My back is feeling it a little extra than previous seasons. I think its time to get off the ground a little. I'm familiar with other millenium products. The no back run n' gun tree seat is on my short list, but thought I'd reach out to fellow backpain sufferers to see if I needed to keep my search to a lounger style. The smaller lighter tree seat option is very appealing. Anyone have experience with this product?
I just have one of the low profile folding turkey chairs that Walmart sells for turkey hunting and i have really enjoyed that seat with back support.
Now if i were going to buy a new one i would look at buying a millennium Field Pro Turkey Seat. With the back support you don't necessarily have to rely on a tree for your back support. Comfort makes a lot of difference in being still and patience.
The Millennium Field Pro Turkey Seat has really good reviews.
I have the Millennium Field Pro and love it. Light weight and very comfortable. I use primarily if I know that I am going to be in an area instead of a lot of movement, then I either sit on the ground or use a Hunt Comfort Fatboy. I keep both in my truck. Ive never found a cushion that was on a vest that was very good with the exception of the seat on the Cabelas Tatr 2.
I'm a bigger guy and most cushions are about like sitting on the ground.
Millennium makes great products and will stand behind what they make, but they ain't cheap
I will add that the benefit of the Field Pro is you can set comfortable without a tree to put your back against. I've used mine on field edges with no trees and small patches of ground cover around clear cuts. Without having to find a tree, you are more versatile and still have a solid back rest
That seat has a bar across the top of the back. Does that dig in?
I have a mid back disc damaged and couldn't take a bar digging in.
Yes.
I owned one and used it for several years.
It was just one more thing to carry that constantly got hung up on thick stuff. Switched back to the vest cushion 2 years ago. If I was hunting open hardwoods again, I might break it out again, but it was not all that much more comfortable than a pad in the end IMO.
If I plan a long sit it will be the lounger.
Also, It is lighter, but it is not smaller than a foldable chair. And if you have back problems the backless chair wont help much at all.
Alps makes an aluminum chair. It's light weight and I can sit in it for a long time no problem. Only downside is the colors it comes in. Orange and a neon green. I spray painted mine brown
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Quote from: wchadw on April 10, 2024, 02:43:26 PM
Alps makes an aluminum chair. It's light weight and I can sit in it for a long time no problem. Only downside is the colors it comes in. Orange and a neon green. I spray painted mine brown
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And blue. Good price
https://www.scheels.com/p/alps-mountaineering-rendezvous-chair/4882-8013914.html
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Quote from: Tail Feathers on April 10, 2024, 02:31:31 PM
That seat has a bar across the top of the back. Does that dig in?
I have a mid back disc damaged and couldn't take a bar digging in.
There is no bar across the back of mine, its just the bottom of the cover.
Walmart Mossy Oak lounge chair for me. Very comfortable for these 66-year-olds bones, butt and back. I actually have 2 and I'm always in the market for a third at the end of turkey season clearance. Price is $29.99, I believe. I tend to set for several hours, if I need to, patiently, quietly and comfortably.
Lafuma low chair, under 2lbs, not big boy approved but I've had mine for several years!
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I've been using the Run & Gun seat for years and won't use anything else. I can actually put the seat in the back of my Nomad Turkey Vest so it does not hang up on anything or it banging up against my body. I just take it out and throw it up on the tree and ready to hunt. I leave the turkey vest seat on my vest and it acts as excellent back support while leaning up on a tree. Can sit for hours with no discomfort. I'm 6'0 and weigh 210 lbs. It's also nice that you actually sit up just a littlehigher than a turkey vest seat or lounger style chair...spot that gobbler sooner
So I tried one of those turkey seats for a smaller area I was hunting (pretty much in one spot)....
It is more comfortable, but not a "WOW" moment for me... What I really disliked about it, is it is difficult to reposition on a bird coming in. Especially if the bird comes into my hard right (as a right-handed shooter).
NO WAY I would lug any seat around running & gunning in the horrible terrain I hunt.
I have spun 90 degrees in the Millenium, with my arm resting sideways on the back rest and killed a couple birds basically 180 from the way I was facing (probably more like 145, but close).
FYI. The Rendezvous chair featured on Scheels is NOT the lightweight, aluminum frame one at 6 lbs 13 ounces. Lightweight one is, I think, 4 lbs 13 ounces.
Contact Alps and ask them why they don't offer it in camouflage. I've done so twice, getting only a polite response both times saying they have no plans to do so. Duh!
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I have been sitting on the ground for years and the past two I been using my Nomad Turkey Vest cushion along with a wheelbarrow inner tube attached to it and it worked pretty well. This week I said enough was enough and I decided to buy a chair.
I looked at the Millennium Field Pro online but bought the ALPS Outdoor Z Vanish Turkey Chair instead.
It's comfortable but it does weight a lot hitting the scales at 8 lbs. 8 oz. in the XL size chair. I bought the XL size chair thinking it would be bigger (wider) giving more a little more room for mobility to readjust on an incoming bird.
Anybody have any experience with this chair?
Browning Strutter Chair when I use one. Built like a tank, solid, won't "tip-over". Folds real nice, has shoulder strap......great for Duck hunting too........
I have the Millennium Field Pro Seat that I use in situations where I know there is a good possibility I may be stationary for a decent amount of time. I definitely have some back issues, both upper and lower, and at least for me anyway, I've found that chair reduces back pain better than a turkey lounger type seat. I also added a very small, expandable bungee net holder thing on the backside of the section you lean your back against which gives me the option and makes it more convenient to carry other stuff that I mostly only use on longer sits (although the longer sits have become far, far less often with my boys, ages 8 & 5, getting older). I rarely ever carry more than one decoy, if any at all, yet you can fit two in my setup. It's also an easy way to carry any excess clothing you and/or your kid/grandkid may shed.
Based on your original post, I'm guessing you may not be interested in Field Pro Seat, but if you are, PM me (or anyone else who may be interested), and I'll send you pics of my setup.
What I really disliked about it, is it is difficult to reposition on a bird coming in. Especially if the bird comes into my hard right (as a right-handed shooter).
For those that use a chair and have this problem, I learned this little trick early on in my turkey hunting career. Position the chair 75 to 90 degrees away from the direction you think the bird is going to come from toward your shooting shoulder. This helps you to keep your left side open for righties and the right side open for lefties. This will open your swing to 150 degrees or more. Most of the loungers have low arm rests so you can pick up your leg and knee and move it to the rear over the arm rest with minimal effort if you need to. It isn't fool proof, but it definitely allows more swing arc with minimal movement.
Quote from: g8rvet on April 11, 2024, 05:23:40 PM
I have spun 90 degrees in the Millenium, with my arm resting sideways on the back rest and killed a couple birds basically 180 from the way I was facing (probably more like 145, but close).
Good to know...
I was not in the brand being discussed (something from Walmart), and I am short.
If I am shooting far right or behind me, I tend to spin/slide my whole gluteus maximus, Which I could not do in a chair (or at least the chair I was using).
No problem Marc. Just thought I would forward that tidbit of info along. Like I said nothing is fool proof. By the way, this little bit of info works really well when you are setting on the ground. Open up that left side when you set down. Don't position your face at his gobbling, point your left shoulder at him.
I bought a Browning woodsman chair last year out of desperation on the way home from a hunting trip. Plain Jane camouflage folding chair with a couple pockets on front seat bottom, carry strap. I replaced my strap with a universal Quake Claw strap. Was more comfortable than my knight&hale rng seat cushion!
Quote from: bbcoach on April 12, 2024, 04:53:10 PM
Open up that left side when you set down. Don't position your face at his gobbling, point your left shoulder at him.
What I have found, is that instead of facing the direction the bird is gobbling, I turn 180° and face the opposite way... Cause if I face the direction he is coming from, he is CERTAIN TO COME IN FROM BEHIND ME. :goofball:
But yes... I actually do the same... Left should pointed in the direction I think he will come... But they so rarely come in from the direction I think, that I really should just turn and face the tree.