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I think now that I was wrong in my first post saying the Duck only holds the rope's position. I now think that it takes the full load and the plate only acts as a fairlead into it. The only way the plate could take any of the load is if it were rigidly mounted to the harness which was tight on...

You might get some rotation by letting go of the rope, but it would still grab and hold the rope. In Kong's pictures the rope always travels over the pulley and carabiner. It must take both to make it strong enough. Apparently the rope just going over the cam doesn't have the support of the...

I think if you turned it 180 degrees and attached it to the top hole you would be following Kong's recommendations.

Buddy, looking again at your pictures it appears you are also using the Duck incorrectly. You have the advantage of the rigging plate to hold you if the Duck failed, provided you have a stopper knot on your bridge tail, but still you are loading the cam not the pulley as Kong shows.

Maximalist, from my understanding of the Duck, you are using it in an unsafe manner. The way your picture shows, you are putting the load on the cam rather than the pulley, which Kong shows in the instruction is unsafe. Plus there is no tensile strength ratings on the device. Others run the...