RE: another face to face enounter with nice buck
it's a place I can't put a stand - not my land (not big on climbers, etc. - too small for me) and its an area that I have seen several nice bucks over the past few years.
I have a stand for my bow that I bought for hunting on the ground but it doesn't stay well in the loose soil where my camp is. bow sits next to me and an arrow next to it. As for having my bow at the ready - not going to happen. I can't sit there for 4-5 hours+ with a bow on my lap (not comfortable). And it's hard to read my book - that's right, my book! Again, can't sit for 5 hours with nothing to pas the time.
Both deer I saw from that spot I was able to get the arrow nocked and drew on this one. Odds are decreased on the ground but man its fun. I will be making a ground blind (out of sticks, branches, etc.) next year at this spot