Feel for you. Popular trails make hammocks a gamble for sure.

Maybe check your grip technique too. Lighter shears won't fix bad habits, they just make them easier to ignore.

Used to think new stuff was a waste of money, but @miles279 stories like that totally changed my mind. Nothing worse than paying twice for the same thing.

The "pairing on the first try" thing is a nice win but honestly that usually means the sensors were already linked from the factory or something. I've had a couple of those lucky jobs too where everything just worked, but I always double check by pulling each sensor out of the mount to see if it triggers a trouble signal. Still beats the days where you spend an hour pairing one stubborn window sensor that keeps dropping offline.

Taking a buckle out of context feels like cheating, but sometimes the dirt knows better than the textbooks.