When I first started I learned much of what I know today from ground hunting. My experience was that I probably saw more deer and the close encounters were awesome but the missed shots from the motion of drawing back was enough to prompt me to get up in the canopy of the trees. Unless you have a climber with plenty of trees that are climber friendly, which I don't, then you have to learn to be very effective at stand placement and willing to move stands possibly several times within a given season.