Mobile setups

[Dirtbag]

Just wanted to show my current mobile setup that has been working for me this year.
Lonewolf .5
4 skeletor climbing sticks
Latitude backstraps
Kifaru bane
Trophyline pouch on seat.
Multicam fanny pack

The bane is perfect for extra layers and I can get a set of rattling antlers in the external pouches. The sticks get lashed on the side with the side straps. The latitude backstraps have been ok, need to be broken in. They are a little wide, and stiff. I fill the seat pouch with screw in hangers, and bow rope.
I add the multicam fanny pack on when I need some extra room. My friend sewed for me for everyday use but it also attached really well to the front of the Bane.

What’s everyone else using?

 

[menhaden_man]

Sweet rig! Now I live in southern Appalachia I tend to sit on the ground a lot more than I have in a long time.

 

[Hardly_Hangin]

Looks good, i got some of those lattitude straps for my grandpas old windwalker but i havent tested them yet.

I hunt in southern Appalachia mostly use a JX3, and sometimes sit on the ground. Ill see if i can get a good picture of the jx3 later

 

[rarmitage915]

Nice setup. How do you like those Skeletor sticks? I was between those and XOP X2 sticks. Went with the x2's and have really liked them. They bite into the tree extremely well and the standoff distance from the tree is great. I run 3 of them with a 3-step aider from backwoods mobile gear with the OG lone wolf assault 2 platform. Been very happy with the setup. 3 sticks with the aider get me plenty high. I use the LWCG backpack straps and attach the sticks to the platform with j-hooks.

 

[ShooterGrade]

The setup I've been using for a few years now is the following:

Latitude Method 2 Saddle with 1 dump pouch on my left side. I wear this in unless I'm walking extremely far
-Dump pouch holds lineman's rope, gear strap, and tether. Once I'm in the tree, my lineman's rope, bow rope, and maybe some gloves go in there

Pack is a Mystery Ranch Pintler 38.6L (may be kind of large, but I'll explain in a second)
4 Tethrd Skeletor sticks that strap to the back of the pack (your idea of two on each side is good, I'll need to try that. 4 on the back can be kind of bulky). 4 sticks usually lets me get about 20 feet up. Next year I might play around with going down to 2 or 3 sticks + aider to cut a little weight

Platform is a Trophyline EDP that goes inside my pack. So that, along with layers, snacks, saw, rattle bag and grunt tube led me to a somewhat larger pack. The pack does have a load shelf where I have thought about putting the platform, but honestly haven't messed around with it too much. It would probably be more efficient getting set up if I found a way to secure it there.

Overall I like this setup. I like the way the Pintler opens because it makes it easier to keep things protected in the rain and pretty easy to access without opening lots of different pockets. The main thing I don't like is how bulky it feels when trying to get through really thick brush. I'm already kind of tall, so the pack snags on branches when I'm trying to duck under stuff.

 

[menhaden_man]

Here’s a pic of my mobile setup this morning - filled both my buck tags last two years sitting on it. It’s really light and I think $8.

I do plan on using my summit more often this year, I think it’s the viper aluminum. Pretty easy to carry but would like to rethink how I can tote it in with my daypack and all the goodies.

 

[Dirtbag]

Nice setup. How do you like those Skeletor sticks? I was between those and XOP X2 sticks. Went with the x2's and have really liked them. They bite into the tree extremely well and the standoff distance from the tree is great. I run 3 of them with a 3-step aider from backwoods mobile gear with the OG lone wolf assault 2 platform. Been very happy with the setup. 3 sticks with the aider get me plenty high. I use the LWCG backpack straps and attach the sticks to the platform with j-hooks.

I love the skeletor sticks, one thing though that I'm finding out is the Dynalite rope should be replaced with real amsteel from the get go. I love how the steps fold up and they bite really well though.

 

[Estrn_hntr]

Ditched the saddle and one stick a couple years ago when I picked up a LWCG .5. Hunted out of it a bit and moved to a 1.0 for 90% of my sits. This added a few pounds to what I was carrying when I was one sticking but the comfort is worth it. Figured if 5lbs hurt me to carry I could afford to lose that myself. Killed a pile out of deer the past 2 years in the Appalachians of east tn/west nc with this setup.

1.0
Compact doubles with cable aiders (gets me 16-17’ to the platform)
Half pack
BWMG seat pouch


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[Dirtbag]

Ditched the saddle and one stick a couple years ago when I picked up a LWCG .5. Hunted out of it a bit and moved to a 1.0 for 90% of my sits. This added a few pounds to what I was carrying when I was one sticking but the comfort is worth it. Figured if 5lbs hurt me to carry I could afford to lose that myself. Killed a pile out of deer the past 2 years in the Appalachians of east tn/west nc with this setup.

1.0
Compact doubles with cable aiders (gets me 16-17’ to the platform)
Half pack
BWMG seat pouch


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I followed the same path really. I hunted out of a saddle for years, and although I still like them for certain things, I really didnt feel they were that more versatile than a treestand so I went and bought the .5. I'm more comfortable and move around less in a stand then the saddle.

 

[WCB]

Millennium M7 MicroLite
3 or 4 Shikar standard sticks

either strap it to my Stone Glacier pack or Just through the Millennium cheap shoulder straps over my day pack shoulder straps. No issues regularly hike 1-1.5 miles in with it.

 

[Estrn_hntr]

I followed the same path really. I hunted out of a saddle for years, and although I still like them for certain things, I really didnt feel they were that more versatile than a treestand so I went and bought the .5. I'm more comfortable and move around less in a stand then the saddle.

Same here with the movement. I pulled a 6 hour sit Tuesday and felt just as good when I got out of the stand as I did getting in. No more plantar fasciitis from the saddle and platform to boot.


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[KY_coop]

I use a few different setups for quick 2-4 hour sits. I found saddlehunting once thicker layers are needed was no fun and to bulky. Early/mid season is a mixture of a trophyline wingman onestick and a trophyline edp platform with 3 beast sticks w/ 2 step aiders.
Later season once thicker pants/bibs/ jackets are needed i will keep using the 3 beast sticks but use an xop coldworld stand.
Recently I have been hunting from the ground a little bit more. Especially during rifle season. I can sit inside a tree-line setup with my nrl tripod and waldrop pac seat and be comfortable all day and have ability to make easy shots.

 

[nashian76]

Sweet setup! Do you have any experience with the Hawk Helium sticks? They look a lot like the skeletor sticks, but I haven't been real impressed with the Helium's. I was wondering if the skeletor would be an upgrade if you had any incite?

 

[Dirtbag]

Sweet setup! Do you have any experience with the Hawk Helium sticks? They look a lot like the skeletor sticks, but I haven't been real impressed with the Helium's. I was wondering if the skeletor would be an upgrade if you had any incite?

I don’t have any personal experience with the heliums but I think the skeletors are an upgrade just because of the attachment method when I was shopping for them the hawks used a cam strap.

 

[KY_coop]

Sweet setup! Do you have any experience with the Hawk Helium sticks? They look a lot like the skeletor sticks, but I haven't been real impressed with the Helium's. I was wondering if the skeletor would be an upgrade if you had any incite?

The skeletors are huge step up fron the heliums. I had the heliums as my first sticks. They work but the skeletors are better in every way. I sold the skeletors to get beast sticks just because it was less fiddling and messing with stuff once at the tree but the skeletors were great.

 

[nashian76]

The skeletors are huge step up fron the heliums. I had the heliums as my first sticks. They work but the skeletors are better in every way. I sold the skeletors to get beast sticks just because it was less fiddling and messing with stuff once at the tree but the skeletors were great.

Great, thanks for the info. I will be looking into the skeletors.

 

[TheHammer]

Playing around with a few things this year, one access point I can ride a bike 2-2.3miles depending how far I want to get in before busting through the swamp. I quarter up the deer and pack them out. So that is part of the equation. The sets I use my bike for access with the bow attached to the pack, I have my saddle platform in the meat shelf on my k4 3600. Trying the tree Styx this year. With 3 I can get about 15-16’ w/o rope aiders. Rifle season I am using the xop w/my saddle this weekend here in Wi.

 

[nashian76]

Playing around with a few things this year, one access point I can ride a bike 2-2.3miles depending how far I want to get in before busting through the swamp. I quarter up the deer and pack them out. So that is part of the equation. The sets I use my bike for access with the bow attached to the pack, I have my saddle platform in the meat shelf on my k4 3600. Trying the tree Styx this year. With 3 I can get about 15-16’ w/o rope aiders. Rifle season I am using the xop w/my saddle this weekend here in Wi.

Do you feel that 15'-16' is high enough for you? Where I'm at in west MI, there isn't much cover that low and I feel pretty exposed, at least in a stand.

 

[Dirtbag]

Playing around with a few things this year, one access point I can ride a bike 2-2.3miles depending how far I want to get in before busting through the swamp. I quarter up the deer and pack them out. So that is part of the equation. The sets I use my bike for access with the bow attached to the pack, I have my saddle platform in the meat shelf on my k4 3600. Trying the tree Styx this year. With 3 I can get about 15-16’ w/o rope aiders. Rifle season I am using the xop w/my saddle this weekend here in Wi.

What are your initial impressions of the tree Styx?

 

[TheHammer]

Do you feel that 15'-16' is high enough for you? Where I'm at in west MI, there isn't much cover that low and I feel pretty exposed, at least in a stand.

I like to hunt in the ground typically and move to put myself in better positions, been very successful this way. Having taken 3 over 150 per Wi buck n bear, with this method. This year the grass was just too tall so I had to improvise. I will ratchet strap small trees/willows and stand on a single 3 step hawk helium. Have had great success this way as well, one setup I did I was only able to use 2 tree Styx and was maybe 10’ in a single tree all on its lonesome, for 400yds any direction, as I’ve seen big deer run through the section that tree was in, passed 5 bucks that morning on the 7th.. just be confident in you and your setup, I know here in Wi the public I hunt gets absolutely pounded, but I hear in mi it’s worse and the deer walk around looking up.