tracker12
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Does anyone use their saddle while hunting out of a hang-on. I normally use my RCH. Not sure how I would connect to my tether while turning my back to the tree.
There are multiple threads on this already, but in the interest of expediency, yes, lots of people use this combo. Don’t put your back to the tree though, face it just as you would on a platform or ROS, and tether in normally. If the hang-on has a seat cushion, switch it to the underside of the seat, flip the seat up against the tree, and you can use the cushion as a knee rest while sitting in your saddle. The only thing you can’t get away with is true side-pressure, but the real estate of a standard hang-on should negate the need to use side-pressure anyway.Does anyone use their saddle while hunting out of a hang-on. I normally use my RCH. Not sure how I would connect to my tether while turning my back to the tree.
Couldn't have said it any better!!!There are multiple threads on this already, but in the interest of expediency, yes, lots of people use this combo. Don’t put your back to the tree though, face it just as you would on a platform or ROS, and tether in normally. If the hang-on has a seat cushion, switch it to the underside of the seat, flip the seat up against the tree, and you can use the cushion as a knee rest while sitting in your saddle. The only thing you can’t get away with is true side-pressure, but the real estate of a standard hang-on should negate the need to use side-pressure anyway.
For me, the point is just to use what I already have in the garage and not waste money lol. Plus it’s convenient to o have a few normal stands set throughout the property if you have friends who don’t use a saddle. The old Anderson slings featured both orientations on the packaging, facing and back-to, using a standard lock-on or ladder. Your saddle is quite literally a tree seat, so you don’t need to use the treestand seat as a seat, freeing it up as a knee cushion. I guess you could theoretically saddle in back-to the tree, but I can’t speak to the safety of this. One of the upsides to using a saddle over something like a HSS harness is that your fall is always being prevented/restrained, versus “arrested”. So if you tether in normally and just use the treestand as a big-ass platform, you’re safer than you would be with a harness due to the zero-to-little slack system and you have the benefits of facing the tree for camo, but you have all the benefits of the hang-on’s size and you can add slack to the system to turn truly 360 degrees. Like @deerfly said, I still prefer a trophyline platform, but when I encounter a friend’s ladder stand or one of my old lone wolf stands, I can just hook in normally.I thought the point of using your hang on was to go from sitting to standing? Your saying to only use it like a platform and face the tree?
I am just the opposite and why I am moving back to stand. Where I do a lot of my hunting more times than not there are extremely limited tree choices that work for any particular spot. A lot of times the right tree for the spot just doesnt set up well for platform use due to where limbs are on the tree relative to where the deer movement will be but they set up great for a stand. I seldom sit for more than 5-10 minutes whether in a saddle or on a stand so that aspect is not the deciding factor for me. While my mission is big enough to turn for a weak side shot, it isnt big enough to set up like a stand on the front side of a tree and hunt comfortably. The other area I do most of the rest of my hunting there are no shortage of good trees in most spots so the platform works great there. Just depends on the area or areas you hunt I suppose.I went way down a rabbit hole the last 2 seasons with this my takeaways were that a saddle is best utilized with a platform or ROS or combination of both which is my preference. A stand is best used as a stand. I found ZERO merit in meshing the two systems. This is after about 75 days of hunting last year and about 90 days this year YMMV
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Just put you tether on your non shooting shoulder and sit down. I do it all the time. Get this I even do it on my mission platform.Let me clarify. When I am in my Hang-on I want to sit in the seat and shoot out in front of me. Im not saddle hunting in this set-up. I currently use a RCH and run my Beal Dyna Glide under my right arm to my tether. Looking for connection points or ways to use the saddle instead of the RCH.
What rope is that?I like my setup for stand hunting using the rock harness and dynamic 8.4mm rope tether and prusic knot works great on a .5 View attachment 79089
REI and EWO prusic the rope is 8.5 dynamic prusic is 8mm you really need 11mm rope and 8mm prusic but I'm not using as life support just adjusts my tether. I twist 8 times really tight. Use at your own risk!!What rope is that?
And what rope did you use for the prusic?