Hunting white tail from the ground?

I hunt from a ground blind. +1 for the edge of a field. The deer like to walk by the treeline instead of across but they cut the corner sometimes. Either way you can see them. Bigger the field. Bigger the chance they have to hug treeline to cross it.
 
FishHog said:
Good advice, and one more to add is the time you give a deer to react to the sound of the shot. To me 40yd is max with a bow/crossbow and that is on a relaxed deer, not one that is on high alert. Just because you can stick an arrow in a target much further than that, does not make it an ethical shot. And yes, I'm sure lot of people have heard stories of guys killing deer at 70yds or more. The thing is they never talk about all the wounded ones they shot at and never recovered at those ranges
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Yep, that is another good point about the deer being able to jump the string... and 40 yds is about the max before they can do it. I have made a follow up shot on a deer at 70 yards and the bolt didn't exit... it was entirely inside the deer though. This is the reason my xbow is dialed in out to 80 yards and I haven't bothered practicing farther.
 
My favourite thing to do is find a field that closely borders scrub or bush and sit leaning against the corner post as corner posts are larger than posts on the line fence as long as you are reasonably still and hunt crosswind.
 
remyltr said:
LOL

try strategically placing some of that old rusty crap
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I didn't have much choice. I was either unborn, or under the age of 6....

LOL.

We do have a couple old combines that we could use as elevated hides....provided we don't fall through the rust to a tetanus induced death.
 
bandit86 said:
Is it possible? Everybody seems to be up in the trees on stands. How would up I hunt them from the ground?
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Yes but depends on hunting pressure. No pressure on my property or surrounding land.

My property has a ground blind, two elevated blinds 6 ft off the ground and several tree stand.

One evening I was stuck in my elevated blind for two hours after legal shooting light when a doe and fawn came in to feed. I started to bark like a dog to scare them away and that didn't work, they just move off 50 yards from my blind and watched me climb down and walk away.

Advice... get up early and in your blind and hour before dawn, not sunrise. Move quietly and scan with an LED flashlight on your way to your blind so you don't bump into deer by surprise, You'll see their eyes. Practice good scent control.

Another advice... be committed and be persistence. Be comfortable but resist falling asleep. Don't believe yourself that you'll be able to hear a deer walk in while you take a nap. Bring a 4L bottle to pee in.
 
Grizzly Adams said:
What's a tree stand ? :) Meant for the lazy and many way more productive ways to hunt them.

Grizz
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Sorry partner... this is BS... there are many more exciting or interesting ways to hunt whitetails than from a treestand, but for the average hunter, there are no more PRODUCTIVE ways to hunt whitetails.
 
Also, for the archers out there... practice, practice, practice... but understand that "time in flight" is the limiting factor for ethical shooting range, not your accuracy at a specific distance, although your "inaccuracy" can "shorten" the range considerably. Embrace that archery is a short range, personal-space game and concentrate on gaining the skills required to get within that range on your undisturbed quarry...
 
The hike to some of my tree stands are not for weak, the trek out much harder.
I cover most of the food groups, hunt Bow, Rifle, Muzzle Loader from the land, sea or air..
 
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