know and use your safety harness EVERY time you get into a tree...
Make a small Checklist of the things you consider a Neccesity on stand. Release, grunt call, binoculars, rattling antlers, etc...
It's an empty feeling getting halfway to your stand and realizing you forgot something important.
like your release.....:smiley_depressive:
I forgot my whole damn bow at the house once.
Drove to the spot. Changed clothes. Smoked up. Put on my boots... DOH. :smiley_blackeye:
Make sure you have someone dependable to drop off and pick you up... And have a plan for pick up. Like when they are arriving two electric poles till they arrive to that spot honk horn two times. That way you know its clear and haul balls to the road.