I have not hunted from a tree in years. The last 6 years I have spent 95% of my whitetail hunting on the ground. I have become quite successful at tracking in the winter. During the fall I spend most of the days still hunting or photographing and video taping my kids and other hunters. I save most of my hunting for December when I can get on a set of tracks and hopefully follow it to a bedded or slowly traveling deer. Sometimes it works and others it does not, but when I do catch up to a deer and it happens to be a buck, there is nothing more rewarding than the great feeling of accomplishment from my efforts. If I happen to be able to shoot the deer than that is just a bonus.