I can't believe I posted this 5 years ago!! Just flipped over to first page and saw date.
Bueleye. Good luck on the ractchet step set up around the base. I never trust the ratchet plus no matter how tight I got it, there was some stretch. Be careful about the EZ step rope steps being threaded through a fabric strap. Metal and fabric???..you never know. I weigh 230 and just too big for it I guess .
Thoughts and ramblings
Lone wolf sticks. I used them one season and love them.. Jimmy rigged a double step for the top to use as abase. Probably my second favorite setup. But I hunt the same ole trees every and sometime leave stickson. Well squirrel love them too and eat the knobs off.
Bases....I have put oil on here of different bases from rope rachets to homemade custom half stands but I do use the bottom sometimes of a chain on stand as a base like a climax stand. Man ole man is that a sweet set up for a tree you hunt a lot
Right side shot....I can be a challenge to shoot from 12 to 4 o'clock if you are facing the tree. There are several ways to skini this cat, old days I cut the leg straps off so I could spin my butt in the seat and shoot that way, then sometimes just let the deer walk off and him for a dump shot at 7 o'clock. Or this is what I do now, I grab my grab step and walk around the tree clockwise 2 steps and shoot him them. But you have to get confidence to move on the deer when he is like 70 yards away or further..got to be thinking
The Brace....it really opens the hips around for the right side. It is the same set up as the old trophy line... It is a great setup. I advise you give it a try however Guido does not sell it or endorse it.
Screw in steps... Never like them till I read a book by dr Robert Shepard. He has a drawing of a PVC pipe he use to install his.. Bingo!!!! I love them now I can fly up a tree using them. If I am going to rove the woods with no clue where I am going to hunt till I find a acorn tree that is hot, well I take a dozen steps in a fabric fanny pack and shoulder my Guido, then I am off.love this light way to hunt.
Sweat... U hunt humid hot places, I advise to routinely spray your web with a good scent killer. I do it every hunt. Your back my sweat and you butt. Didn't know I was leaving scent till one of trail camera took a shot 15 sec clip of a doe jumping out of her skin when she smell where I laid my web on the ground 4 hours before...treat it like your clothes and you will be great
Why do they work? Forget about deer busting you and looking up. They just don't anymore. The tree trunk hides you so well if you set up that way. I am throughly convinced if the Wensels had been using this stand when they started bowhunting..well they would be famous by now.,!
Do you need the lineman's belt. I do for crossing limbs but I do not climb with it. If you have ever slipped off a step with just a loose lineman belt holding you. ? You will lose some skin and a tooth or two.. I use the Tether belt to climb. I walk up to the tree an tether around it then hook up.it get my tether just loose enough where I can use it sort of like a lineman and go up the sticks or ladder like that.. I am locked in and this is a extremely safe way to climb... If I use screw in steps then I tether up again but I sewed two extra loops on my tether belt that keep me extremely close to the tree when I screw the steps with most of my wait in the seat of the not my legs.. Man ole man what an easy way to put in steps. Take note if your reading Butch..haha.
Good luck to the Guido mafia guys.. I going up my favorite tree in the morning for my eight year in a Guido... Trying to think how many deer I have bowshot out of my web ?
I change up something every year on my web..but that's just what I do and that's is another thing about Guido web. They are fun to hunt out of.
Topic: Alternative Tree Stand...Guido's Web (Read 9320 times)
