Hunt Arsenal Goes All-In: A Full 2025 System Built to Shake Up Mobile Hunting

A year ago, most saddle hunters would tell you the short list of serious mobile gear brands was pretty well set. Then Hunt Arsenal started shipping, and that conversation got a lot more interesting. Heading into the fall 2025 season, the brand rolled out a full system — saddles, platforms, packs — that challenged every established player on weight, comfort, and flat-out engineering ambition. Whether they pull it off in the long run is still being written, but the gear itself is hard to ignore.

The Cloud Platform: Where Arsenal Built Its Foundation

Arsenal's identity has always been anchored to comfort, and they doubled down in 2025. The Cloud Infinity Saddle sits at the top of the lineup, built around what the company calls the Infinity PRO Bridge System — a design intended to deliver both macro and micro bridge adjustments in a single, streamlined interface. The goal is letting a hunter fine-tune their in-tree fit faster and more precisely than a traditional bridge setup allows. It's built off the award-winning Cloud chassis, a single-panel design that originally introduced integrated lower-back support to the saddle hunting space when it launched in 2023.

But the bigger news for weight-obsessed run-and-gunners might be the Cloud Air Saddle. Arsenal released it as their lightest saddle offering, featuring breathable mesh construction and an Infinity LITE Bridge System. At just 15 ounces, it's a genuinely featherweight option designed for hunters who want to move fast and sacrifice nothing they can't afford to leave behind. It's part of the same Cloud Series comfort DNA but stripped to the essentials.

The RZR Platform Lineup: Thin Is In

If the saddle side of Arsenal's 2025 launch was notable, the platform side is where the engineering gets loud. The entire RZR Series is machined from 7075 billet aluminum and built around a one-inch-thick profile — a packability spec that separates these platforms from most of the competition. That number matters on a long hike into a morning spot or when you're slinging everything on your back and moving at noon to chase shifting wind.

The RZR Elite is Arsenal's flagship all-around option. It measures 13.5 inches wide by 12.5 inches deep and comes in at 2.45 pounds — a platform Arsenal describes as their best balance of size, weight, and comfort. A tapered front edge debuted on the Elite, designed to take pressure off the foot arches during long sits. Their Cinch RopeLok system handles attachment, providing mechanical advantage that pins the platform tighter to the tree than a standard rope-and-cam setup.

Then there's the RZR SUB2 — and the name says everything. Arsenal positioned it as the first full-feature platform to break the two-pound barrier, coming in at 1.95 pounds. It shares the one-inch thick profile of its big brother but is trimmed to 12 inches wide by 11.5 inches deep. The wrinkle that sets the SUB2 apart: integrated boot talons on the platform surface, designed to give hunters confident footing when rotating for a backside tree shot. That's a specific, real problem for mobile hunters who work the whole 360 degrees of a tree, and it's the kind of detail that shows a brand paying attention in the field.

Why This Matters for the Market

What Hunt Arsenal did in 2025 wasn't just release new products — they released a coherent system. Saddle, platform, pack, tether. A hunter can walk into the fall running an all-Arsenal setup and not have to choose between brand loyalty and gear quality. That's the same formula Tethrd built its following on, and the same path Trophyline is walking. Arsenal is simply the newest brand to get there, and they got there fast.

The saddle hunting market keeps compressing weight floors and raising comfort ceilings at the same time. A 15-ounce saddle and a sub-two-pound platform existing in the same system — in 2025 — is a benchmark worth marking. Whether you're already in the Arsenal ecosystem or just watching from the outside, this brand earned a spot on the shortlist. Send it into the woods this fall and find out why the community is paying attention.