For many of us hunting from the ground is nothing new. I have been hunting from the ground for as long as I have been hunting. I bow hunt and from the start I was making "homemade" blinds or using natural blinds(deadfalls, windbreaks, old farm structures). I love hunting on the ground when it fits. Don't get me wrong I love my stands toobut some spots can't be hunted from a stand and sometimes I hunt a spot on a whim and I don't have time to hang a stand. I think the recent burst in blind hunting has more to do with the market being flooded with them than anything else. I have picked up a couple of these too and had good success last season with them, are they the new treestand? No, but they definately have a place in my hunting shed.