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Article: Risky business: Hanging a portable deer stand; Outdoors columnist Dennis Anderson demonstrates.(SPORTS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- October 28, 2009
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Byline: DENNIS ANDERSON; STAFF WRITER
1. Tree stand safety begins and ends with a safety harness or vest. Harnesses are similar to those worn by utility linemen. Vests are adaptations that for many hunters are easier and quicker to put on and take off, especially in the dark. Both (when connected to safety straps attached to trees above huntersAE stands) are designed to catch the hunter if he or she falls and distribute body weight equally. Old-style safety belts that hunters once used to hold them in tree stands can be dangerous in case of a fall because they can pin a hunter against a tree, possibly causing suffocation. But lineman-style safety belts, special ...
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