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Great pics . That must have been an exhilarating experience ......

Nice pics !

The HSS ( hunter safety system ) is quite comfortable but it has a bit of weight due to the buckles . The vest keeps your shirt / jacket close to your body . Yes , it's a bit pricy but cheaper than a wheelchair . IF folks don't want to use them , that's their business . I would just like to see people be safe .

Make the buck and bedded doe a bit smaller and the sillouette of NY in the middle . Then you will have room for some birds .......

Last year two young men were hunting with a group that was doing a deer drive in the town of Arcadia . They had seen several deer in an open field and fired a number of shots toward a trailer park . One round entered an occupied modular home in the park. The slug went through an exterior wall and came to rest in the master bedroom . Both hunters were arrested and released and scheduled to return to court at a later date . This was done with a shotgun . I wonder how much worse it may have been with a rifle .........

" I don't know " either . I havn't heard of many accidental shootings with rifles . There have been a few erratic shots going into home . Two year's a go , a hunter was shooting at a deer north of Rt 104 in Ontario , NY . He fired a few shots at a deer that was running south of him . The hunter shot a hole through the front window of Phil's Automotive Shop that is on the south side of Rt 104 so the slug (shotgun) traveled across 4 lanes of traffic and uphill . Phil's son , Mike had walked past the window a few seconds earlier . The slug passed through a couple of thin walls , hit a steel beam and dropped . The shooter was arrested . Phil standing next to one of the slug holes .........

Great pics Dave !!!

Uhhhhhhhh , if you get a Robin Hood outside the Bolls-eye , does it count as 2 bad shots ? : .. .. ..

A large platform won't necessarily keep you safe . When that adrenaline rush comes , folks do strange things like forgetting they are 6 - 20 feet in the air . A hunter takes a step or leans to get a better shot and tumbles out . Not a good thing ! I stay in a stand most of the day and sometimes nod off . I have never come close to falling out (that I know of) and don't plan to let it happen .

I have gotten 3 so far .now when the groups tighten up , I go to shooting dots !

I have to leave my quiver on when I hunt with the Parker as it is a 2 piece so it fastens at the top and bottom . >

Congrats on the job . Keep us posted on the clearance items .........

I made a Lock Box for my Moultrie I-40 . I don't put any cameras out that I can't lock up . I used a ammo can to make mine .

It sure looks like it would keep a trail cam secure ! Nice job ....

Magnus makes a serated broadhead . I wouldn't use one but they must be selling them .........

What's funny is when a bowhunter will spend $100 plus for something like an Bowtech Octane and then take it off when in the stand . For most of us the quiver is nothing more than a device to carry the arrows from your vehicle to your treestand / ground blind . Actually , a properly mounted quiver does more to deaden any bow noise . I either hang the bow on a hook , snipped tree limb or tie it to something .

I remember , years ago , when guys used to use just the safety belt . When someone woule slip / fall , they would often end up hanging upside down . If the belt was placed higher on the body and a hunter fell and was hanging , it sometimes put pressure on the chest and shut off the ability to breathe . I wish I had kept the article that someone did on this topic several years ago .

No big deal . Everyone hits a wrong key or may lose their train of thought . I have hit the keys out of sequence and catch most of my errors but not all the time .

Do you leave your quiver on your bow when you are in your treestand ?

I bought a Parker Phoenix EZ-Draw a few years ago . I changed the rest , the sight and added a string stopper .

Bob Foulkrod , one of the Big Game Gurus , said at one of his talks, Anything under 55# use cut on contact only , anything over 55# mechanicals are okay . Soooooo , at 57# , I would think you would be boarder-line . You could use either .

I will be 69 in September . I have a Parker Phoenix EZ-Draw set at 70# and a Ben Pearson TX-4 set at about 62# . I am shooting 430 grain arrows (Arrow Dynamic Big Game Hunters) with a 28" draw . I put a Trophy Ridge drop Zone on the Pearson and a DMI rest on the Parker (G5 makes it now) . DMI rest

I use a Tru-Fire Bear Paw release .........

Yup ---- the deer numbers are down ..........I lost count at 57

A nice thing about using the vest is that it helps keep your clothes close to your body and out of the way .