Treestand Safety Tips

Prioritize Your Harness

With season quickly approaching, you’re likely making plans, checking trailcams and anticipating what this fall will look like for you.

As bowhunters, we’ll typically work through strategies on where to sit based on an animal’s travel patterns and how the wind will play into things. Our focus will be on choosing the best tree or confirming that our faithful stand from years past is still in the right spot.

In the hustle of summer and other distractions, we’ll grab our climbing sticks and stands then head out to start hanging new setups. This is where need to pause and prioritize. Tree stand safety is often an overlooked component of our season preparations as well as our hunts. The temptation to think that you’re strong enough to climb the tree and hang a set without a harness is a dangerous proposition.

If you’re using a stand of any kind, setup a lifeline for your trips up and down the tree. Invest in a good harness for your sits and always stay connected when you’re off the ground. If you’re saddle hunting, always use your lineman’s rope and tether.

A weathered stand strap, rotten bark on a tree, a cracked limb or a wet platform could be the difference between you continuing to hunt or never hunting again. Your family needs you. Your friends need you. Your community needs you. Allow yourself to be inconvenienced by a harness so that you can keep climbing trees and killing bucks and bulls.

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