With plenty of collective experience hunting from tree stands, we’ve been around long enough to remember when hunter safety classes focused mainly on firearm safety. In those days, tree stand safety ...

One of the slickest new products I’ve seen in years is a tree-stand safety harness incorporated in a comfortable and practical hunting vest. It’s one of those things you look at and think, “Why didn’t ...

Cold weather does not cause most tree-stand falls, but it quietly amplifies every mistake you make once your boots leave the ground. Numb fingers, icy rungs, and bulky layers turn small slips into ...

Twenty feet doesn't sound like a terribly high point to fall from, but that's the height at which many fatal tree stand falls occur, said Joe Huggins, hunter education coordinator for the Arkansas ...

But one thing is clear – if every tree-stand user wore a full-body harness and kept it attached to the tree at all times while hunting from or installing or taking down an elevated platform, or ...

FeraDyne Outdoors has recalled tree stands because the safety harness with the stand may fail. The company on Dec. 21, 2023, recalled 50,000 Rhino tree stands that were sold at hunting and supply ...

Officials have expanded a recall of hunter harnesses sold with tree stands because the products can fail, causing the hunter to fall from the tree stand, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission ...

Every deer season, loss of life tragedies could be avoided. We lose hunters each year to falls from treestands. Wearing a safety harness would likely have saved those lives. Safety is paramount when ...

It sure doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know, “Harrisburg, we have a problem.” In this case Harrisburg stands for the Pennsylvania Game Commission, which has many problems. The most frustrating ...