I'd agree with you there in principal. However, in practice there are many places where ground hunting significantly reduces your chance of even seeing a deer. If you ever get to walk around in an area covered with palmettos, you'll see what I'm talking about. You sound like a heard of cows while walking through them and you can't see squat more than a few yards ahead.
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Back The Truck Up
- Thread starter Saltydog235
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I'd agree with you there in principal. However, in practice there are many places where ground hunting significantly reduces your chance of even seeing a deer. If you ever get to walk around in an area covered with palmettos, you'll see what I'm talking about. You sound like a heard of cows while walking through them and you can't see squat more than a few yards ahead.
Saltydog235
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We have low box stands as well as ladder stands on the club. I prefer the ladder stands because they get me up in the air and allow me to see "down" into the cover a little better. The areas I like to hunt the most are thick, swampy, brush choked areas with shooting lanes that have to be cut in and cleaned up every year. Down my way, you don't see a big buck come out into open unsheltered areas very often. They tend to prefer areas where relative safety is a step or two away. They don't get big and old by being stupid and careless and they'll stay off in the woods 200yds and pick you up in a heartbeat even in a stand. Contrary to some beliefs, deer do look up.
That buck came out and went to the feeder where I got a count on his rack. However I couldn't get a measure of his width. I got the gun in position and down on the scope, then made a slight clicking sound to get him to look up. I knew when he did, it could be a quick shot. He looked up and I measured him. He put his head back down and I put 2lbs of pressure on the Timney and sent 150grns of 7mm08 BT into the high shoulder. I had to take the drop him there shot as it was incredibly thick and I didn't want to track him through that hog/snake infested area in the growing dusk.
The thing is right before he came out, I had been thinking of Dad and all the hunting and fishing trips we had. I was also thinking about my boys and how I wanted to pass those same memories and lessons on to them. Call it divine providence, luck or whatever but this is one that is going to stick with me a lot more than some other hunts. He isn't my biggest but definitely the most memorable other than my first little 6 point.
That buck came out and went to the feeder where I got a count on his rack. However I couldn't get a measure of his width. I got the gun in position and down on the scope, then made a slight clicking sound to get him to look up. I knew when he did, it could be a quick shot. He looked up and I measured him. He put his head back down and I put 2lbs of pressure on the Timney and sent 150grns of 7mm08 BT into the high shoulder. I had to take the drop him there shot as it was incredibly thick and I didn't want to track him through that hog/snake infested area in the growing dusk.
The thing is right before he came out, I had been thinking of Dad and all the hunting and fishing trips we had. I was also thinking about my boys and how I wanted to pass those same memories and lessons on to them. Call it divine providence, luck or whatever but this is one that is going to stick with me a lot more than some other hunts. He isn't my biggest but definitely the most memorable other than my first little 6 point.
warbirdlover
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We hunt a woods with rolling hills and oak trees. My (ground) box stand sits on top of one of the highest hills. I had a rickety, old elevated box stand there and I can see just as well from the ground.