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Old 08-27-2011 | 03:14 PM
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I would get yourself some good camo that matches the terrain or even a ghillie suit made for bowhunting. Or make one and then use the landscape to your advantage. Make sure you are up against a tree trunk or dead fall or sunk into a thicket so you have good cover behind you and move around if you want throughout the day - sparingly and with great care. Plenty of people take big bucks from the ground. The key is patience and using the landscape to your advantage. You need to blend it and become invisible, which again means good camo + using the terrain + minimal movement. The most exciting hunt yet for me was closing the distance on a yearling doe from 200 yards to 30 and loosing an arrow through both lungs. That was nuts versus the usual stationary hunting I do from a natural blind, pop-up or treestand.
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