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Author Topic: GROUND HUNTING ADVICE  (Read 5199 times)

Offline TOMANZ

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GROUND HUNTING ADVICE
« on: October 18, 2024, 09:52:45 PM »
This season I am deer hunting public land. I am not using a tree stand, as I only use ladder stands and with limited time and set-up, take down and toting is out of the question. Been setting up on ground, off trails and bedding areas. Looking for any tips. I'm making natural blinds and utilizing a bit of duck blind camo tacked around me. Thanks in advance and have a wonderful season!

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Re: GROUND HUNTING ADVICE
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2024, 10:19:53 PM »
Robert Carter has some YouTube videos about ground hunting. He hunts traditional and knows what he’s talking about.
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Re: GROUND HUNTING ADVICE
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2024, 07:09:49 AM »
Scent control and movement.  Do as much as possible to contain and eliminate your scent.  Limit your movements, do not make any abrupt head turns.  Do not make any rapid foot shifts that will make noise, which leads me to clear the ground of any leaves, twigs and debris that will sound like an earthquake in the silence.
I use a homemade ghillie suit when I hunt from the ground, and I always incorporate face paint, especially around my eyes.
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Re: GROUND HUNTING ADVICE
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2024, 07:58:59 AM »
Al nailed it. Make sure you are set up so you are down wind. I had two yearlings move by me. I had a ghilli suit on and a really good natural blind.

One of the deer got a whiff of me. It knew I was there but couldn’t find me. It finally dead a full circle around me and I think figured out where I was and then they moved off.
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Re: GROUND HUNTING ADVICE
« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2024, 08:41:13 AM »
Have a good pair of small binoculars and scan the brush a lot. Your visibility is limited on the ground so you need to look a lot more for parts of a deer, flicking tail, head going up and down, anything like that. try to sense them before they do you.
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Re: GROUND HUNTING ADVICE
« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2024, 10:02:34 AM »
It's a different experience,  for sure.  Two years ago I had a shoulder issue so I bought a crossbow.  My first sit in the stand I said to myself,  " This isn't bow hunting. "   So I decided to level the playing field a little by getting on their level.  I also used a ghillie suit most of the time but they still see you and know when something new has been added to their living room floor. I kind of decided to just shoot the first deer if you want to kill anything because eventually one of them is going to go to blowing the alarm.   The intensity of having them walk right up on you is amazing. 

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Re: GROUND HUNTING ADVICE
« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2024, 10:05:21 AM »
It's also pretty easy to shoot a button buck on the ground because you can't see the top of their head.   Ask me how I know.   

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Re: GROUND HUNTING ADVICE
« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2024, 12:01:13 PM »
What everyone else said and always easier after a rain.
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Re: GROUND HUNTING ADVICE
« Reply #8 on: December 06, 2024, 05:26:36 PM »
Have a good pair of small binoculars and scan the brush a lot. Your visibility is limited on the ground so you need to look a lot more for parts of a deer, flicking tail, head going up and down, anything like that. try to sense them before they do you.
I started ground hunting a couple of years ago and have a hard time with the limited visibility, it would seem scanning with binoculars would produce too much movement.

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Re: GROUND HUNTING ADVICE
« Reply #9 on: December 06, 2024, 05:42:30 PM »
Man, I need to do a video or 70  :biglaugh:

Seriously, there are so many things that you can do to set yourself up for success, and so many things you can do to put the deer where you want them, and even direct them into a trap.

You will feel like a neon sign when you 1st start, but  you will grow as a hunter by leaps and bounds just like you did when you gave up the gun.

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Re: GROUND HUNTING ADVICE
« Reply #10 on: December 06, 2024, 06:19:58 PM »
I have been saddle and ground hunting central Illinois public ground for last 15 years.  I walk in with playing wind find sign use woodsmanship and set up hunt.  I wear wool all time, only thing I do if hang outside when I smoke something.  Works for me

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Re: GROUND HUNTING ADVICE
« Reply #11 on: December 06, 2024, 07:04:48 PM »
Man, I need to do a video or 70  :biglaugh:

Seriously, there are so many things that you can do to set yourself up for success, and so many things you can do to put the deer where you want them, and even direct them into a trap.

You will feel like a neon sign when you 1st start, but  you will grow as a hunter by leaps and bounds just like you did when you gave up the gun.
At my age I don’t have too much time 😂.

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Re: GROUND HUNTING ADVICE
« Reply #12 on: December 06, 2024, 09:08:10 PM »
Robert Carter has some YouTube videos about ground hunting. He hunts traditional and knows what he’s talking about.

agree with this. I enjoy his channel.
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Re: GROUND HUNTING ADVICE
« Reply #13 on: December 07, 2024, 02:13:39 AM »
I think the you tube channel is southern outdoorsmen or something like that. Look up the videos with Travis Murray. It’s also on Spotify. You’ll learn all you need to know with Travis.
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Re: GROUND HUNTING ADVICE
« Reply #14 on: December 07, 2024, 06:12:01 AM »
Man, I need to do a video or 70  :biglaugh:

Seriously, there are so many things that you can do to set yourself up for success, and so many things you can do to put the deer where you want them, and even direct them into a trap.

You will feel like a neon sign when you 1st start, but  you will grow as a hunter by leaps and bounds just like you did when you gave up the gun.


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Re: GROUND HUNTING ADVICE
« Reply #15 on: December 07, 2024, 11:12:36 AM »
So much great information in this book.

I had the awesome privelage of discussing this book for HOURS with Fred in his office.

The best advise I took from this book and our talks....don't set up too close to where you expect to see a deer...still one of my flaws. :biglaugh:

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Re: GROUND HUNTING ADVICE
« Reply #16 on: December 12, 2024, 08:56:38 AM »
So much great information in this book.

I had the awesome privelage of discussing this book for HOURS with Fred in his office.

The best advise I took from this book and our talks....don't set up too close to where you expect to see a deer...still one of my flaws. :biglaugh:




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Re: GROUND HUNTING ADVICE
« Reply #17 on: December 12, 2024, 02:33:40 PM »
So much great information in this book.

I had the awesome privelage of discussing this book for HOURS with Fred in his office.

The best advise I took from this book and our talks....don't set up too close to where you expect to see a deer...still one of my flaws. :biglaugh:





is this book out of print? I have both of the Instinctive Shooting books, but need another copy of this one. does Teresa sell it?

edit: answered my own question, haha.
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Re: GROUND HUNTING ADVICE
« Reply #18 on: December 12, 2024, 04:01:21 PM »
Yes, great read.
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Re: GROUND HUNTING ADVICE
« Reply #19 on: December 13, 2024, 06:35:16 AM »
So much great information in this book.

I had the awesome privelage of discussing this book for HOURS with Fred in his office.

The best advise I took from this book and our talks....don't set up too close to where you expect to see a deer...still one of my flaws. :biglaugh:





is this book out of print? I have both of the Instinctive Shooting books, but need another copy of this one. does Teresa sell it?

edit: answered my own question, haha.
https://asbellwool.com/products/stalking-still-hunting

It is available on both my website and at Asbell Wool
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