shooting deer from?
09-17-2009, 07:59 PM
#1
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: st thomas ont
Posts: 262
shooting deer from?
Well hello all, im new to compound bow hunting but question? I love my summit but in one spot i hunt for deer , they look up, in another they just walk. So ive been practicing sitting on the ground literally, my back against my fencelegs open shooting 10 20 30 40 50 yards, has anybody taken deer this way? The place i hunt is a golf course and the deer are use to humans,,,,,,,,,,go figure. im pumped just 2 weeks and im thinking of leaving summit home and giving the ground a try.
09-17-2009, 08:19 PM
#2
Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Plattsburgh NY - Living in Felton DE
Posts: 362
You can do it...killed my first buck on ground (still hunting though) sweet 21" 10pt...wow..that was awesome..damn near threw up after I grab hold of him I got so spun up! getn a shot on the ground is frikin AWESOME
09-17-2009, 11:34 PM
#3
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: outback Australia in england now
Posts: 603
my first whitetail was taken on the ground in michigan UP stalked intio a sleeping buck about 20 yards i think i nearly threw up to when i got hold of him only a small four pointer but he was a monster to me
09-18-2009, 10:52 AM
#6
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Surry County, Va
Posts: 334
Took my cousin opening day last year, it was his first bowhunt ever. He had been practicing with me all summer. He had a climber (which is what we practiced out of sometimes) but couldn't find a good tree. So he sat on the ground beside an open field. Stuck a nice 7ptr at about 25 yards. Hit him right in the numbers!!! Deer went maybe 30 yards in the woods and piled up..... Yes it can be done!
09-18-2009, 01:52 PM
#7
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: land of the Lilliputians, In the state of insanity
Posts: 26,274
I cant count the number of deer Ive shot while kneeling on the ground. Most with a 70" longbow, or 58" recurve. The key is; practice how in ways you might have to hunt. Opening day, I wont be hunting my land rather a good friends. Ill be on the ground the whole time. Mostly spot and stalk. When I get set, ill be in either a makes shift ground blind, or kneeling by a tree. Shot two deer on his land last season while kneeling in an open field, behind some tall grass, shooting an Osage selfbow 70" ntn.
09-18-2009, 04:55 PM
#8
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 6,867
Last year i hunted both on the ground and in my stand I was hunting a bean field by a creek. Sit there for 5 hours no deer no rattleing no nothing. I start walking out and see 8 deer headed toward me in the middle of the field. My first throught was move back to the blind. But i was 100 yard from the tree line or the blind with my bow in one had the handle of my deer cart in the other. I stand there full camo no orange(not law here during bow season) I figure they would go on the other way. They move 20 yards to 80 out infront of me. Then the odd part they see me and 5 out of 8 of them run 40 yards out and stop. i nock my arrow and come up slowly to draw. They move out to 80 yards and turn broadside. I almost shot the 4 point that was closes. But a 80 yard shot without having shot it before not me atleast without practice.
