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Season destroyed by the beast stand

Well as I was up all night and ruminated on what happened, what I could have changed and done differently, the fact of the matter is the bracket played a big role.
But being on my phone likely played the biggest role.
The buck must have come from the mountain laurel that was well over 80 yards behind me. Had I been alert and ready to rock, I'd of had plenty of time to prepare for the shot. Not notice him when he was 15 yards behind me.
Just another great lesson learned a very hard way. The phone stays off and in the bag now from here on out.
 
I don't have the Beast stand but do have the sticks. I had the first of the 24" ones. The antler bracket did not have a chamber. I sold them and got the 18" ones, the bracket on those had the chamber. I actually thought they were so you didn't cut yourself and originally had them on backwards until I found out the chamber was to allow the bracket to slide into place. I am surprised that chamber didn't carry over to the Beast stand.
 
sdonx said:
I don't have the Beast stand but do have the sticks. I had the first of the 24" ones. The antler bracket did not have a chamber. I sold them and got the 18" ones, the bracket on those had the chamber. I actually thought they were so you didn't cut yourself and originally had them on backwards until I found out the chamber was to allow the bracket to slide into place. I am surprised that chamber didn't carry over to the Beast stand.
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The bracket needs to be dulled dramatically so it doesn't penetrate the tree near as much, it needs chamfering out of the box not me making them with a file.
 
bigmike23 said:
The bracket needs to be dulled dramatically so it doesn't penetrate the tree near as much, it needs chamfering out of the box not me making them with a file.
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I don’t think its the bracket. The issue I think is the platform. Those teeth need an angle on them. They don’t bite in and just rub up and down the tree squeaking and creaking as the stand flexes and moves. Post should probably move out a bit also to get a harder cam. Its to close to the tree.
 
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bigmike23 said:
Well as I was up all night and ruminated on what happened, what I could have changed and done differently, the fact of the matter is the bracket played a big role.
But being on my phone likely played the biggest role.
The buck must have come from the mountain laurel that was well over 80 yards behind me. Had I been alert and ready to rock, I'd of had plenty of time to prepare for the shot. Not notice him when he was 15 yards behind me.
Just another great lesson learned a very hard way. The phone stays off and in the bag now from here on out.
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It took a while and I give you credit for admitting it. Millions of phone Zombies walking around every day. If you are playing with your phone you are not hunting.
 
enkriss said:
I don’t think its the bracket. The issue I think is the platform. Those teeth need an angle on them. They don’t bite in and just rub up and down the tree squeaking and creaking as the stand flexes and moves. Post should probably move out a bit also to get a harder cam. Its to close to the tree.
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It sounded like the bracket but you could be right. Regardless of what's happening I'll be in my tried and true assault 2 the rest of rifle and late season. My confidence is shattered with this stand. And you know how much praises I was giving this thing.
 
bigmike23 said:
It sounded like the bracket but you could be right. Regardless of what's happening I'll be in my tried and true assault 2 the rest of rifle and late season. My confidence is shattered with this stand. And you know how much praises I was giving this thing.
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Ok, I get it. The situation you experienced was crap. But you have a real learning experience here, that is no matter how much money you spend on a piece of equipment, it may still take a little personal touch to be hunt ready. IMHO there is not one pice of equipment sold that you can take in thw field an never have a quirk, or squeak or something that could ruin a sit.
When I bought my open shot, I removed thw cushion, laced on a piece of lauan and glued yoga may to the top of it, and wrapped in 550 cord/hockey tape/ rope to quiet it. On to find that I needed to file the teeth to make it bite more.
Should you have had such high confidence in your gear? Well that depends on the effort you put into practicing and prepping your gear in the preseason. But if that confidence was simply ther because of the price tag and esteem of the brand well, this is a hard lesson to learn. Don't sell your stand, play with it, learn it, tweak it, use it.
 
ThePennsylvanian said:
Ok, I get it. The situation you experienced was crap. But you have a real learning experience here, that is no matter how much money you spend on a piece of equipment, it may still take a little personal touch to be hunt ready. IMHO there is not one pice of equipment sold that you can take in thw field an never have a quirk, or squeak or something that could ruin a sit.
When I bought my open shot, I removed thw cushion, laced on a piece of lauan and glued yoga may to the top of it, and wrapped in 550 cord/hockey tape/ rope to quiet it. On to find that I needed to file the teeth to make it bite more.
Should you have had such high confidence in your gear? Well that depends on the effort you put into practicing and prepping your gear in the preseason. But if that confidence was simply ther because of the price tag and esteem of the brand well, this is a hard lesson to learn. Don't sell your stand, play with it, learn it, tweak it, use it.
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No won't sell it, just take the bracket and have it melted down into a mold of the middle finger and send it to infalt
 
bigmike23 said:
Well as I was up all night and ruminated on what happened, what I could have changed and done differently, the fact of the matter is the bracket played a big role.
But being on my phone likely played the biggest role.
The buck must have come from the mountain laurel that was well over 80 yards behind me. Had I been alert and ready to rock, I'd of had plenty of time to prepare for the shot. Not notice him when he was 15 yards behind me.
Just another great lesson learned a very hard way. The phone stays off and in the bag now from here on out.
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Harder than quitting smoking or sticking to a diet. That **** is addicting. And hunting I'd 99.9% painful boredom and 0.1% intense action. At least in my POS state.
 
Not here to be a downer but this is probably an unpopular opinion……

We as hunters face adversity every time we go out. Your stand didn’t ruin your season, it ruined a single hunt. All you are doing is starting yourself further behind for your next hunt with your mindset. Get your orange on. Sit on the ground, in a stand, lay in the grass, whatever you do don’t sit on the couch. Get in the woods. You learned you have a weak point in your setup at an unfortunate time. Patch it, fix it or chuck it and get back in the woods.


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I had been hunting public land in LA for six years bow only with no success. Suddenly a doe appeared as I was literally giving my hunting partner my location (we were on an island and alone.) a big doe came up and I stood in my mini viper. The loudest creak ever caused the deer to look right at me. This began what felt like a 10 minute staring contest with me unable to draw. I feel your pain. I hunted many more times out of that stand and never saw another deer in it. There are people with much worse luck than you. Adapt and overcome. Get back out there.
 
Man that sucks. That beast stand sure needs to go back to the drawing board. I couldn't get rid of mine quick enough
 
bigmike keep plugging! PA public ain’t as easy as a lot of people make it out to be. Some people think we walk in find deer and shoot em. Keep pushing and capitalize durin gun season!! The crazy starts Soon with concurrent buck and doe :rolleyes:…I’ll be down 12/3 until it wraps up.
 
Get well card lyrics are not specialty, here is my take, dump that thing ASAP, I’m sure 99% of people will say this or that is the bomb and maybe for them it is, you paid $600 to not deal with nonsense and now your confidence in that stand is gone, screw that adios, deer have enough going on for them nuclear powered sense of smell, eyes like superman, even if I was guaranteed the fix was permanent and that thing would never pop or squeak again I would still send it down the road, I know most won’t agree with this, but I don’t really care, I have zero tolerance for stuff like this. Kill that buck soon and post some pictures, hopefully it’s that mountain buck you mentioned a couple weeks ago.
 
Topdog said:
Get well card lyrics are not specialty, here is my take, dump that thing ASAP, I’m sure 99% of people will say this or that is the bomb and maybe for them it is, you paid $600 to not deal with nonsense and now your confidence in that stand is gone, screw that adios, deer have enough going on for them nuclear powered sense of smell, eyes like superman, even if I was guaranteed the fix was permanent and that thing would never pop or squeak again I would still send it down the road, I know most won’t agree with this, but I don’t really care, I have zero tolerance for stuff like this. Kill that buck soon and post some pictures, hopefully it’s that mountain buck you mentioned a couple weeks ago.
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It's one of many mountain bucks but yes, that was the area I asked for help on. I'm going to use the assault 2 the rest of the season
 
EricS said:
That definitely sucks.

There’s a group of guys on here who have been working tirelessly for years to minimize the amount of metal they take in the woods.
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