Yesterday evening I had a bit of a scare.
I hunted a stand I helped a friend hang in 2010. The stand was new, but he left it in the tree and over the past two years the weather played hell on it.
I was hunting for about an hour when that afternoon T-storm rolled in. I debated about riding it out, but when my hunting partner came and got me I took it as a sign from God and decided to get down.
When I stood one of the cables that keep the platform up broke:smiley_deer:...... The other held, but for a minute there it was kinda shaky. I would have been fine because I had on my brand new Gorilla safety harness (great harness and very comfortable BTW). I tried to take the stand down, but it's to corroded and some tools will be needed to get it down. My friend is in college and won't be back until TGiving, but the guy I was hunting with is going to let him and his family know the stand is shot.
The moral of the story is to check your stand out before you climb in it. You never know what could happen.
I hunted a stand I helped a friend hang in 2010. The stand was new, but he left it in the tree and over the past two years the weather played hell on it.
I was hunting for about an hour when that afternoon T-storm rolled in. I debated about riding it out, but when my hunting partner came and got me I took it as a sign from God and decided to get down.
When I stood one of the cables that keep the platform up broke:smiley_deer:...... The other held, but for a minute there it was kinda shaky. I would have been fine because I had on my brand new Gorilla safety harness (great harness and very comfortable BTW). I tried to take the stand down, but it's to corroded and some tools will be needed to get it down. My friend is in college and won't be back until TGiving, but the guy I was hunting with is going to let him and his family know the stand is shot.
The moral of the story is to check your stand out before you climb in it. You never know what could happen.