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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Michael Mitrick is a Pennsylvania Game Commissioner from York County. Mitrick said it might be time to require hunters in tree stands to use a safety harness. That possible regulation would only apply ...