I am getting excited again! Love this elk stuff. I like to creep into the woods and be in an oak thicket at least an hour before light and have done well waiting for elk to walk by. Later in the morning I stalk and use a small pack for essentials. If I hear or glass a close elk I put on bears feet and do the creep. I nap early afternoon then go out and sit a water hole in a ground blind. Have killed elk from trees but always sitting in low branches as I don't like tree stands. You can usually find a tree on a hole with a couple of boards the old timers nailed up. I did buy a Double Bull blind last week for elk and turkey as my buddies do real well with them. I don't know how it will be lugging it around though. Probably put it in the truck when I want to stalk. I only bow hunt now so the blind should help. Good hunting.