I hunt from the ground most of the time. I don' t own a portable treestand and have built only one permant stand on my property. There are not a lot of good trees here in southern Iowa for treestands. But there' s a ton of brushy cover and overgrown fencerows. As was stated before, when hunting from the ground you really have to watch your scent, wind direction, movement, so forth. But the rewards of taking even a doe from 25 or 30 yards away on the ground is worth all the extra trouble!