Lots of nice deer taken so far.Cool pics from you guys and gals.Anybody take theirs from on the ground this year??
Ill be keeping eyes on this thread. I too would love to see pictures and hear story's about ground kills. Specifically natural ground blinds personaly!
Not trying to hi jack 3 feathers, but specify if ground blind or just natural blind. Thanks.
My setup usually just consist of a comfortable chair and a tree with the wind in my face. I usually just wear solid tree looking colors. In early season I like old woodland camo and plaid shirts.
I can't stand sitting in a blind. Makes feel disconnected from the woods.
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me to Bro i like to be in the woods or sitting at the base of a tree :thumbsup:
yes my mule deer was shot on the ground... 22 yard shot and about 50 60 yard recovery.
What did bowhunters do before the invention of the tree stand?
They shot deer from the ground!
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Nice buck Rob W congrats!!!
Here's a story from a couple of weeks ago.....
I went bear hunting this weekend, wild adventures and experiences to say the least....but those stories will have to wait....
Saturday afternoon around 3:00 I was easing down the right side of a road bed when I saw a doe coming up a bank on my right out of nowhere. She stepped out into the road about 10 yards ahead and looked right at me. Get this,...she acted like I wasn't even there...looked ahead and walked across the road and scampered up a steep bank to the top and just stopped and started looking around left and right.....
I eased up the road a bit and crossed over to the left side of the road trying to find a shot, one which I would have to 'manufacture' to get into the goodies under the limbs. I leaned right, squatted and laid a pretty sever cant on the bow. After all she also was pretty severe...severely uphill and quartering away...
I drew the bow and released all in one motion and the arrow magically went right were I was looking.
The arrow made a very audible 'slice' sound as it entered and I saw the arrow still in her when she made her 1st leap, then I heard a 2nd leap and then nothing, nothing at all. So I backed out.
Like I said, I was bear hunting, and was doing so with Tee Bone of Medicine Bear Archery, and one of his Badger Broadheads. I knew Tee was still at the shooting course and hadn't left to hunt yet so I went to get him to help me as I needed to get back to bear hunting.
Here's what we found 8 yards from the impact....
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Here's the angle of the arrow, from the bottom up. (Note the broadhead almost breaking out)...
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And here's the reason for the shot placement...
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Thanks for all your help this weekend Tee....I had a blast. We'll have to get after those pesky squirrels one day. :campfire:
I shot my first bear a few weeks ago using my Howard Hill longbow and my own wood arrows. It was also on public land.
The 3pt Buck I shot last tuesday, was shot from my Stone Circle ground blind. The 2nd buck I've shot there over the last few years. My son Tyler drew on a nice long Spike last year but couldn't get a clear shot,so he let down. (there was "A" stick in the way! Ok,at 13...good call on his part!) He also passed on a nice fat little 4pt this year becauase he thought it was too far. (I've seen him shoot 3-D,and I KNOW he could have killed it. However, I WILL NOT tell him when to shoot! it's his call...)
Actualy, I have NEVER, killed a deer from a tree stand.....
(Missed a BUNCH though!!! lmao) :banghead:
Good shootin Terry.
Shot a doe just yesterday. Natural ground blind with a ghillie suit on.
I shot this doe on the ground with only my pacseat and cabelas 3D-seclusion coat with hood.
http://imgur.com/TTp8EZW
I hunt exclusively from the ground now. I shot this deer on Saturday...
http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=132936
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mojostick, now that's a beach tree! Great pics guys
Shot my doe as well on the ground, used my strap on tree seat,leafy camo top,and lots of camo makeup.I love ground hunting.
Love hunting from brush blinds or home made ground blinds. I have almost exclusively for 2 years now.
This seasons doe at 8 yards.
(http://i.imgur.com/RpgZTOW.jpg)
Last years at a little over 15 yards.
(http://i.imgur.com/1ghDZ4D.jpg)
Both with a longbow and both with nothing over a 30-40 yard recovery.
Although mine is home made, I've found that one of these help make a few hours sit VERY comfortable!
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I can set up a "ground blind" just about anywhere I want and make a move as need be dictated by the wind or circumstances.
Best of luck to all who give hunting from the ground their best! I just can not get used to a tree stand keeping me from moving when necessary or even get comfortable in one any longer. Now that I've discovered hunting from the ground - at eye level - I crave it every day!
Nice pictures guys!
Oklahomaleatherman - who manufacturers that seat; pretty cool looking outfit!
Bernie Bjorklund
NC Iowa/SW Wisconsin
Buckeye,
That is a huge beech, isn't it? Michigan has a "biggest trees" group that keeps records of the biggest trees, by species. I had a forester come out for that specific beech.
What he said was, if the trunk was one solid trunk, it'd actually be the biggest beech in Michigan. But it's not one solid trunk, it's actually multiple beech trees that fused together.
Either way, it's likely the biggest beech "combo" most will ever see and the cabin is built in it's shadow, so it makes a great place for pictures. :)
I have one natural blind at the top on a hill line and another made of burlap as well as a natural brush pile that the kids can hide in. Been busted a couple of times but soon I hope a deer will fail to notice me!
I was looking at purchasing the ground blind seat from Big Jim's Bow Company, a sponsor on here, but they were out of it so I sent the picture to my father-in-law and he welded me up a frame.
Mine is probably three times as heavy as the ones you can purchase but I have no fear that it'll collapse as it is made from some heavy duty steel!
I'll try to get a picture of mine in the next couple of days.
I shot doe at 12yrds this yr. First big game animal. Homemade burlap blind.
I have the Hunterseat pictured above. It works great but I replaced the thin foam pad with something thicker and bigger to accomidate an adult size butt.
Last week I used my seat then stood behind a big tree when the deer showed up. I shot a button buck with my Abbott longbow at 15yd when it walked by.
I typically use natural set ups, sometimes leaning sticks and limbs against trees to add cover.
shot these bears a week apart, one at 10 yds and one at 12, both were walking trails and I was able to cut them off. I always hunt bear on the ground, you can get by with a lot more than you can with deer.
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Shot the deer on the ground at 16 yds with just a leafy suit
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Got mine sitting on a stool. Lots of back cover though
5 of the last 7 deer I have killed have been from the ground. I use blinds and natural cover....depends on the situation and cover. I got a button buck day two this year at about 8 yards. I have no pic as I was alone and sliced my finger dressing the deer out so I had to deal with my own blood flow. Fortunately I had used the canoe getting to my stand location so getting out and stopping the bleeding was pretty easy since I didn't have to drag it the mile or so to my truck.
I pretty much have stayed on terra firma for the past several seasons, and have had pretty good success. So far this year, just a turkey, but I have taken 6 whitetails from the ground in the past 3 years, and hope to have a repeat performance or two this year.
13 FEET from a quickly brushed in ground blind.
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No harvest but I had an interesting encounter at under 20 yards today while still hunting for mule deer does...it was with a young whitetail buck that was working his scrape line...I tried a few snort wheezes on him but apparently I did not look enough like another whitetail buck for him to come pick a fight...finally I decided I had better chase him away so he did not run off upwind and spook any mule deer that way...he headed off downwind from me and remarkably I saw him again a few minutes later on the trail I had just worked my way along carrying on with the business at hand
DDave
The longer I hunt, the more hours I spend afield, I am starting to believe that the ground is the most logical way to go.
Awesome stories! TTT