Tree stands, including ladder platforms, lock-ons and climbers, are especially popular with archery hunters. Hunters rely on tree stands to elevate themselves above ground.

Each year hunters fall from ladder stands, lock-on stands and climbing stands. Accidents have been reported with box stands that are like small houses on stilts.

An avid hunter, McCulloch has been using lock-on tree stands all his life and never had a problem. But last Thursday, as he was checking his stand, it broke, plummeting him 25 feet.

Archery hunters frequently rely on tree stands to elevate themselves well above ground to help beat the whitetail s sharp eyesight and keen sense of smell. Using a high quality safety harness and ...

The WWII sniper tree stand design was copied and perfected by Jacksonville fireman Andy Anders, who commercially produced, here in the River City, the first fixed-position, lock-on type tree ...