So.......What happened to Warren and Sweat? Anyone know? There was a lot of meat brought to the ground out of some of their stands and I found there stands simple, light, and effective. Just a brainstorming / thought/ question.
So.......What happened to Warren and Sweat? Anyone know? There was a lot of meat brought to the ground out of some of their stands and I found there stands simple, light, and effective. Just a brainstorming / thought/ question.
Man, I loved my old Warren and Sweat Rifleman stand. Like you said, very simple and lightweight. Kilt a lot of game out of that thing!
I would imagine that, like a lot of old school stand manufacturers, they didn't change with the technology and just faded away. Belts and straps instead of metal v-bars. I climbed a lot of trees in an old rifleman.
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My uncle still has his cottonwood. Still uses it.
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Warren and Sweat Rifleman had a lot of positives to it. I can't think of too many negatives.
I still have my rifleman. Haven't used it in years since I don't hunt with a gun anymore. I think my son still uses it though.
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I had one my grandma bought me for my birthday when I was 13. I don't remember what it was called but you could climb and face the tree or slide the seat up to the tree and sit facing away. It was light as hell and I could shimmy up the tree in no time. It burned up in a garage fire. If that stand could tell some stories...
I remember when the first face-the-tree stands started coming out and those things were a God send over the old Baker stands. I don't remember who made them but they were aluminum square tubing painted green. My hard headed brother kept hunting out of a Baker stand for several years. I remember climbing with them was one thing but it was harder for me trying to come down.
a rifleman was my favorite stand for many years- mine was stolen out the back of my truck while in a C store one day- they were considered light duty, the rifleman had a max weight capacity of 225 lbs
Still hunt out of a rifleman a lot.
Our buddies from the mountains were building us climbers (in the style that Buckshot Cadillac made popular much later)before Warren and Sweat came along. Iirc W&S were sued out of existance when several people were hurt and killed. I bought a bunch of Cottonwood and Rifleman for Oaklawn when I started managing the place but found them to be pretty noisy and crappy compared to the round tubed style the mountain boys had been building us for years. Damn those Bakers...
The Warren and Sweats can indeed be noisy, especially on a thick barked scaly pine.
Also, they have a tendency to spin on the tree with a little angle on it, and can be pretty dangerous.
Another draw back is the metal tubing between your legs make it harder to get in and out of at times than the newer styles.
my first climber was the face the tree version, couldnt wait to get it. hunted out of it couple of times and couldnt wait to get rid of it. sold that squeaky bastard and drove the hour to Gradys for a brent hunt.
never looked back.
last yr i did upgrade to a summit
Last edited by cburns; 10-05-2016 at 03:32 AM.
I found one someone was using to poach a lease I used to hunt, figured I'd use it a time or two. Was a nice stand, once deer season was over and it was the last year I had the lease before they developed it all, i went and put it back on the same tree I took it from. Should have left the guy a note, nice stand. Haha
I used one numerous times. I have no fondness for them. I moved on to API and Summit and never looked back.
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