Do you prefer hunting from blinds or treestands?
08-17-2016, 01:10 PM
#23
Super Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Trumbull County, Ohio
Posts: 9,208
I prefer to still hunt. Even with a bow I try to do that when the conditions are right for it. I use stands, ground blinds, box blinds, etc as the need arises. I try to have a few stands set up each season, as well as my climber. And my ground blind I can take with me wherever...From mid september-the end of January my vehicle has a climbing stand and ground blind in it all the time. Just depends which one I need
-Jake
-Jake
08-17-2016, 02:02 PM
#24
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: VA.
Posts: 1,413
08-18-2016, 12:16 PM
#25
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 1,926
Ha, naturally I'm different
I always felt tree stands were made for the warm south. Never used a tree stand in the frigid north, when It got cold. Staying up in a tree strand up north was like staying on a bridge in winter. Bridges usually freeze first. Cold winds get above and below a bridge, like they do tree stands.
Up north, I'd use a blind for protection for part of the day, and usually still hunt. Good idea to stay out of a cold wind for awhile
Have my own habits, which isn't consistent with most hunters. Oh well !
Up north, I'd use a blind for protection for part of the day, and usually still hunt. Good idea to stay out of a cold wind for awhile
Have my own habits, which isn't consistent with most hunters. Oh well !
08-19-2016, 05:58 AM
#26
Typical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: central wi
Posts: 629
I prefer ladder stands the most, But after back and shoulder surgery I do a lot of ground blind hunting now---pop up blinds are o k BUT here is my secret--I buy up older imitation xmas trees, they go for 5 to ten bucks---I make a circle of tree,s oh about a ten foot circle--takes about 9 or ten tree,s leave a hole for doorway, put a tree out front of doorway a couple of feet. put a swivel chair in middle---as each tree makes a v hole between each tree you adjust the limbs to make great shooting holes. I use these at rutting trails and narrows and at edges of hidden food plots have had deer within a couple of feet, had deer bedded under tree,s at times. and what a view !!
09-02-2016, 09:35 AM
#27
Spike
Join Date: Sep 2016
Posts: 15
For many reasons I prefer to be up off the ground. Most game looks up much less than ground level. Being up can lessen your scent some.
Some spots you can safely set up a blind.
And the big one safety. Shooting down is a whole lot safer.
A person really has to train themselves to look way beyond what you are shooting at. More so when you are shooting horizontally or upwards. Tunnel vision is common, especially when looking through a scope.
Funny story about that. I had put up a short shooting tower maybe 8 feet tall, 10 feet to the muzzle. Maybe the third time I'd used it, just before sunset a really nice Buck walks by downhill from me, I scope him, set my trigger and get ready to shoot when I see a flicker of light directly behind him.
You really have to train yourself to look behind whatever you are shooting at, it may save you a world of grief.
Some spots you can safely set up a blind.
And the big one safety. Shooting down is a whole lot safer.
A person really has to train themselves to look way beyond what you are shooting at. More so when you are shooting horizontally or upwards. Tunnel vision is common, especially when looking through a scope.
Funny story about that. I had put up a short shooting tower maybe 8 feet tall, 10 feet to the muzzle. Maybe the third time I'd used it, just before sunset a really nice Buck walks by downhill from me, I scope him, set my trigger and get ready to shoot when I see a flicker of light directly behind him.
You really have to train yourself to look behind whatever you are shooting at, it may save you a world of grief.
You better make sure your intended target is in the way of that bullet :P
09-03-2016, 04:04 PM
#28
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Southeast Missouri
Posts: 2,178
I prefere Deer Hunting from an elevated tree stand,I also have,a nice Rivers Edge ground blind a Climbing Stand and a couple of permanent elevated box blinds....I have also done some Still Hunting and even made a few ground blinds out of natural cover and fallen tree's.
Over all I'm at ease and love being up in a nice 15-17 foot ladder stand...I can see further,my scent is off the ground and I have taken many nice Doe's & Bucks from my ladder stands and several by just walking slowly and sitting down or falling asleep in the big timber.Best thing to do is try different things in different situations,try new and different ways to Hunt....be Versitile,try something different to change things up and enjoy being outside!
Over all I'm at ease and love being up in a nice 15-17 foot ladder stand...I can see further,my scent is off the ground and I have taken many nice Doe's & Bucks from my ladder stands and several by just walking slowly and sitting down or falling asleep in the big timber.Best thing to do is try different things in different situations,try new and different ways to Hunt....be Versitile,try something different to change things up and enjoy being outside!
09-04-2016, 06:29 AM
#29
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: On an Island in Vermont
Posts: 22,150
Most of the time when gun hunting I am on the ground since I am a still hunter. Occasionally I'll pack my climber and sit especially if it is in a pinch point. Bow hunting is always in the trees in either a climber or lock on.
Last edited by Champlain Islander; 09-04-2016 at 06:32 AM.
09-04-2016, 10:33 AM
#30
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 4,264
Started out stand hunting when I was a youth hunter, but have since gotten weary of it and favor still hunting. That said, there's not much point moving through the woods if you cannot see, so early in the morning I will sometimes sit in a stand or on the ground. A ground blind feels so unnecessarily constricting to me, somehow---however, I don't mind them as much for turkey hunting (maybe calling the game takes my mind off the close quarters).
