No, I find it quite pragmatic.
Here is my own personal philosophy with this stuff.
I am going to let procedure and calculated movement deal with 95% of my risk reduction.
I am going to stack the odds in my favor with every piece of gear I choose to make up the other 5%.
So let’s say I have a fall like the one Boyne Bowhunter had described the other day. He was very luckily able to slow his fall by hugging/grabbing the tree on the way down. I think the dynamic rope would greatly aid in a fall like this.
I have basically accepted the fact that if you are one sticking and take a free fall with your tether at your ankles you are going to have a bad day no matter what you are on (so let your procedure eliminate this possibility as much as you can by implementing a linesman belt and using it properly at waist level or above). But if you have a marginal fall, that dynamic rope may be your best friend in getting you back to your car, or maybe even finishing out the hunt if everything is cool.
Here is my own personal philosophy with this stuff.
I am going to let procedure and calculated movement deal with 95% of my risk reduction.
I am going to stack the odds in my favor with every piece of gear I choose to make up the other 5%.
So let’s say I have a fall like the one Boyne Bowhunter had described the other day. He was very luckily able to slow his fall by hugging/grabbing the tree on the way down. I think the dynamic rope would greatly aid in a fall like this.
I have basically accepted the fact that if you are one sticking and take a free fall with your tether at your ankles you are going to have a bad day no matter what you are on (so let your procedure eliminate this possibility as much as you can by implementing a linesman belt and using it properly at waist level or above). But if you have a marginal fall, that dynamic rope may be your best friend in getting you back to your car, or maybe even finishing out the hunt if everything is cool.
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