To have the best chance at seeing a buck, you must stay in step with the rut's three basic phases when choosing where to place your stands and which days to hunt them.
If you've hunted from a treestand, you've probably had to take at least one shot that you weren't completely comfortable with—they're, more often than not, made to keep you in the tree first, provide an ideal shooting rest, second. One new product is trying to correct that: the LockedOn 360 Mobile Gun Vise.
Hunter Safety System has released a harness in a whole new price point, dubbed the Shadow. An effortlessly simply-yet-rugged design, the Shadow retails for just $49.99.
ThermaSeat has begun to offer quiet replacement seats for treestands. Available in three different thicknesses, and standard or two person models, the cushions feature Silentouch fabric finished in Mossy Oak or Realtree camo.
Millenium’s G100 Shooting Chair is designed with lightweight engineering, which allows it to either go portable, or stay mounted in the blind, while the G200 Shooting Chair is a specialty design for elevated and box stands.