Millenium Run N' Gun seat or a low profile style lounger

[Dazzler]

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?

[Greg Massey]

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.

[Sixes]

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

[Sixes]

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

[Tail Feathers]

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.

[ruination]

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.

[wchadw]

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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[wchadw]

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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[Sixes]

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. 

[bbcoach]

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.

[Dtrkyman]

Lafuma low chair, under 2lbs, not big boy approved but I've had mine for several years!


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[Flagobbler]

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

[Marc]

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.

[g8rvet]

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). 

[Neill_Prater]

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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