This short little video shows the equipment set up in the feeder area, designed…

This short little video shows the equipment set up in the feeder area, designed with the particular demands of bowhunting in mind, and the Summit Viper Pro SD stand, mounted on the trunk of an alder tree, 22 m from the center of the feeder, beneath its canopy.
At this location, my hunts generally run from 4 pm to 7 or 8 am the next morning.

/ Since, in light of experience, the equipment and methods are under constant revision, changes have taken place since the video was made.
For example:
– The concept of the "gear pole," visible in the video and making it easier to organize the equipment, has stayed, because in my humble opinion it’s the best, most complex solution so far to the problems that arise when placing the necessary gear and the bow holder.
For example, the left-hand "gear pole," set 80 cm from the trunk, functions like a crane arm: using a 3 mm Dyneema cord (zero stretch) running through a sailing pulley mounted at its end, I hoist up, and at the end of the hunt lower, the bow and my other necessary gear.
The right-hand one serves for hanging the scent-blocking bag, the ScentThief, and the pee bottle, and occasionally functions as a clothes hanger, as well as a stable handhold when climbing up and down.

(The previously widespread solution of strap hooks around the trunk froze solid to the trunk on a freezing winter night and couldn’t be removed the next morning; also, with hooks fixed to the trunk, the backpack hangs rotated 90 degrees relative to me, and with the backpack rotated 90 degrees in this way, its back pockets on the left side — as seen from the front — become hard to reach . . .)
The implementation, however, has changed somewhat.

– In the meantime I also replaced the bow-holder arm, since the version that wraps around the tree loosened after 3-4 uses (in the case of alder, which counts as a softwood), and there was a risk it wouldn’t hold the bow, or that it would always need to be wound onto a slightly different spot.
The current solution is an entirely new arm design, held by a Manfrotto SuperClamp gripping onto the gear pole.

– The placement of the arrow quiver, as well as the two-part bracket for mounting the fluid camera head, has also been solved, attached to the LoneWolf Climb and Seat stand.

– In the meantime I also replaced the fluid video head with one fitted with an adjustable ball head, since up there in the stand it would be a miracle if anything were exactly level even in one direction, let alone in both the X and Y axes.

Beyond all this, the phone-controlled remote lighting for the dim illumination of the feeder and for controlling the Garmin VirbXE action camera, the bow holder, the arrow quiver, the camera, the Olight battery-powered spotlight fitted with a red filter (for when game doesn’t come to the feeder but appears at a completely random, yet still bow-range, spot), the stand bag, the backpack, the thermal camera, and the drink thermos — the need for all these and how they’re placed, i.e. the main concept, hasn’t changed.