I use my regular tree strap with the harness to get up for the initial setting of the static line above my stand. However, this is a slower process to keep lifting and adjusting the strap, and I’ve been busted by several deer that came through while making these lengthy ascents.įor a faster solution, when I have trees that I climb often or when setting up a lock-on where allowed on public lands, I set a safety rope high in the tree. I attach a wide strap to the tree that I slide up and down as I climb. I’m constantly on the move every week on various tracts of land, so I use a basic, full-body, lightweight strap harness.
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Soon after, I bought my first tree climber and learned how to use the harness that came with the purchase. Not having a clue what a safety harness was, I remember lassoing my boat’s anchor rope around my torso and bungee strapping that climber to the tree for the next hunt, hoping to avoid another roller-coaster ride experience. On one of the first times I used that decades-old, smooth, V-style metal climber, it nearly slid all the way down a tree with me in it. It wasn’t long before I found out that climbing stands could be very dangerous. I was given an old climber from someone’s attic and set off into the woods alone to down a deer. I had to learn how to deer hunt on my own, without guidance. Growing up, I was fortunate not to find out the hard way about harnesses. This year, on my week-long hunting vacation, I had to slide down a tree like a bear not once, but twice, from scary situations where my climbers failed.
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