Treestand or ground blind?
The reason I post this is I'm scared spitless of treestands. I crawled into a treestand once, and it proved everything I already suspected. It's nuts. If I could put a trampoline on the ground below me, wear three harnesses (one on the body and one on each leg), then hunt only days with zero wind, maybe.
Living in MT, with our long seasons, and being kind of a weapons slut (I'll use anything- rifle, bow, or whatever's in season), I really haven't hunted whitetail much with a bow. My bow season is pretty much for elk hunting now, but I'd like to get more into bowhunting for deer. We can kill does with bow only from Dec 1 to Jan 15, up to five per hunter.
My question is: how many people use ground blinds, and how much of a handicap is it for a bowhunter to sit on the ground versus in a tree?