Talking about falling I fell while climbing up when I was 16. Luckily I was only about 6 feet up. I still prefer a ladder stand if I'm gonna climb but have killed more deer from the ground in either a "hut" or blind.
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I am thinking on a hut also.Found one I kinda like,but they dont have floors in em.
Same here. I'm sure the meds took their toll. Quality of life is worth it..? I think so. My uncle had a lot of good years hunting from a golf cart after he fell. He killed his biggest deer while hunting from a golf cart. All of us around him learned a lot about golf carts, during and afterwards...They are quiet and they do not smell. Perfect for the sandy soil I hunt in south Ga.
I guess I was lucky with my tree stand accident. I was inch worming up a tree several years ago with a cheap climbing stand. I was using one of those old school wrap around, rubber band looking safety straps and the bottom of the stand disappeared out from under me. I fell about a foot and a half or two before the strap stopped my fall. It doesn't sound that far but it was enough to dislocate several ribs and obviously knocked the wind out of me. I was lucky enough to be able to get a toe hold on the bottom platform to loosen up the strap and come back down the tree. Yall be careful out there!
use to be we only had a foot part to climb with.You hugged the tree with your arms an inch wormed up ,lots of scraped up chests.You younguns will never know
Some of us 40-something’s my have used one a time or two....my Father made hand climbers for ours that
doubled as a seat.
made out of bed rails welded up and once you carried it in it stayed there
I borrowed one of those years and a nice bck wandered in but I couldn’t take the shot because that old wood platform was squeaky as heck , looking back on it I should have never left the ground on that relic
