Do you wear a bino harness in tree stand?

[Citrus]

Yes, lightweight and elastic. Sits tight to the chest.

 

[Coopsdaddy]

Prefer not to or use a rick young harness,one less thing to fiddle with.

 

[Tgf99]

Rick young harness

 

[lantern68687]

Yes. Put your harness on before you climb into the stand. Clip in when you’re up there.

 

[PWahlquist]

Just the small bino harness. No pockets

 

[Gnome]

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.

 

[dallas.kc]

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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[Eli.letun]

Nah, leave the binos at home until rifle season. Just have a range finder around my neck.

 

[Coopsdaddy]

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.

 

[JimIsland]

I picked up a Rick Young Harness on the suggestion of a lot of Forum members. I've since bought 2 more and absolutely love them. If I'm brush busting or climbing in a Tree Stand, I tuck them under my shirt to keep from getting snagged. The fit pretty damn tight to your chest......I've have tried a bunch of different ones and none are perfect, however the RY ones are as close as I can get.

 

[Pulleye16]

nope. Binos go in left cargo pocket and range finder in right. Only time I wear a harness is spot-and-stalk hunting from the ground.

 

[Nelsnick]

I like to have my binos with me every time. I do like to use them to search thru the heavy wood cover. It is amazing what you can see with them in the heavy cover.

 

[PDSACA54]

I use an eberlestock recon chest harness with my rangefinder to the left of the main bino pouch. I don’t go to the stand without it.

 

[Macintosh]

Lets see what have for those compacts.

Are you asking about my homemade jobbie? Its just off the shelf parts that I combined into what I thought was a more functional chest harness. I used the non-chest pouch that came with a pair of cheapie binos. Combined it with the cut off shoulder harness from the crappy chest rig that came with my Fury’s. And modified it with better buckles and web to hold the binos. It isnt perfect, Id prefer a different closure more like my magnetic marsupial that opens forward and stays in place open or closed. I just wasnt able to find anything small enough at the time.
It’s about 4” wide and 1.5” thick, about 4.5” high. Next to my 8x30’s for scale.

 

[Coopsdaddy]

I like it.
I’m thinking about using a t&k range finder pouch and doing something similar,with a smaller pouch for range finder.