Does anybody else occasionally bowhunt off the ground in a natural ground blind? Sometimes I think we get too pre-occupied with getting up high. I've been in natural ground blinds that offered amazing concealment, and they can be extremely comfortable too depending on the setup. You just have to really watch the wind, but I do that anyway. Sometimes, when hunting the thickest, nastiest cover, where you can only see 15 yards at most, a treestand just isn't feasible. And getting a popup blind in therequietly won't work either. For these areas, a natural ground blind may be the only way to hunt it.

It's a real nice change of pace, too. Sometimes when you are 20 feet in the air you feel somewhat disconnected from your surroundings - like a spectator in the cheap seats. On the ground, you don't feel that way. You're right IN it, instead of above it.

My grandpa never hunted out of a tree, and he killed alot of deer with his recurve from natural ground blinds. He liked to dig a pit and sit with his feet inthe hole and his back up against a stump. Then he'd pile brush strategically around him for cover. He was a killer back in the day. And without scentlok and scent spray, too.

I'm going to try to take a deer with my bow this year out of a natural ground blind as a tribute to gramps.