Knots for Saddle Hunting 

One of the most useful videos on RU-vid.

You’re a born teacher! Excellent video! You’ve got a humble, inviting personality, well spoken and delivered great information! Keep doing what you’re doing!!! Thanks

Very helpful for beginner saddle hunters!

Great job, and adding the chapters was a very nice touch! :)

Man I'm hooked!!!!! I've been binging on all your content and loving every minute of it! Keep it coming.

Thank you for always doing informative content. For a newbie I n saddle hunting I alway look for your videos

Home run!!! Love your videos . Your videos are the best 👌

Thanks, this was just what I was looking for. Well done just like all of you videos.

Excellent video!

Fantastic video!!

Great video 😊

Great info.

6 inches is definitely a good length. thank you for confirming

Great job on the video!

Cool video thanks

Awesome video! Definitely going to upgrade my set up! Nice job

Good job

Nice job 👍

Good video.

Nice!

Spencer, terrific video for us "improving saddle hunters"!! Got my Dryad Saddle today!! Wish season opened tomorrow. If you have not tried the "Mini" from Hickory Creek Archery, you must try it. The bow is made for saddles like the Dryad

Daisy Chain knot for lineman’s rope vs. bag would be nice to add and see Super high quality videos and well thought out. Superior to others I watch. ❤keep ip the good work. BTW you got me to purchase a Dryad hammock 😂❤

Try a VT friction knot, way easier to adjust and has good bite. I'm using it for my tether over the Prusik knot.

I use the DMM Hitchclimber Eccentric for DRT climbing & I found that the Michoacon works very well. The top hole with the DMM oval carabiner attaches to the sewn eye. Then the bottom hole has another DMM oval carabiner attaching to the Michoacon hitch making sure that the top of the hitch is to the far right for easy repelling. U don't want your knot the other way that forces u to put your offhand in between the ropes which r close together. It works very nice & the bridge on my saddle that attaches to the bottom carabiner also has a Michoacon on it so I can lengthen or shorten my bridge easily. My other bridge is the oplux u have there & it has the WEI Kiss system on it. That bridge is used when I tie in when I get to my sitting height. It attaches to another Oplux that I simply girth hitch to the 🌳. It's a great system w/o much bulk but a lot of security.

My favorite of all is a Catalyst hitch. Smooth and hold tight but breaks really easily. Cinches down immediately and breaks super easy after being loaded. You can even break it for a slow adjustment while fully loaded. I tried all of these and liked the Michoacán a lot but the Catalyst hitch really grabbed me. (Pun intended)

Thank you for all the hunting tutorials! I love how your explanations are so detailed and thorough. You definitely have a gift for teaching and you may want to think about asking for people to subscribe/like/share your content so you can grow your channel and help more people! I do have one question that I haven't been able to find elsewhere yet. Does the schwabisch knot need a tender (like the prusik/beast tender) to make it one hand operation? Thanks again!

I just really felt a great appreciation for your combining things into one video with such great demonstrations too! Thanks man!!! - oh, while I’m at it: Do you ever mess with SRT or mix it into your saddle hunting? Also, I would love to see some more on your use and experience with ring(s) of steps in combo with a platform… I wonder if there’s a fun way to to to do a ring up high for observation and platform down low for cover with a rig between them - probably never used in real life but very cool experiment to demonstrate some high level techniques (now that all these tree climbing videos am I right?)!😍. Especially when trying to minimize metal parts, once you’ve actually have some reps in the deer woods and the pretty mechanical stuff turns into the bane of your newfound freedoms!!!! :)) Along your way, have you found some interesting (or, otherwise fundamental diy technique stuff advanced people might take for granted but a new guy might be doing backwards..,eg. ) use Ig amsteel to replace metal pieces, ultra quiet ninja hacks to give us too please?! I’m still enjoying and going through your stuff so forgive me if some of that is already covered and for this fragmented comment. Much love ❤😂🎉

What knot would you tie for a backup on your tether line?

So new to saddle hunting not new to saddles. I was an arborist for quite a few years 20yrs ago. I’ve been looking at ropes and knots again to freshen up. So I’m thinking about resc tech or Oplux for my ropes but reading some forums where they both fail pinch tests after 50-60 hunts where the knots are tied. Have you seen this or heard of this? How long should I expect my ropes to last under normal use 30+ sits a yr? My arborist ropes lasted quite a while if you took care of them is why I ask.

Can a Schwabisch knot be tied with a Beal Jammy? Or what knot is best for it? I have a 50cm one

I got the 8mm sterling. Am I just using essentially para chord for the swabbich or whatever it’s called

If I'm one sticking with an amsteel rope and cam cleat, what knot or hitch would I use when I get to hunting height after setting my stick?

So what would be better to use on my tether? A overhand on a bite or a figure 8?

At the 13:00 mark, how did you tie the prussic to the carabiner?

Which rope were you using, C-IV?

What is the finish length of cord for these hitches

What cord is that for the hitches?

can you use these same knots for amsteel?

One thing I’ve never seen on the gazillion saddle videos I’ve watched are purchase sources for rope? I hope people would just not running down to Home Depot!!

Why not use a bowline knot instead of some sort of bight? Uses way let rope to tie.

One word: Zillon. As in Petzl Zillon. Problem solved. No knots. (Otherwise, really good video. Very thorough.)