I made a promise to myself when I got into trad last year that I wanted to kill my first deer on the ground with no ground blind. NOTHING AT ALL AGAINST THEM, or tree stands its just how I wanted to do it.
I'm set up with a full view of the alfalfa field but still able to shoot in the creek if needed. I grab some tumble weeds and place them around me and set up a nice natural ground blind, nothing special. Not much after I get that done I see a doe enter the field 200 yards away. Soon after her a little buck comes in the field and chases her to the other side of the property, fun to watch the action start to heat up. I start to lightly rattle just to stir things up, and in the past I've had great luck this last week of October with rattling.
Doe's and buck start to pour out of the picked corn field above the alfalfa, not because of the rattle just because its their routine. I'm watching and the later it gets the bigger the bucks get. They finally start to filter down toward me, when I see one doe way out in front of the others. The way she was going she was ending up behind me, down wind. As I watch all the deer in the alfalfa, around 10-15, I hear a deer eating beside me. I grab my bow and get ready....