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Title: Whitetails from the ground (Natural)
Post by: Landshark160 on December 23, 2009, 11:36:00 AM: No pop up blinds please. Let's see some pics of deer taken from the ground, this season, from either all natural brush blinds or by spot and stalk.

Here's one I got lucky on and everything just fell into place. Spot and stalk across an open campground(WMA) in blue jeans and a T-shirt. :biglaugh: 15 yard shot.

(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r100/hookedn21/Deer/0b14d9be.jpg)
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Post by: Kevin L. on December 23, 2009, 12:14:00 PM: Here's one of mine. Spot and stalk from the porch of the camp through an overgrown field, on hands and knees. He bedded in some cedars and the wind was right, plus it covered my noise. Ended up with a 5yd shot.

(http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d47/Kevinl2067/halloween09004-1.jpg)
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Post by: waknstak IL on December 23, 2009, 12:42:00 PM: November 4th. 17 yard shot. just hiding behind a bush :)
(http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m94/waknstak/all163-1.jpg)
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Post by: centaur on December 23, 2009, 12:54:00 PM: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/ceastes/P1020836.jpg)

Posted this guy earlier, but here is another view, without the old guy (me) in the picture. Still hunting, 20 yard shot, 50 yard recovery. My avatar has the same deer.
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Post by: ron w on December 23, 2009, 01:30:00 PM: Excellent job...all of you!!!!
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Post by: mrpenguin on December 23, 2009, 01:39:00 PM: Man... It CAN be done!! Good job Gents!
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Post by: George D. Stout on December 23, 2009, 01:55:00 PM: I've taken my last four from the ground, the last two I was simply standing by a tree. Here's the last one.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/oldearcher46/10310005.jpg)
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Post by: buckracks7 on December 23, 2009, 02:16:00 PM: Shot through the heart on 11/28/09 while sitting in a hedge row.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v237/buckracks/DSCN03200165.jpg)
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Post by: Follower on December 23, 2009, 03:05:00 PM: I'd post the picture but I missed a 15 yard chip shot the other day. I was already butchering the deer in my mind and forgot to pick a spot!!!
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Post by: WESTBROOK on December 23, 2009, 03:19:00 PM: Way ta go guys! I came soooo.. close a number of times this year but there is always something that goes haywire.

Eric
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Post by: TSP on December 23, 2009, 04:08:00 PM: Atta' boys, nice goin'. What are those brown things sticking up between their ears? We don't seem to have any deer like that where I hunt. (First time I've ever hunted October AND November and never saw even ONE fresh scrape or rub. It's like the bucks were all watching football...probably where I should have been, lol)
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Post by: Kevin L. on December 23, 2009, 04:13:00 PM: Tony,
I had to drive all the way to Virginia to find a buck dumb enough to let me sneak up on him, LOL.

Kevin
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Post by: Covey on December 23, 2009, 04:45:00 PM: I love the ground hunting! came real close this year, hit a limb and skiped it right over her back! that was the only shot I had, but I've had deer close, maybe to close, and got busted several times! still have a few day's left and it aint over till it's over! HA! good job guy's, Jason
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Post by: Dusty Nethery on December 23, 2009, 05:29:00 PM: (http://i643.photobucket.com/albums/uu158/Stephen_M_Lathrop/dustys_09_buck2.jpg)

Posted this back in October and still smilin' about it today. I was standing next to a cherry tree alongside a standing beanfield with nothing but fresh Illinois air between us. Exciting to say the least!
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Post by: GingivitisKahn on December 23, 2009, 05:33:00 PM: Spot and stalk here. It was warm and we needed to get her processed, so this had to be an action shot...

(http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff187/GingivitisKahn/20090927_ac_02_jim_doe.jpg)
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Post by: TSP on December 23, 2009, 05:44:00 PM: Kevin dude, I saw that Virginia buck of yours. Now aren't you ashamed of bringing a 'porch buck' back home to Maine? I mean c'mon...5 yards? My arrows are longer than that. And in his bed to boot? You could've at least woken him up before shootin' the poor thing! :biglaugh:

What we need up here in Maine is a bunch of those standing bean fields like the Illinois fellas have. Gonna' hafta' order some standing bean seeds this year for sure... :)
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Post by: Crash on December 23, 2009, 05:44:00 PM: I truly enjoy hunting from the ground but always feel like the proverbial sore thumb. Can't seem to close the deal, always getting busted and it is very frustrating. I know the kill is not the main reason I hunt, but it is near the top of the list and I really like venison. Got a new spot that I just found a couple days ago that is very thick with little to no trees, so will spend some more time on the ground, hoping to find a deer that is blind in one eye and can't see out of the other.
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Post by: Kevin L. on December 23, 2009, 05:59:00 PM: Naww Tony, if I could have talked him into it, I woulda left the tailgate down on the truck and let him climb in before I shot, LOL. I had just spent 3 days chasing on old, dry doe that had more lives than all three of the kid's cats put together. I got at least two shots a day on her and had everything possible go wrong, including a string breaking at half draw. I figured the deer spirits owed me one by the time he came along.

Kevin
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Post by: TSP on December 23, 2009, 06:23:00 PM: :thumbsup: :notworthy:
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Post by: illianabowhntr67 on December 23, 2009, 07:02:00 PM: My wife laughs at me because I walk a mile to climb a tree.She sits a hundred yards from the house and shoots them off the ground.
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Post by: zipper bowss on December 23, 2009, 08:43:00 PM: (http://i628.photobucket.com/albums/uu4/zipperzbow/P1010277.jpg)
November 20th still hunting near standing corn
Bill
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Post by: Warden609 on December 23, 2009, 08:55:00 PM: This is a great thread. Keep the pictures coming.
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Post by: stickbow04 on December 24, 2009, 03:49:00 AM
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Post by: stickbow04 on December 24, 2009, 04:12:00 AM: got this little 4 pt hunting the ground in a natural blind by Del Rio TX. this Dec had a little snow that day and in the low 20s at night, that is not the weather that we are use of hunting in TEXAS. this FED. land will not let u feed, so I was on a rub/scrap line. (http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz223/aycockmi/PC070758-1.jpg)
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Post by: frassettor on December 24, 2009, 08:38:00 AM: Awesome pictures fellas! :notworthy: :notworthy: Im still trying in my Ghillie..Noting yet ,Hopefully someday :pray:
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Post by: Dave McDaniel on December 24, 2009, 08:42:00 AM: Very nice guy's congrats to all!
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Post by: JMartin on December 24, 2009, 08:47:00 AM: Fantastic stuff guys! Anytime you take a whitetail from the ground...that's something! Congrats! Kevin L. I LIKE that bow!
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Post by: on December 24, 2009, 08:54:00 AM: Good job fellas--that's the way to do it!
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Post by: Builder on December 24, 2009, 09:26:00 PM: Sure inspiring to see, I'm still climbing up in those stands after forty plus years.
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Post by: Zach Mikita on December 24, 2009, 10:16:00 PM: Builder I hear ya! I tagged a buck this year but still have two weeks to take a doe....may have to try this ground stuff :bigsmyl:
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Post by: Wary Buck on December 25, 2009, 03:55:00 PM: Stalked in standing corn during a windstorm Oct. 2 this past season. Shot at 10 yards. Coyotes got to him overnight, but still an intense and satisfying hunt. Was able to salvage some of meat.
(http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o94/WaryBuck/IMG_0804-1.jpg)

In this photo, I'm standing where buck was, and camera is where I was when the shot was made just before end of legal time.
(http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o94/WaryBuck/IMG_0785.jpg)

Four days later, posted up in standing corn and got this doe as she entered the field about 10 yards away.
(http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o94/WaryBuck/09BWLOct6doeincorn.jpg)

And then Oct. 21 took this deer while still hunting through a big CRP field at about 20 yards.
(http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o94/WaryBuck/IMG_0862.jpg)
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Post by: LimbLover on December 25, 2009, 05:29:00 PM: (http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p65/FadedGlory77/Deer3jpg.jpg)

At 25 yards while hidden within the branches of a fallen beach tree. I had a herd of approximately 20-25 does around me. Popped up, made the shot with the longbow and hardly any of them noticed. She dropped 20 yards later.
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Post by: Adam Keiper on December 27, 2009, 12:29:00 PM: Got this one on a rainy day stillhunt that turned into an 80 yd stalk. Got in for a 15-16 yd shot. Osage English longbow, low 70#'s probably at my hunting draw, 675 grn ash arrow shot off the knuckle.

(http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww48/Alpinbogen/2009bbuck110-15-09014a.jpg)
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Post by: Kevin L. on December 27, 2009, 04:15:00 PM: Dang Adam,

That's putting the real "Old School" hurting on one! Great job :clapper:
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Post by: TSP on December 27, 2009, 06:13:00 PM: Adam, that's pretty cool. Never saw a deer shot with a strung banana before.
:thumbsup:
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Post by: cacciatore on December 27, 2009, 06:22:00 PM: Adam,you are the man.Cool pics guys keep coming.
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Post by: Mojostick on December 27, 2009, 07:29:00 PM: I now only hunt "natural, on the ground". I gave up on treestands 2 years ago. I use a mix of pines, oak branches and beech branches for stick blinds because they hold the leaves best after being cut. I shot a buck and a doe this year. Both at 15 yards.
Although I have no pics. Didn't bother. I also missed what would have been best Michigan buck, a very nice 8pt. I grunted him in, he came in on a charge but busted me as I put my hand on the string. Frankly I got excited and moved a little too much too fast. Kind of a "holy @&*@" moment. But when he spotted me, he got nervous and turned before he was going to bolt and gave me a full broadside at 27 paces, which I do practice at. But in the heat of the moment, I misjudged the distance and shot about a foot under his lungs.
I'm done hunting out of treestands.
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Post by: widow sax on December 28, 2009, 01:21:00 AM: congrats to all that got one from the ground that is the hardest and most exciting way to get one. Widow
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Post by: Benny Nganabbarru on December 28, 2009, 02:44:00 AM: Well-done on some fine achievements, fellows!
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Post by: stickbowguy on December 28, 2009, 08:41:00 AM: Great pics guys, i hunted from the ground this year, no pop up blinds just on the ground with a little cover. I have never had deer so close to me then I did while on the ground. And seen the largest buck I have ever seen in person, live, in Michigan woods his year, a real tall and wide 8 or better. Watched him rubbing a tree for about 30 min. about 40 yards away, could only see his face and rack. Then watched him walk away. He never knew I was there. Also had a Doe face to face with me at about 3 yards, never did get a shot.
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Post by: Wiley Coyote on December 28, 2009, 04:09:00 PM: I have never shot a deer off the ground. I have had a few opportunities over the years but they never pan out. Congratulations to all of the ground hunters!!! :wavey:
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Post by: Builder on December 28, 2009, 04:17:00 PM: I think it's time for me to buck-up and hunt from the ground. You guys proved it's possible.
Old habits are hard to break however.
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Post by: Mojostick on December 28, 2009, 04:50:00 PM: My humble advice is, if you hunt in a very heavy pressured area like the central NLP of Michigan, you better build a birds nest around you with great background cover. That's why pines work so well.
What you can get away with in a mile section with 2-5 bowhunters on bigger private parcels vs a section with 15-30 bowhunters revolving in and out with a mix of small private and public land is night and day.
There is no room to overlook any detail with intensely pressured whitetails. While I know many can kill deer from the ground in plaid with lighter cover, at least in my area, which happens to be the heaviest hunted county in the heaviest bowhunted state, I suggest you have head to toe good camo, with facemask and gloves covering hands. IMO, ASAT and Predator are best for hunting intensely pressured whitetails from the ground. But it does depend on your area. About 50% of the land around me is heavily hunted public land. My area fawns are more spooky than some bucks I've seen in other area's. LOL
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Post by: Trab on December 28, 2009, 05:26:00 PM: I got my 1st deer of my life this season.......did it with a longbow from a tree.....a small buttonbuck..... but I have a STRONG desire to improve my skills on the ground. A couple of weeks after my first taste of success, I was on the ground, and had an awesome game of cat and mouse with a doe..I was kneeling down, bent over a fall down tree, trying to blend in as she approached.......after about 2-3 minutes of her walking around trying to deke me into moving, she walked past a tree and gave me the opportunity to squat up fast and get into to shooting position....as she cleared the tree my arrow was already pointing right at her....well, right toward her anyway....as my adrenaline reached a height it hasn't reached in a long time, I took aim and shot....but in all the excitement, I forgot to pick a hair spot, and merely shot at the silhouette.....the arrow went about 3 inches over her back and stuck into a tree directly behind her....the shot was only 10 or 12 yards away, but I missed....she still had no clue I was a human, and ran off only at a slow pace to about 25 yards....I even notched another arrow, but she slowly walked in the opposite direction, hardly scared at all.....
WOW......all you tree guys think about the thrill I'm describing....it was awesome, even in "defeat" !!!!! Yea, the ground is SURREAL......... and it's the way to go for me :)
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Post by: FlightMedic744 on December 28, 2009, 05:46:00 PM: Great pics guys! And some great stories.
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Post by: Cyclic-Rivers on December 28, 2009, 07:02:00 PM: I have hunted from the ground a lot over the years, had many opportunities and yet to kill a deer. I love it but at times places require tree stands. I was busted this year immediately on one property, just couldn't seem to hide enough for the deer!

Congrats on some fine deer. Gotta love the excitement of ground hunting.