How to climb a straight branchless tree with SRT. This is my primary method. I haven't climbed a stick since doing this.Due to my recent misadventure, I am looking at different brackets for my sticks (as well as the obvious correction I noted in my other thread). A little kick out shy.
I know a lot of folks like srt and drt. I have thought that through and not an option I like for me. Limited to trees I can get a line up. A lot of places I hunt have tall straight trees without branches to get a line up. Part of what I like about saddle hunting is any tree, anywhere, anytime. I don't want to carry a climber bottom and that doesn't solve my moving my tether up the tree issue.
Electrical Rope Pusher Pole Success
I used my 10 foot electrical conduit rope pusher to push the rope up a tree. It worked. I shot a doe. Now I can try for the buck. My tether was set at 17 feet which seems kind of low but the leaf canopy was around there so I could not see as far if I went higher. It was so thick in there at...
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