re: Swamp public land-climber vs lock on?

All you really need is 2 sticks if you are truly hunting a cypress type swamp. Just get yourself 6-8 feet off the ground in a tree with thick cover. Getting high is mostly for when there's no leaves on the tree, swamps usually have enough evergreen's that's never an issue.

I mean 2 sticks or even 3, and a easy hang loc on and you can be hunting in 2 minutes easy peasy. Not even BS'ing that time, I have a lone wolf sticks and stand and you can hang that with 2 sticks in under a minute if I didn't care about sweating and noise. They are fast as crap. No real need for a harness at 8 feet either, I know I may deserve grief for that but so be it. I always wear it in my climber but I'm usually going 15-25 ft.

Just position yourself in the right trees where you are unlikely to have deer right under or really close to you, keep the trails 25 yards away and you are good to go. There's tons of swamp trees that I could almost dance in the stand with so much cover they'd never see you.