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Win A Free Exo Tech Safety Harness!
30 Aug2010
This past weekend I spent a few too many sweaty hours hanging in a tree, clearing out shooting lanes and doing last minute prep on various trees. This was hard work, especially in the 90 degree heat, but it could have been a lot harder. Luckily I was wearing a harness and linemans rope which allowed me to lean back and use both of my hands in the tree. The harness I was using is the new Gorilla Exo Tech and I was fortunate enough to have one sent to me to try. I’ve been loving this harness and it’s going to be super useful this year, that being said, I’m excited to share with you guys a chance to get your very own Exo Tech!
Today we’ll be launching a contest to find out who needs a safety harness the most! If you’ve ever had a close call in your tree stand where you almost fell or did fall out of the stand, we want to hear your story. Whoever has the craziest story or closest call gets a brand new Exo Tech harness sent to your home. The winner will also have their story shared on Wired To Hunt!
All you have to do is write up a quick paragaph or two explaining your incident and then email it to wiredtohunt@gmail.com. The contest will be open til Thursday at midnight EST and the winner will be announced Friday morning. This is a really awesome harness and it retails for $150 bucks! So make sure to send in your story to have a chance to win one of the most comfortable and technologically advanced harnesses to date.
Check out the video below for further details on the harness!
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11 Responses to Win A Free Exo Tech Safety Harness!
Ron Rasch
August 30th, 2010 at 10:00 am
The first time i went hunting, i almost fell out of the tree. My brother took me and we were both sitting in the stand. We werent seeing anything for a while and i fell asleep. i woke up to me falling off the seat, but luckily had a rope and my brother there. Nearly crapped my pants
Mark Kenyon
August 30th, 2010 at 10:42 am
LOL that would happen to you Ron
Jamie Moore
August 31st, 2010 at 9:35 am
Very cool of you to do for sure.. No accidents/near misses here but I’ll tell you most falls happen while climbing and I have more than once slipped off a peg and made a short fall.. There really needs to be an emphasis on staying tied on to a stadic line while climbing..
Daniel McCall
August 31st, 2010 at 6:59 pm
Several years ago after working third shift my friend and I would go bow hunting.One November morning. He had a stand in an old pin oak in a fence row a hundred yards from my stand that was in a pine tree. After working all night I was really tired and the sun was coming up and made it worse. I was trying to stay awake but when I woke up it was too late. I had hit several limbs and was on my way down. Limbs were snapping and cracking as I was falling. When I came to a halt I was wrapped around a limb, head down, bottom up and the seat of my pants ripped. My friend said I looked like a bear falling out of a tree, after he stopped laughing at me. I was very lucky that day to only have a few bruises and cuts. In the early eighties there were not very many safety restraints available.
jim dishman
September 1st, 2010 at 11:41 am
last year i went up to laporte , in. to spend the weekend with my brother hunting. early that sat. morning we hit the woods. i was going to hunt out of my ground blind that morning and hit the tree stand that afternoon. well i set up looking across the field on one end, my brother was climbing a tree in his tree climbing tree stand. as i get set up. i hear this noise. it sounded like it came from where my brother was.i tried to get him on the radio, and then i tried to call on his cell. worried i yelled over to him.”hey you ok over there”? all i could hear was a moan, so i got up and quickly ran over to him, and he was hanging upside down in his stand, with his feet still locked in the bottom part of the climber. i was helpless. i told him to straighten his legs out. he did and it lifted him right up. he said he was just getting ready to latch himself in when he went over the top part of the climber. i think i almost lost my brother that day. hunting was done and no i did not get a picture although i wished i had. because to this day we get a very good laugh from it. but it could have turned out much differently. and we are thankful for the happy turn out.
Bret Brown
September 1st, 2010 at 11:43 am
Last year when I was pulling stands from public ground for the year, I leaned back just a little bit to far and had that OMG this is it feeling. I need to get one for this year and would like my name put in for the contest.
Clyde Wiggins
September 1st, 2010 at 12:03 pm
After my Air Force enlistement was up in ’86 I started bow hunting. First from the ground, then evolving into home made climbing tree stands. These were not the safetest in the woods, but I was okay, because I had a safety harness that consisted of some seat belt material that was wrapped around my waist and the tree.
Late one morning I decided to come down for lunch. I lowered myself about 3 feet when the bottom of the stand slipped about 3 more feet cinching the strap tightly around my chest. Luckily, I was able to right myself and continue down the tree. But not without some cuts and bruises to remember it by.
John Spaine
September 1st, 2010 at 2:06 pm
All I can say is that I work for Gander Mountain and of every vest I have ever tried, this one is hands down the best. Easy to put on, comfortable, and lighter than the competitors “light model”. Although being a bow hunter the single best feature(besides safety) is being able to maneuver with it on and be able to take a shot without the shoulder area bunching up. Great item, great price and a whole lot cheaper than a wheelchair. Buy one today!
Timothy Fox
September 1st, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Last year was my first year out Bow hunting, also hunting from a tree stand. I was learning the ropes and being really careful, because of all the stories about people falling out of there stand. Well I got a chance to shoot a doe and decided that was that. She move to the back side of the tree I was in, I had to lean way out and around the tree for the shot. All was good until I released the arrow and out of the stand I went. Long story short, I got the doe, first deer with a bow, and got a new harness too. I wasn’t going to take the chance of falling in the same one more than once.
Bryan Burgess
September 2nd, 2010 at 8:17 pm
I used to be pretty skeptcal when it came to wearing a safety harness, especially if I was only putting stands up. A near death experience last summer changed my entire outlook on safety harnesses. I was helping my friend put up some stands in different locations throughout his property, along with cutting some shooting lanes. The last stand we had put up was a 20 foot Summit ladder stand in the most promising location on the property. We had just cut some small saplings down along the base of the tree, leaving approximately 6-8 inches of the trees still sticking up from the ground. Not wearing any type of safety harness, I had climbed approximately 15 feet up and attempted to wrap my leg around one of the rungs while I was cutting a branch. The stand shifted slightly inwards, causing me to loose my footing on the rung. I plummetted approximately 15 feet to the ground, striking my collar bone on one of the saplings we had just cut. Fortunately, I was only inches from impacting the sapling with my lower neck. With only a minor injury sustained to the left side of my collar bone, I was treated and released from the hospital. As from that point on, I not only always wear a safety harness, but I encourage everyone to do the same each time you climb in the stand.
RICHARD LAURINEC
December 11th, 2011 at 12:18 am
ORIGINALLY FROM THE CITY OUT ONE DAY HUNTING WITH A BUDDY HE SHOT HIS GUN I SHOT MINE /MIND I NEVER HUNTED BEFORE THE BUCK FROM THE GUN SHOT ME OUT OF THE TREE STAND ON TO THE GROUND/HE GOT A DEER I GOT A SORE RUMP FOR WEEKS