What was the name?

[Rom120]

Im going to call Cap Atwood to see if those rates still apply......

[jim ratcliff]

i saw the guarantee at a hunting store once,hanging on the wall! the stand was guaranteed to assist in the breaking of bones,scraping the hide of ones self and giving new meaning to "death from above"    
 (DISCLAIMER: NOT SURE ABOUT THE INFO. ABOVE BUT IT SOUNDED FUNNY!!!    )

[VTer]

What are you reading there George........that's a crossbow article!

[jbuck9]

You guys are going too laugh your tails off on this one but true as Iam sitting here banging on this keyboard, I worked out of lufin Texas for 20 years, and a fella at work had just finished up sum tree stands he built so said here you can have my baker, well off i go into the piney woods of east Texas, with my new too me baker and Bob Lee recurve, up I go Id say 20 feet , well fellas I didint even get chance too pull my bow up when I start free lancing down this tree
and I mean I was moving I quick decide to bear hug this tree, yea right, I am comming down tearing hide off my fingers tips an palms, but the worst part I tore my left nipple off, I laugh my tail off about it now, but back then it left streaks in my undies, my buddies from Texas still email me every archery season too see if my nipple ever grew back, well now at 61 I hunt from the ground mostly , but then most of my hunting has been from the ground, worst part about the entire thing is that it put a stop too
my archery season I couldint hold the bow my palms were that tore up, Yes the good ole baker
great firwood.

[bowhunterfrompast]

They should of named it "Profanity"  

[Three Arrows]

Baker belly scraper

[**DONOTDELETE**]

How would they seriously come up with a name like "Profane"?

[Eric Krewson]

I think every one who owned a baker has a story to tell about a rapid decent from a tree.

I rode one down, sustained minor injuries but had a very close call to being in a wheelchair for the rest of my life. I took the stand home and beat it to pieces with a sledge hammer so no one else could get hurt by it.

[DennyK]

They should have called it Fruit of the Loom wrecker.

[Tioga]

T'was a Baker. I once was left hanging from the hand climber after the platform came off my feet and ratcheted its way down the shagbark hickory I was climbing. Was a rough ride 12 feet down for sure.    

[South MS Bowhunter]

jbuck9,

Now that's a fact, I had the same experience with One when i was about 18.  Never felt comfortable in one after that and used it very little from that time on....err...well did your nipple grow back   :confused:

[Precurve]

None of you guys used safety straps?  Not that it would have helped much...here's my story:  I climbed about 18' up this strategically located tree, took my safety strap out of my pocket and attached one loop around the tree and one loop around me.  Then I eased out of the foot straps, turned around and pulled my bow up.  Got my quiver situated and an arrow on my string, and began my vigil.  Everything was fine for about 5 minutes when I must have shifted my weight slightly to my heels, and my stand dropped to the bottom of the tree!!  So I'm hanging up there like a sack of potatoes with the air getting squeezed out of my lungs and no one within a mile or more of me.  I threw down my quiver and bow, reached around behind me and grabbed my strap and pulled myself up, wrapping my legs around that tree for all I was worth.  I loosed up the strap wrapped around the tree and slid it down as low as I could, then lowered myself down a foot or so, slid the strap down again and kept repeating this until I was back on the ground.  I'm lucky I was in good shape back then; if that would've happened today I probably wouldn't have had the strength to get myself turned around.

Dave

[Widowbender]

I had another name for my Baker..."@#$%^&*!"

[Don Stokes]

I took a friend out who had not hunted deer, and put him in my Baker, while I hunted a hundred yards away in my Mighty Mite, which I had converted to the face-the-tree type by cutting the base in half and... anyhow, I heard his stand go ratcheting down the tree at about 10:00. I waited to see if he called out, or moaned, or anything, but didn't hear any sign of distress, so I sat a while longer. I figured he was either dead, in which case it didn't matter if I waited, or he was hurt, in which case I probably would have heard him made some noise. A little while later he showed up, and told a tale about standing up to stretch by pulling up on the hand climber. He had to hug the tree while holding the hand climber to get back down.

Those were the days!

Dan Quillian claimed to have marketed the first "climbing" kind of stand, but I don't know what he called it.

[KentuckyTJ]

My first year as a bowhunter was 1983 and those damn things almost killed my brother and I both multiple times in the next few years after that. Thanks for the flashback George. Walking threw town you could tell all the bow hunters by the scabs on the inside of their arms from trying to hang on tight during one of those rapid descents.

[buckeye_hunter]

That was before my time! I'm claiming prejudice!!!

-Charlie

[joe skipp]

Thats the Stand that forced me to hunt from the ground in 1975....happened to move my feet back to far and down we came..Sore ribs, bumps, bruises....yep...never again.          :eek: