Best Sit Anywhere style turkey vest

[rakkin6]

Do you hunt down in the Ohio River Valley?

Yes we are close to the Ohio river,  but there are plenty of hills in that valley


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Oh I know I spent my teenage years on the Kentucky side.

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[WTNUT]

I have darn near talked myself into buying whatever vest I think has the best storage options and seat then adding the straps to cinch the seat to the back.   Where I hunt,  99 percent of the time I am against a tree but the ground is always slopping and the straps with a lounge style serve the greatest purpose by leveling you up from left to right. 

I am looking closely at the Alps Super Elite 4.  It has straps and buckles attached to the seat already.  All you would have to do is sew straps with the female buckles to the back and attach them and you would have the same style that I like.

All the stadium seat type vests have stiff stays running up and down the length of the back on each side.  That's for support to keep the vest back upright.  I don't think your plan would work without such support on the back.  But good luck if you try.

Tall Feathers my friend,  You are spot on.  I am recovering from COVID and just got up the energy to go back and look at my "Bucklick" vest and it does have stiff stays running up and down the back and on the seat cushion.   I will just look for models already with stays in place.   I really don't want the frame models.   

[TauntoHawk]

I love the concept of this style seat but there just isn't a good execution of the style imo available.

I have both a primos rocker and aplz impact and I'm using neither currently running the knight and hale RG300.

The primos design is good maybe too many pockets and bit hot so let's say slightly over designed for some hunters but not over built. the build is as bad as they come the treading doesn't hold up to any use at all, mine has fishing line holding it together in 7bplaces after about 20 hunts. This would only be a good option if you have someone good with a needle and willing to reinforce all over the place.

They alpz the seat is too small it doesn't extend  under the legs or come up the back enough to make the design work and be comfortable. I got the vest tried it in my basement and thought this just isn't going to work the way I wanted it too and never went hunting with it. I did give it to my wife and she asked to not use it after 1 day of hunting sighting the same issues I had with the seat.

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[WTNUT]

I love the concept of this style seat but there just isn't a good execution of the style imo available.


I think you are exactly right!  My bucklite has a perfect sized seat and back.  It could use more padding.  But the pocket design is horrible and I have dealt with it a long time.   It is okay if you are only using mouth calls which I did for decades,  but stinks otherwise.   Everyone says the Primos is junk.  I appreciate the comment on the ALPS IMPACT,  that was going to be my choice.   Bass Pro makes one which is the Bucklite,  they probably bought them out.  Alps makes a stadium seat.  I was wondering if you sit in that with a vest on and have the vest seat on top of the stadium seat.  Or,  even slide it up between vest and your back when you sit down.   

I too love the stability of that stadium syle seat on the hills of Appalachia.