Do you wear a bino harness in tree stand?

I’ve got a Marsupial harness, but I usually just tuck my binos into a side pocket on my pack. I like the added mobility - until I end up dropping them out of the tree.
 
I have a marsupial, the non-magnetic version that I love. But I get real tired of having all this stuff hanging off me when I’m saddle hunting. Switched to the Rick young last year and it has been great, can get real tight to the chest


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Yes. Compact binos and homemade chest harness because no company makes a harness for my small binos, and I want a covered case b/c I am in snow and wet brush a lot. I dislike the bulk of my larger binos when climbing a tree (i pretty much 100% hang and hunt). Id love to find a better solution, but so far I havent. Long cut above covered a lot of my thoughts. A lot of times I use my Bino’s after I’ve seen a deer, but before I’ve identified what it is in the brush. This usually lets me know whether it’s a shooter or not well before it comes into range, and then I’m already prepared, I have already ranged, already have a plan for when I’m going to draw, etc. To me, it’s a critical piece of equipment for my bow hunting from a stand, I would not go without, even though I really don’t like them on my chest. I will sometimes take the harness off, add a layer, and put it back on at the base of a tree. If I add a layer after I’m already up in the stand for a while, I usually just zip it up over the Bino harness and leave it unzipped a little so I can still access binos.

I use a saddle or a climbing harness style harness, so there is zero interference with a safety harness.
Lets see what have for those compacts.
 
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