so whos gonna be huntin from natural ground blinds this year?
I plan to 60% from some sort of natural blind, maybe more if I'm seeing game on regular basis. I like to scout and take time to make some hides, sometimes I do it when I stump shoot!
I'll be hanging one stand this year but the rest of my hotspots I'll be building natural ground blinds. I prefer to hunt on the ground and now that I'll be hunting my old stomping grounds in WV again I plan to spend 90 percent of my time in a natural ground blind.
I have several different ones:
- a few are in old fence rows
- one is an old junkyard with a few cars and old farm trucks
- one is in an overgrown orchard
- I have a handfull made from blowdowns
Of course I haven't hunted them for a long time so I'll probably have to completely rebuild them.
I have 4 ready to go, deer in front of them every day. I have been watching mine from 150-200 yards, had 4 bucks in front of one at 15 yards last week!
I almost always always do, Ian....I know I won't be as successful as a treestand hunter but there's nothing quite like being at eye level with a deer at 12 yards. If after I've scouted an area and I like a spot that's a little sparse in terms of nautal blinds, I will carry a piece of leafy camo netting in my pack.
I find it really effective when I can stick some branches down through the leafy holes and into the ground in fron of me. Especially wha I have a nice wide tree to lean against. Of course, the real key is being able to sit still. I've taken deer on the ground while I had no blind but was sitting rock solid still with a wide tree to my back.
I gave up treestand hunting. I strictly hunt from the ground now in a Lucky's Blind, or just concealed good with my Rancho Safari Shaggie suit.
gilley suit and ground blind for me !
QuoteOriginally posted by Ron+dog:
gilley suit and ground blind for me !
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I will often, I carry my haul twin and when on the ground tie it and hang/place branches on it or use zip ties to hold them in place and have a large tree behind me for additional break up.
I have a couple build so far.
I have several ready one is 20+ years old.
I will be.
I might...maybe.. use a pop up in really wet weather.
Thick brush in my area. The whole forest is a ground blind around here.
I'm in. Hap
This will be the first year for my wife and myself to hunt from a ground blind. Using a Gilley suit and looking forward to an exciting season..............James
Since I'll be hunting mainly on public land I am going to forego the treestands this year and stick to hunting from the ground.
Im going to try to give up the trees this year and do it with a recurve from the ground.
One of my spots is a blind built out of pine boughs I have to rebrush every year.
I have a couple ladder stand locations ready, but plan on spending most of the time in a gilly and some natural ground stands back in the cedars.
Like Irish, Love those cedars. When the conditions are right its a great way to hunt. I plan on doing it more this season.
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This is the only way I have hunted for the past 15 years.
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i will start building mine come the next couple weekends. i got some great spots picked out and i think a month and a half or so will give them more then enough time to get used to the change of scenery. Dont you think that's enough time?
Chair in dog hair pines, pine bough blinds, ghillie suit, and stalking. The grounds best for me. Now if I could shoot as well as I hide I might quit eating tags
ghille, stalking and ground blinds...keep those feet on the mother earth!
Hunted from the ground last couple years. I've litteraly had deer within spitting distance... but that is one of the problems their somtimes to close, wouldnt' have it any other way!!
Jason
I prefer the ground but will hunt from anywhere fit for the particular spot. So for me *0% from the ground.
I hunt about half and half from the ground and elevated stands. I am leaning more to ground blinds, because it is getting just too difficult to climb up and down ladders to the tree stands.
I will be using my on-the-bow blind and my ghuillie.
God bless,Mudd
I have been enjoying natural ground blinds often to hunt moose, caribou, or bears for 45 years.
Whitetails are exotic to me however, and I will hunt them from above, mostly for the change.
Properly set up a natural ground blind is as deadly as it gets on Whitetails... I hunt from them every season...
Another thread on portables got me searching for old threads on natural ground blinds. I've done something a little different each year, but I learn something every year. One thing I will do from now on is have something over head. Whether that just means building a taller blind, or something to brush in over head. I've always had something behind me to break up my outline, but having something to shade you helps a lot. Nothing worse than being lit up on a sunny day when you have to move a little.
Ghillie and groundblinds for me 100% this season
Is there any other way to bowhunt deer?
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It's unreal how many natural blinds you see just walking around. Sometimes I'll take just my bow and a decent seat and go set somewhere, especially a new area if I'm not sure about trees. The last 2 weekends I've seen tons of deer doing that. I try not to try too hard on the blinds, otherwise they start to look manmade.
Had a doe 15 feet away last week, from just about this angle and in front of the saplings in the right of the image, looking at me while stretching her neck out and pawing, trying to get me to blink. Then she stiff-legged slowly away. Never did lift her tail.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/Stumpkiller/Bowhunting/HPIM2700.jpg)
A little button walked a few feet away and broadside behind the hemlock I'm leaning against. No bucks seen yet. :(
Ghille and a brush blind. Nailed a 8 point this year. What a rush.
looking good. Now that it's a bit colder here, I plan on trying out the ghillie. Can't wait...I have 1 buck and 1 doe tag left.
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this was me in my natural set up a few weeks ago.
i had 22 deer come past me that morning. i just sat next to this log
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I never get tired of these ground hunting pics and post. Ive been on the ground...going on three years now. Seen alot of deer but seems like I can never get the right angle. Sure is fun though. If I ever connect from the ground, I'll be done with trees for good.
Good hunting, Jason