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Saddle numbers

bowhunthard88 said:
I've never bumped into anyone in the woods saddle hunting, but I rarely see anyone during archery season. I have "converted" 10+ people though. My wife says that I get people to saddle hunt so that I can sell the gear that I decide doesn't work for me haha!
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Tell your wife to shush.

I’m kidding don’t do that…

The struggle is real in the classifieds here. I make a post about why I don’t like a piece of gear then sell it. The irony! Good news for me - everyone here usually disagrees with my opinion. So if they see me saying I don’t like something they buy it immediately!
 
kyler1945 said:
Tell your wife to shush.

I’m kidding don’t do that…

The struggle is real in the classifieds here. I make a post about why I don’t like a piece of gear then sell it. The irony! Good news for me - everyone here usually disagrees with my opinion. So if they see me saying I don’t like something they buy it immediately!
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Luckily my wife doesn't really know what I have, because I usually sell stuff and then realize I have another purpose or decide to re-try it and end up buying stuff again haha! I would seriously put myself in a gear junkie category, but not just to own, it has to work with my complete system.
 
Fl Canopy Stalker said:
^^^ comment of the year nominee and it’s early in the year! ^^^^ :sweatsmile:
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I saw a truck with a giant tethrd sticker. It’s the first one I’ve seen in the wild.

I noted two things about the vehicle, and the feller driving it: the whole bundle looked nothing like deer killin’; and the whole bundle looked EXACTLY like what I’d draw up if you asked me to illustrate a scene with a vehicle and the type of person who’d put a giant tethrd sticker on it.


I say all this with no judgement or ill will towards tethrd. It was good for a laugh though. He probably looked at me in my wool hoody and dirty truck and bike and thought “nerd”.
 
Weldabeast said:
How many random people did u meet this season who saddle hunting also? The season prior to this year I met 1 other guy who had converted.......this season I met 4 random people who have adopted it.
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I converted 1 of my hunting buddies and when I showed another hunting pal how it works he shook his head and said you’re NUTS!! His loss I guess. Lol!!
 
I don't want to convert anybody and I don't want to see other hunters when I'm out in the field. I want to be the one who can get in and out quick and quiet, slip an arrow into the boiler room of a buck and be done with it. The more people who really take the time to try out saddle hunting will enjoy it and then they'll be in the deeper spots and the rougher spots. Right now, I want people to think they have to lug a bunch of stuff around or set up ladder stands to keep them out of the game. Selfish? PRobably. That being said, I'm a volunteer instructor and during my hunting and bowhunting classes I always go over my saddle hunting kit and show students how it works. Many of them are intimidated by it at first but even though I say... it really is not difficult... etc. Most pooh pooh it. I say.... good deal. You keep luggin' and huggin' but there are alternatives out there. I have fellow instructors that look at it and say.... "I still like my buddy ladder stand." I say... good for you. Whatever works for you. But there are options for anyone. Another thing I've also noticed..... for many people..... paying as much or more for some nylon straps and ropes compared to buying an all steel ladder stand that gets them up 20'....... they just simply do a value comparison of material vs no material not assigning a huge value to mobility and lightness and all the other tangiible but unseen benefits we as saddle hunters recognize. When it comes down to seeing a big ole box for $179.99 or less for a 20' double person ladder stand with a big ole' cushy seat cushion etc. compared to a tiny half a shoe box saddle setup for $250 plus.... many people cannot equate the value.
 
Weldabeast said:
I had my outlook/notion of ebike owners destroyed when a POS early 90s pickup truck slowed down to chat and this dude in a wife beater asked if I been seeing anything.....he had an ebike in the back

No stand in the back so I can only assume
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Maybe he was "borrowing it".
 
NMSbowhunter said:
I showed one of my hunting buddies this photo and told him I was about 28 feet to my feet. He said "H$ll No!" and then started having shaking fits like he saw a snake. LOL.
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You know that's an interesting point too. Alot of people have to have full platform below them to feel comfortable. I have a buddy who needs a shooting rail around all of his ladder stands. He's not a bowhunter but I always thought it was for stabilizing a shot, he said "no, I want something to grab onto in case I feel like I'm going to fall!?!?" I said well you should have a harness on tethered to the tree in case you do fall as the rail is not meant for that..... so he welded beefier rails around all the ladder stands we use.... some of them are mine and he put the stupid rails on them too. Another reason I use my saddle alot on one of the private tracts I hunt!!!
 
Met one guy considering it. That guy said he had a nephew that saddle hunted. Saw someone in the Jackson Ohio Walmart parking lot this fall eith a Tethrd sticker on his van
 
woodsdog2 said:
You know that's an interesting point too. Alot of people have to have full platform below them to feel comfortable. I have a buddy who needs a shooting rail around all of his ladder stands. He's not a bowhunter but I always thought it was for stabilizing a shot, he said "no, I want something to grab onto in case I feel like I'm going to fall!?!?" I said well you should have a harness on tethered to the tree in case you do fall as the rail is not meant for that..... so he welded beefier rails around all the ladder stands we use.... some of them are mine and he put the stupid rails on them too. Another reason I use my saddle alot on one of the private tracts I hunt!!!
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Guy better be a good welder or you've got custom stands. Those ladder stands are thin and would burn through easy
 
Aside from the 2 guys I converted and the guy that converted me I’ve only ever seen one person in a saddle and it was actually this year I was in my tree and kept getting a glimpse of what I thought was just a branch in the wind. Finally curiosity got the best of me and I looked through the binos to see a guy swaying back and forth about 150 yards away. Needless to say He didn’t see anything (can’t imagine why with all the movement) but I did meet him up the road and we worked out the fact that he was in the area I frequent (and have for years) he was full mobile no presets and agreed to just stay on the other side of the beaver bogs. I also gave him a few tips from the things that I know of the area to help his success and he ended up shooting a nice 6pt as his first ever deer a few weeks later
 
I have 5 buddies that saddlehunt, like me, but never met anyone else. Always have people asking, but most think it would be scary to do. Thats fine they can do what they want, I thoroughly enjoy it.
 
My best bud is converting over this year. Seen a few saddle bumper stickers where I live. Chatted with the tech at the bow shop I frequent and he said there was another tech that switched to a saddle.
 
I've mentored a couple brand-spanking new hunters and I put them in a climber and full-body harness.

A climber just because I feel like it's far and away, and then some, the easiest way up the tree to shorten the learning curve getting to height.

A full harness honestly because I don't want to be liable for putting them in an RC or saddle using it off-label. Classic do as I say, not as I do situation. If something came out where I didn't feel like I had that exposure I would have put them in a front tethered harness because I feel like it has all the advantages, just not the official seals of approval for that hybrid-type use. But I think things are headed there.
 
SNIPERBBB said:
Guy better be a good welder or you've got custom stands. Those ladder stands are thin and would burn through easy
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He welded together railings and they are mounted to the stand with bolts. Its not welded to the stand. I could see how I stated it sounded like he welded them to the stand though. My bad.
 
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