From the moment I decide to come down to walking it is about 10-12 minutes most times. I ascend, hang, and rappel with the Safeguard so after I lower my weapon with my pull-down line I stash my gear strap and lower my backpack with my rappel line. Then rappel down to my one-stick and roll-up my aider before I take it off the tree. Rappel down, pull rope down, and then arm/elbow my rope and place in my pack. Lash my stick to the back of my pack and then the longest task is probably the pull-down rope if there's underbrush. Still I'm usually walking by the 10 minute mark with everything neatly in its place.
Great minds think alike…my routine xactly, except I use a stick talon for my UOS!
 
Did a observation sit and time from stand mode to walk mode was 12 minutes. No weapon


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I use a red light exclusively unless I got coyotes on my heels heading out ,then I turn to the brightest setting I got and hope to heck I don't walk under a bunch of roosted turkeys
 
I don't play around at all when I get out of the tree especially at dark or when the skeeters are thriving. Any/all ropes ,tether,pull line goes in my pack in the fastest, jumbled mess as quickly and quietly I can. Single stick,repelling down and pack up is super fast compared to fussing with 4 sticks.Ill have to time it next time but just a guess it would have to be under 5 minutes. I'll take the time at the truck,camp,home to reorganize for the next hunt. For me it's just more efficient that way.
 
I use a red light exclusively unless I got coyotes on my heels heading out ,then I turn to the brightest setting I got and hope to heck I don't walk under a bunch of roosted turkeys
A roosted turkey scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. Will never forget that as long as I live lol
 
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