The first deer I ever took was on the ground. It was a doe, and she walked past where I was sitting in some brush, I got up and walked a few yards down a dirt logging road and she stepped out broadside to me at 30 yds.

I have, just hid in a fence-row, used some weeds to break up my outline..Put a scentbomb out in the field. When the 8 pt stuck his nose in the scent bomb..I drilled him!

Now your talking, that is what I want right here folks.

Several. Heck, when I started bowhunting there was no such thing as a climber or even a stand available. I remember climbing up in trees a couple times and hanging on to limbs for a platform, but mostly you hunted from the ground. I remember when the first Baker climbers came out. I bought one instantly and thought I had died and gone to heaven. That was just a platform and you hugged the tree and pulled yourself up. It was great..... until the first time it lost it's bite and I slid down the tree like a train wreck. Took all the skin off my arms and face(chin and nose). Hunting from the ground is no problem, you just have to get everything right, the wind, your movement and some luck. Even in recent years one of my best spots was a ditch running through a big field. Another one was sitting on a dove seat under some washed out tree roots in this little stream watching a stream crossing.

The doe in my avatar was killed from the ground with no blind. It was my first deer killed with a bow. I sat with my back to an oak tree in deep shade looking out at a pasture. I had seen deer feeding on the acorns falling from the oaks and decided to give it a try. There was a blow down to my right and a cedar to my left. The oak had overhanging branches coming to about four feet from the ground. I got in and settled about an hour before daybreak. I was pretty comfortable with my back against the tree. About 1/2 an our after sunrise two does came in from around the deadfall slowly moving and eating acorns. One stopped 10 yards in front of me. She was standing in direct sunlight and I was in deep shade. She didn't notice me draw. I saw her fall about 40 yards away.

No deer, but 1 big ole turkey gobbla. It was cool. Kneeling beside a tree in some tall grass I called in 2. Both on full strut, and luckily they both turned their bums to me at the same time. End of story, for one of them anyway.

I shot a doe when I was 12 siting right on the edge of a filed the deer would come out about 13 yard infront of me and I got the first doe that cam in. I had no blind or tree stand

One doe, last season, on the ground with no blind. I was still-hunting with my bow toward a feeding area in the evening. She stepped out to cross a "human" trail that I was using to be quiet and almost freaked me out. Kind of didn't seem real. She looked right at me and we both stood completely still. I knew that if we stayed like that she would eventually run off. So I raised the bow, kind of waving it like the leaves that were near us in the wind, drew back and let if fly. She was at about 20 yards, and only ran about 30 before falling.
Good question, I like reading these stories as well. I hope to have another after this year. I've got two hundred acres to hunt, but I'll be hunting from the ground the entire time.
Good luck everyone,
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None, but that is not from lack of effort. I have had several close encounters with big bucks on the ground with me tucked into something to break up my outline or just stillhunting, but havenever connected. Its fun though.

My very first archery kill wason the ground while stillhunting with a recurve. I was 16 years old so that was a while (77 bowkills) ago. Since then the only couple of others on the ground without a blind have been purely chance encounters while getting in and out to a stand