Patent ID: 7137480
Filing Date: 2006-11-21
Classification: A01M,F41A,Y10T

Abstract:
1. In combination, a climbing tree stand including a peripheral frame, a weapon for use in hunting from the tree stand, and a holding device releasably securing the weapon to the tree stand so that the operations of putting the tree stand into place in an operative position on a tree, and removing the tree stand from the tree, can be carried out with the weapon secured to the tree stand, thereby freeing a hunter using the tree stand from holding the weapon during said operations, said device comprising: first and second elongate flexible elements extending substantially orthogonally to one another and secured together in a substantially cross shape configuration, said first element is of a substantially greater length that said second element the first element including a loop portion at one end thereof, and the second element including a first hooks and loops fastener member at one end thereof, on one side thereof, and a second hooks and loops fastener at the other end thereof on the opposite side thereof the second elongate element wrapped around the frame and secured by the hooks and loops fasteners, securing the device to the frame of the tree stand; and a pair of D-rings, affixed to said first element by said loop portion, with the other end of the first element threaded through the D-rings, securing the weapon within the first element and in place on the tree stand.