Jim stepps the origiinal versions

[Tajue17]

This is about the original versions,  If any of you remember these climbing steps and you did actually use them let me know (if you remember 😀) what your opinion was. 

[Jack Denbow]

If I remember, and it has been a long time, they didn't grip well on a tree with hard bark. I think they gripped better on trees like pine or ash.
Of course, Jim Stepp would probably disagree with me. I met Jim at L.L. Bean's in Freeport, Maine while I was on the way to a bear hunt.

[marsh chicken]

still got mine in the original bag. I think they had their place. It depended where you hunted. When I used my little spirit lock-on and wanted to go compact I used them several times. As I've gotten older and have control of the property I hunt on I use whatever makes it easier on me. I mostly have every stand already set up. I now want to carry as little as possible but at 72 sometimes you don't want to rough it anymore.

[MCNSC]

I used them quite a bit for several years. Liked that I could take the bottom few off , made it harder for someone else to see,  steal or hunt my stands. I got a LW Assault and sticks and quit using the Stepps. Just felt like the sticks were better and easier. Now that I’m older I probably wouldn’t want to use them at all.

[Tajue17]

Thanks for the posts,,, i found in my storage a loc-on stand with 6 jim stepps packaged into the stand and everything was hockey taped to be quiet.  I faintly remember doing that but didnt remember using them but i think i remember trying to tie a stepp on a tree early in the dark and forgot how to tie that knot.   I then found 3 more full jim stepp bags so i got alot of these but i wondered about exactly what someone mentioned above using two or three on a tree then removing them and hiding in the woods.

Back then i moved on to lone wolf assaults with sticks it was more practical and still is for those pine trees with all the branches you cant really cut because of
Sap. 

I just got curious after seeing them and wondered if anyone still used them. 

[toddster]

I have a set of Jim's original one's and have set from "Wild Edge" which took over when Jim retired.  I used them quite a lot with a Loc On Spirit treestand, as all of my hunting is public and go deep.  They worked really well for me.  I did find had to pay attention little more with hard bark tree's, but once set, they was there.  I never had an issue with them and the "hitch" worked great ever time for getting them rock solid.