rockytopmojo
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What are your concerns? It is kinda what they are made to do.
Leaving a summit viper in the field for a day or three
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In 2003 I happened to meet a member of the site. He was hunting one of my uncle's farm, I don't know how many years he hunted it. He moved away a couple of years later, so I began hunting it. I didn't want to bring it out of the woods in the event he came back for it.I used it until the farm sold in 2013.
fairchaser
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It's my ritual to remove my stand after every hunt. One evening I left it since I was going back the next morning and a squirrel had chewed a hole in my seat in one night. Just saying a lot goes on in the dark including deer smelling where you've been.
Stumpsitter
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I leave my portables on my property like this every year. I keep a plastic tote underneath the tree with my seat in it. That way it doesn't get wet and I don't forget it. I cover the tote with burlap leaves and sticks , been doing it for years.
Hardly use it anymore but I've left it on the tree and taken the seat off. The good thing about the old API Grand Slam Supreme I had years ago was the seat was a cordura type material so it didn't soak up water. Way better than the summit seats.
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arctic_cat
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Done it many times at my lease. Theft is my only concern on public land but I have done it at LBL for a weekend hunt also
I think it'll be perfectly fine.
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I have left mine multiple times, for long and short periods of time. I hunt a private farm. I would always take a big black construction trash bag, spray off the outside before I put it on the first time. and put it over and around my stand and tie the corners. Always remained completely dry. And never had any issues with animals getting into it. Done it with an API Grand Slam and a Summit Titan.
I've left mine up all season with no issues. However, I had bought 2 of the summit surround seats and left them with the stand. Initially no issues, but last year both of them ended up with squirrel nests. Nasty and tore up, and maggots included.
So I'd say the metal stand is fine. The cushion might not be.
So I'd say the metal stand is fine. The cushion might not be.
mr.big
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I left 1 on a tree in Cumberland Co Ky one night at dark30 and the next morning an hour before daylight it was gone.
TNhunter
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I will leave it In the woods over a weekend hunt. Never left one for over a couple days.
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Pretty sure I've dropped you a pin on the map to grab mine once the next season.I've done if for WAY longer than that.
I had the same thing happen with a two-seater ladder stand that me and our two sons used. I would hope they have remedied that design flaw after this many years, but who knows? I never bought another stand after that, but for other reasons, actually.
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I take my seat with me when I leave mine out.
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Yeah... about that.And by "mine" you mean?
I have left mine out with a cable lock on it and around the tree.
Claims Rep.
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I own 10 Vipers/Goliaths. Nine of them stay in the woods all season, but I never leave the seats on them. No issues leaving a metal stand in the woods over the season. My only real concern is theft, but I cable lock them to the tree.
East TN Bowhunter
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This^^^ The seat I remove everytime I leave so it doesn;t get wet or chewed by a bear. But I didn't consider the zippered arm pads being so dang expensive once they got chewed up! $59 for set of 3! I bought the China versions off Amazon for $17 lol
