I think when you set up something like that upit has to be up a while, like a few weeks before they get used to it. I shot my first buck off of the ground and was in the wide open, but it was first light and he could not see me good. Last year I threw together a some ground cover in an old rotten out five foot stump and then put a bunch of limbs in front of it for some cover and my nephew shot his nice eight pointer out of it. We were both on the ground with no chairs so we were pretty low. I see alot more deer now that I am in a tree but I only use ladder stands now. I about fell out of the treefive years ago and it scared the crap outa me! Now I only use ladders and feel alot better in them. But alot of guys use blinds and get deer the same day.

This year me and dad found some new swamp area to hunt and did notwant to spend any money on a ground blind and had no money for another ladder. We went out andmade a blind in a blow down also and had alot of good cover in front of us. We had three does walk right out in front of us with no problems. But dad is63and I could tell he was having a hard time on the ground so I bought a blind for chairs for dad. Both times I have been in the blind since, I could have shot a doe, but played the stare down game both times, and one time they trotted off pretty good. Do you hunt somewhere you can leave a stand or blind? Or do you need to take your stuff with ya every time?