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Team 9 Thread

Aerohunter Kestrel with a fixed webbing bridge. 5 Wild Edge Stepps and a knaider. Predator platform, squirrel steps ROS if I need to go in real light. I’m don’t cut every ounce, but prefer to go in light.
 
This’ll be my rookie season in the saddle too. I was trying a few different setups this spring and summer. I think I’ve settled on an Overwatch Transformer with an EWO ultimate one stick topped with a Monarch platform. Tonight was my first practice climb… it was sure kicking my butt. But I think it’ll improve with practice.
 
Marmuzz said:
This’ll be my rookie season in the saddle too. I was trying a few different setups this spring and summer. I think I’ve settled on an Overwatch Transformer with an EWO ultimate one stick topped with a Monarch platform. Tonight was my first practice climb… it was sure kicking my butt. But I think it’ll improve with practice.
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What seemed to be the most difficult part?
 
Stepping… up. I’d been practicing one-sticking on a 20” Hawk Helium with a single 18” aider all summer and pretty much had that down pretty well. I’m now trying a 15” stick with the angled Monarch and a double 17” aider. Transitioning between aider steps, it felt like they were waaay too long and I could hardly get my leg up into the next step. Then once on the DoubleStep, it felt like I could hardly step up to the Monarch without smashing a shin. (Fwiw I was climbing with knee pads. I might ditch those next climb. Between them and my Lineman’s belt everything was getting caught and snagged.) lol that probably sounds ridiculous… just nothing seemed efficient and fluid.
 
Sat in a tree in the yard tonight for an hour in the saddle. Beautiful 54 degrees and dropping. Felt good. Saturday is opener and work demanded mandatory overtime. Sat in the new hammock man it doesn’t matter the position this saddle is pure gold. Probably won’t get out till late next week.
 
Petrichor said:
What are y’all’s setups for season?
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I change it up daily.

Saddle is a Cruzr Xc and some days I use a predator and others I use a beast stand as a platform / use the saddle as a harness especially when I have to climb a tree with tons of branches where I want to hunt.
 
3rd year saddle hunting:

Phantom saddle
Predators platform
3 modified lone wolf sticks, double steps with 1 webbing aider sew into the bottom of step step. Daisy chain rope mod to attach to the tree (well worth the upgrade).

Occasionally i will cut out 1 lone wolf and I will carry in a stick with a cam cleat and a 5 step aider so I can get much higher with my first stick.

Going to mess around with 1 sticking this year but still not 100% dialed in on that set up.
 
Since my tree is pre set with bolts for tomorrow morning I’m not carrying a pack and seeing how little I can take with me. Have a south wind predicted which is super favorable for my set up.
 
Saw an 8 point at 7:02 that made its way perfectly broadside in front of me by 7:15. It needed to take two more steps forward but it didn’t happen. It stopped dead at 12:00 from the tree and stood surveying ahead for 30-60 seconds. I had positioned my body to shoot to 11:00 and didn’t want to move because I thought he’d see me. I was trying to be patient and wait for the shot but retrospectively a slight shift to angle my body to 6:30-7:00 and I’d have had a 15 yard chip shot. I really didn’t expect him to take a hard right turn and walk directly away from me. Probably a 100 inch 8 point with an ear to ear spread.
 
Took my mini shikar with angled scout and ultimaider to hunt two oaks I refer to as the prehistoric oaks. They’re over six feet in diameter and they’re the only two oaks I’ve seen for hundreds of yards on this side of the hill. I climbed a tree forming a triangle between the two, one fifteen yards to my 11 and the other 25 yards to my 2:00. There’s a rub 10 yards to my left that I saw as I walked in. First time hunting with a single stick and rappelling down. I had the gear last year but always just put my spurs back on and climbed down because I didn’t want to carry all the extra stuff. We’ll see if my opinion of that changes as the season goes on because I don’t really have another climbing method anymore so I’m forcing myself to do it.
 
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