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Sit drag system

e1han

e1han

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Location
SE Michigan
Is anyone modifying sit drags to be weight bearing? I figure it’s the cheapest choice for saddle hunting, and I’m only 130 lbs soaking wet. However I’d prefer not to have to use a RCH. Hunting in Michigan means I may be hunting in light pants all the way up to giant insulated bibs, and I don’t think a rock climbing harness would be capable of adjusting to that much of a size difference in pants.
 
My petzl gym harness does. I just like to know I’m completely safe though.

If you’re going to mod a sitdrag in that fashion I would just make a saddle from scratch.
 
Wirrex said:
My petzl gym harness does. I just like to know I’m completely safe though.

If you’re going to mod a sitdrag in that fashion I would just make a saddle from scratch.
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You don’t find any issue when wearing thicker clothes?
 
Not any more than I would expect lol. Way more of an issue in climbing with the clothes.
 
I put the rock climbing harness under my big layers and just run the safety line out the top of the pants or through the zipper.

I like the concept of everything being backed up. The sitdrag is connected to the bridge and tether. The rock harnesses connected to a separate line entirely. That way I'm confident and don't have to worry. A fall even from a low height due to faulty equipment would be the end of that...

I've had a scary slip. It was when climbing, and the lineman's belt caught me but that was enough for me to say everything's always going to be double backed up!
 
This will be my 3rd year hunting with just the sit drag. I ditched the RCH just a few hunts in, no issues. If you have trouble trusting it by 2 and sew them together.
 
e1han said:
Is anyone modifying sit drags to be weight bearing? I figure it’s the cheapest choice for saddle hunting, and I’m only 130 lbs soaking wet. However I’d prefer not to have to use a RCH. Hunting in Michigan means I may be hunting in light pants all the way up to giant insulated bibs, and I don’t think a rock climbing harness would be capable of adjusting to that much of a size difference in pants.
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I’ve been using a rch for the last two years with my hang on and I use it with warm weather clothes to my whitetail extreme pants and parks. It adjusts plenty.
 
I wear the rch under thick clothes as well. My bibs have an opening to access a pocket in pants underneath the bibs. I just run my tree tether out of that opening. Works great!
 
I'm also 130lbs soaking wet and using a sit drag with a rch this year. I only hunted with this setup a handful of times last year, but I was fine in bulky, winter gear. Like others, I wore the harness under my outer layer. I don't trust the sit drag without a rch. Crap happens and it happens fast.

As an aside, my plan is to get a used saddle next year. I suspect there will be a lot of people selling theirs after a season...
 
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