The author testing the Black Belt Ultimate. Photo by Erik Barber I’ve been hunting exclusively from a tree saddle since 2018, when I was lucky enough to kill a beautiful 8-point buck on opening day of ...

My first exposure to tree saddles came when reading the work of fellow Michigan native and bowhunter John Eberhart, who should be credited as the godfather of saddle hunting. He has an impressive ...

Everyone rode bareback or with just a saddle cloth until about the fourth century A.D. Early European saddles had no stirrups until the reign of Emperor Maurice (A.D. 582-602), after he learned about ...