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Joined: Nov 2017
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4 point
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How successful are y'all hunting in the open like this, from the ground?
A Bullet Always Tells The Truth
DON'T PISS DOWN MY BACK AND TELL ME IT'S RAIN
Wars Come and Go But My Soldier Remains Eternal
"Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to!"
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Posts: 37,400 Likes: 67
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Sep 2004
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I have killed a truckload of deer slipping slooooowly along or just sitting against a tree.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 22,608 Likes: 22
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Nov 2011
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If you hunt in an area with a lot of deer, you're going to be successful. If you hunt in a crappy area with few deer, it doesn't matter what you do.
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Posts: 14,515
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Nov 2015
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I was in a turkey lounger a week ago and watched 4 deer feed about 30 yards in front of me. One doe fed to within about 12 yards of me and the wind shifted. She stomped and would take a step forward. Stomp and take another step forward. She got within 7 yards of me before she figured me out. I was in camo from head to foot.
"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
-G. K. Chesterton
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Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 12,148 Likes: 42
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Oct 2012
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I kill the majority of my deer from the ground. No blind. Just a gun and gobbler lounger. Very effective, but you got to play the wind and thermals.
Well, the way I see it is there's just too many assholes
On a good day there's a bunch of assholes in here.
On a bad day there's too many assholes in here.
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Posts: 7,070 Likes: 18
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 7,070 Likes: 18 |
All 5 deer my son and I have killed this year have been from the ground. 4 from the same $12 ground blind and one from a pop-up blind.
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Posts: 3,291
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Apr 2015
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I've hunted equally as much from the ground (hammock seat, no blind) this year and have seen just as many deer doing so. Had several within 30 yards up to as close as 10 yards. Having good cover at your back is key, and I do make sure to have on good camo head to toe. The important factor outside hunting the right wind is to sit STILL. Having a good seat hunting on the ground is the most important aspect to being able to sit still enough. Killed a nice 7 point during muzzeloader season at 25 yards sitting on the ground, he never had a clue I was there. As has been mentioned, if you don't get the wind right you can toss the rest of the tactics out the window.
Last edited by NWALJM; 12/16/19 03:13 PM.
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Posts: 2,216 Likes: 9
8 point
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8 point
Joined: Aug 2019
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I always enjoy hunting from the ground and just walking slowly. The property has to be open enough to see, also the sun(not in your eyes), wind( blowing slightly to help hide your movement). It is amazing sometimes how deer will literally walk within feet of you before they even recognize something is up.
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Joined: Nov 2012
Posts: 1,508
8 point
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I took a camp chair and sat in a bunch of pines a week or so ago and had a 4 point walk within 5 yards of me. Never spooked just feed on by on his way. I need the wind to get right and I’ll slip back in there got several does on camera.
The secret to a long marriage is to keep on dating, just as you did before marriage. We have "date night" once a week.
Hers is Saturday, mine is Thursday.
The only time a married woman gives those is if your not married to them!
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Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Ben Franklin
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Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
Joined: Mar 2018
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[video:youtube] https://youtu.be/ANrPaM3Lzz8[/video] Hunt the wind this was couple weeks ago
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Ben Franklin
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Posts: 27,316 Likes: 252
Pumpkin - The Thermal Expert
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Pumpkin - The Thermal Expert
Joined: Dec 2015
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I like to hunt off a bluff. Thats about the only time I sit on the ground.
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Posts: 352
4 point
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4 point
Joined: Oct 2015
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My dad hunts on the ground. A lot of time he will sit in between rocks and has shot deer that have about walked over him.
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Joined: Dec 2013
Posts: 1,805 Likes: 3
8 point
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Joined: Dec 2013
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In my woods, I could sit dern near anywhere on the ground with just a chair and if deer are in the area and wind right, they could go by 10-15 yds out and never know I was there. Need to do more of it. I have some real thick woods. Only real issue is the damned wind twirls and swirls like a belly dancer!
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Joined: Nov 2019
Posts: 1,050
6 point
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6 point
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I like to take a summit climber top and hunt from the ground. It's a very comfortable set up for me .
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Posts: 3,148 Likes: 15
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Dec 2018
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I like to take a summit climber top and hunt from the ground. It's a very comfortable set up for me . not a bad idea 
To GOD be All the glory!!!
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Posts: 12,691 Likes: 120
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Dec 2016
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If im not in a ground blind im sitting in a chair with my shooting stix at the ready....killed many deer and hogs doing this
When I need expert advice I tend to talk to myself
The older I get the better I used to be
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Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Nov 2015
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I know a guy who hunts in bluejeans, flannel shirt, covered in concrete (his living) who sits in the $5 walmart plastic chairs (white might I add) as pulls out deer all the time. Big ole bucks too.
Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
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14 point
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Joined: Nov 2002
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I take a turkey chair and snuggle up next to a tree or make a little ground blind. The wind is the key.
If you always do what you've always done you always get what you've always got
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14 point
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Me and 3 other guys hunt public land 10x per year. We always hunt from the ground. Less weight to carry in and out means we can get much deeper in the woods. Going in by water in the morning to hunt a landlocked piece of forest property. Or landlocked on a couple sides anyway lol.
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