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mighty joe:
mostly stalk, if i come across a good spot i'll sit and wait. no trees for me though, just never liked it.

Postman:
I use a ghillie jacket and improvised ground blinds. Got it last year.Love it! I like to have a "screen" directly in front like a large tree so I can draw easier without being seen. make my setups in the summer.  Killed a doe at 17yds this way last year with a self bow, and had several blown chances at close range this year. Everything from a high shot (she was downhill...grrr....) to blundering gun hunters, to a coughing spell to fidget busted..

I've killed about half a dozen small bucks/does from the ground at 20 yds or less, but only last years was a selfbow kill. I hunt heavily pressured public land, So i try to Get'em early,ain't picky.

 Being comfy=less fidgeting. Have some butt padding. I take my ghillie in a backpack with extra padding and sit on it when I set up. Wearing a ghillie on the way in is pure folly where I hunt - lots of greenbriers, plus too hot in early season.
Good luck, watch the wind, of course!

crooketarrow:
   I forgot I also hunt with a ghillie also I made in 89. Neve hunt with out it unless I'm in  BLIND.
 I do have a couple standind corn fielDs I stalk in with the wind howls. I arrowed 5 bucks PEAKING THE ROWS doing this only time I move. Then I do'nt do it on my farms. Thats just unneeded persure.
  If you want mature bucks to move in the day light other than the rut. You have to practice the NO PRESSURE approch. It dosn't work any other way.

barefootbowhunter:
for me terrain dictates how i hunt. if im hunting the coast its either thick with alders and salmon berry where seeing beyond 15 feet is rare,or you go higher in elevation into conifer forests where say 30 yards is about as far as you see with plenty of large trees for cover and mossy ground for silent stalking. its in the alders where i tend to set natural blinds, while in the big timber i will walk slug slow with barefeet in the moss. Keep in mind hunting while WALKING PROPERLY is an art that you wont learn if your terrain does not suit the tecnique
but if im mulie hunting in the east hunting strategies change while its still spot and stalk, the differnce is its so open and steep, that we get to the top which is 7000 feet from camp and once on top you move little glass alot and if wind is good and the animals below you the stalk is on. leavin for a week alone in the big timber tomorro hopfully my prey will slip up so i may feast of his fresh vitals....the ancient battle of predetor vs prey...soothes my soul on this christmas day... merry christmas PA

sonny:
I always hunt from treestands. The biggest drawback to doing that is that sometimes deer will pass by just out of
range.
This past archery season I had a spike buck walk the fenceline 40 yards behind one of my favorite treestands, never
offering a shot that I was comfortable with.

Hopefully you'll see why we consider it at least slightly amusing- a buddy of mine who uses a climbing stand fairly often kept
seeing a deer or two right near one particular corner of a field he hunted. So he took his climber down to that corner thinking that he'd get a shot. Got there plenty early and stayed 'til dark- the deer never showed. But that's what you get when you try to pattern 'em.
       

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