This is the only way I have hunted for the past 15 years.

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?

     

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.

   

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.

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

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