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Who Wants Nothing To Do With One Sticking?

I tried the one sticking. It just wasn't as easy as I thought. I feel like tree selection is important and can be tricky with odd trees. My least favorite thing is not being able to quickly climb down and then come right back up again. Im still a fan of my WE Stepps.

There's a place for it though. I could see having 3 sticks and just using the top stick to get an extra move or two to dial in your height. But for now, its WE stepps for me.
 
HuntNorthEast said:
What have you found is the best way to no stick. Or best combo I should say. I tied some webbing to my predator tonight and it was definitely just as easy to climb that way vs a 1 stick. Is there any strap tricks to make moving of the platform better? And what aiders work the best? Ill be rappelling down.
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I don't own any commercially available equipment so I'm maybe not the best person to ask
 
I’ll use either method depending on how far I’m walking in, mood, etc. The mini beasts are nice and light and I can get up a tree quicker and without breaking a sweat with multiple sticks. I work up a sweat one sticking unless I take short breaks and I still end up using a lineman’s rope. I can also carry just 2 or 3 sticks and do a combination of both methods. I always use a knaider and swaider with either method and I still rappel down and grab my sticks along the way. If I need to get down and take a power dump, I can rappel down, take care of business, and go right up the sticks using my rappel rope and safeguard.


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Ckwilli said:
I’d like to try it but the start up cost is way too much. It’s hard to justify the expense. Especially since I’m kind of funding my kids hunting and fishing also.
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The cost is too high?

Do you have a stick? Do you have a tether? You have everything you need. All the other extra "stuff" is just that... Extra.
 
BuffaloBill said:
What if you need to dump? You rappel down and then one stick back up? Serious question. Sounds annoying.
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One sticking is very fast and easy if you don’t have to advance the tether. I found this out when my paracord to pull down my rope came off at the end of a hunt.


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I did some previous research on this website and of the saddle hunters were like 60s & one is in 70s doing the stick climbing method. I watched One guy on YouTube I believe this guy was in his early 60s and he climbed 20ft in like 3 minutes or 4 minutes.
This just my opinion I don't think you have to be good athletic to do the stick climbing method. I need get therapy on my ankle and still can do the one stick climbing method. Its Its not a real bad injury but it doesn't feel right still.

When I first tried it felt a little scary to be honest. If you can get past that it's great climbing method. I am walking sometimes a good 2 miles sometimes round trip. I am going piggyback of some others said . You have t0 practice on slanted trees trees with branches big trees and small trees. For me finding the the right aider was very important makes a huge difference. I would use mini beast stick. Personally I would never want go back to carrying all sticks again. I will be honest I am ok one stick climbing method not good because of recurring injury didn't get practice as much as I wanted to.

If you develop good technique I don't think it's that strenuous. Other the fear factor and practicing I dont see much downside.
 
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Country said:
Admittedly, I haven't really gave one sticking a fair shake, but I just don't want to. I like the ease of going up the tree with sticks. I even like the ease of using the stock buckles on my lone wolf sticks. I just feel like it's tighter, safer, and faster. A couple of times I tried to get a few extra of feet out of my sticks by one sticking and it was a nightmare. Coming down was even worse, granted I wasn't repelling. I also feel like you're significantly increasing your risk of a fall by repelling down. Kind of like when you walk out onto thin ice and fall through. Makes no sense to take a different way out from a safety standpoint. You know the way in is solid and it worked once already. More power to you if you like one sticking. It's fun to try new stuff and if you find something that works, go for it!
Oh, and I have a hard time not constantly advancing up the tree. Two steps forward, one step back. Can't do it.
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I disagree on the rappel part. I feel it’s the safest method out of a tree when done right. I personally feel a person is way more likely to miss a step or slip off a step coming down a tree in the dark than a person having a rappel mishap. I plan on rappelling no matter what climbing method I choose.


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sdoyle1 said:
I disagree on the rappel part. I feel it’s the safest method out of a tree when done right. I personally feel a person is way more likely to miss a step or slip off a step coming down a tree in the dark than a person having a rappel mishap. I plan on rappelling no matter what climbing method I choose.


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I would also like to mention using a tethered rope is safer than using a linesmen rope
 
Patriot38 said:
I tried the one sticking. It just wasn't as easy as I thought. I feel like tree selection is important and can be tricky with odd trees. My least favorite thing is not being able to quickly climb down and then come right back up again. Im still a fan of my WE Stepps.

There's a place for it though. I could see having 3 sticks and just using the top stick to get an extra move or two to dial in your height. But for now, its WE stepps for me.
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One important factor about one stick climbing method is you do have practice very important if you don't put the time your more likely to have problems.
 
It seems like in the last few weeks I e seen a bunch of comments between here and Facebook from people who have never even tried one sticking. They claim how it’s a bad choice for a climbing method. I have a hard time giving any credibility to a comment from someone who’s never tried it. I’m almost 50 and overweight and find one sticking fairly easy. Although I have more sticks I can’t see myself ever carrying more than one.


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kidneystones_3000 said:
I would also like to mention using a tethered rope is safer than using a linesmen rope
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I don’t totally agree with this statement when it comes to one sticking.
A tether at times could have as much as 5 to 7’ of slack in the line between moves one sticking with aiders.


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sdoyle1 said:
It seems like in the last few weeks I e seen a bunch of comments between here and Facebook from people who have never even tried one sticking. They claim how it’s a bad choice for a climbing method. I have a hard time giving any credibility to a comment from someone who’s never tried it. I’m almost 50 and overweight and find one sticking fairly easy. Although I have more sticks I can’t see myself ever carrying more than one.


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I am 49 too I believe its more of the psychological factor hanging from tree looks intimidating for most people. It feel a little for me at first.
 
Treehopper2 said:
I don’t totally agree with this statement when it comes to one sticking.
A tether at times could have as much as 5 to 7’ of slack in the line between moves one sticking with aiders.


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I could be wrong but I felt like he was addressing my rappelling comment. In that case rappeling on a tether should be safer than climbing down sticks with a linemans. When ascending there’s definitely the opportunity to get a bunch of slack in the tether. I personally keep my slack to a minimum I tend my tether with my safeguard while climbing my aider steps then once I’m on solid steps on the stick I advance my tether.


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sdoyle1 said:
I could be wrong but I felt like he was addressing my rappelling comment. In that case rappeling on a tether should be safer than climbing down sticks with a linemans. When ascending there’s definitely the opportunity to get a bunch of slack in the tether. I personally keep my slack to a minimum I tend my tether with my safeguard while climbing my aider steps then once I’m on solid steps on the stick I advance my tether.


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Ok thank you for straightening that out I just saw a quote I think and it was late lol


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Most of the people I’ve seen do one sticking are on straight trunk smooth bark trees. Very easy setup and a lot quieter than most normal hunting scenarios. That’s why I don’t like it...you can’t do it a tree with multiple branches, a severe lean or ruff bark without making a lot of noise. Real life hunting scenarios are what I am looking for.
 
sdoyle1 said:
It seems like in the last few weeks I e seen a bunch of comments between here and Facebook from people who have never even tried one sticking. They claim how it’s a bad choice for a climbing method. I have a hard time giving any credibility to a comment from someone who’s never tried it. I’m almost 50 and overweight and find one sticking fairly easy. Although I have more sticks I can’t see myself ever carrying more than one.


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i wounder if half of them even climb trees.i didnt know so many tree climbers where scared of hieghts.the only methods i dont use just arnt relivent to where i live. i used to climb a tree with no gear to cut down the branches so i could come back and use climbing gear .then it dawned on me.i just cut down free steps.climbed a tree earlier with no gear .none of the branches where grade 8 steel..............i know some people just cringged with fear and inhailed there jeans reading this.maybe part of their chair.but if they just p.m .me i will mail a box of tissues and tell them its ok to be scared
 
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Most of the people I’ve seen do one sticking are on straight trunk smooth bark trees. Very easy setup and a lot quieter than most normal hunting scenarios. That’s why I don’t like it...you can’t do it a tree with multiple branches, a severe lean or ruff bark without making a lot of noise. Real life hunting scenarios are what I am looking for.
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just isnt relivent to my trees either.i thought of trying it a decade ago.dont need to.to lazy to do things i dont need to.. some people dont mind hanging there to move the same stick ,some dont mind carying more sticks ,and some dont mind climbing sticks the tree provides.if i dont need any sticks .i dont want any.
 
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