The view from the top is usually better!
White-tailed deer hunters who've employed treestands for at least 30 years tend to fall into two categories: those who had or nearly had a treestand mishap and those who lie and say they didn’t.
The old stands, especially the “climbers,” were fraught with design issues that left them prone to failing, slipping and falling. I recall one old climbing stand I had that used a boomerang, V-shaped b...