Still Hunting

[vern faulkner]

I'm getting older (or lazier) so I spend more time on my butt now. Enjoy a pipe while taking in the scenery, and wondering where the heck I am.

Vern

 

[Skylinewatcher]

I don't hunt out of tree stands, got many friends who do. I both still and stalk hunt. I use ground blinds made out of available material. I usually bulid anywhere from 2 to 10 on the properties I hunt, I will still hunt back and forth between them. If I come to a good spot while hunting I will try to build one there and then. I have taken many does about an hour after building a ground blind they just had to know what I was doing. I had a really big man teach me how to low crawl and I use this technique in the thickets. If the way you sneak through the woods would look stupid in public, you're probably doing it right. :grin:

 

[Skylinewatcher]

:rotf: you reminded me of the time some friends and I went hunting with and ol' cuss deep in a river bottom. To sum it up, it was getting late and we thought the old man got lost. We fired our rifles yelled and screamed for two hours. We finaly found the old man and the first thing he said was, "WHAT THE H@!! IS WRONG WITH Y'ALL" We told him how we thought he was lost and how we were trying to help. He cussed us for insulting him for 30 min and then asked us to lead the way out. We looked around and found we had no idea. He lead us back to the truck. :redface:

 

[Stumpkiller]

Guess I am the only proud treestand hunter, oh well. :idunno:

Still hunting is fun but just another trick in my bag, it all depends on the situation as to the way I hunt a certain area. Chris

Never pulled a gun up into a tree, but I have used them with success with my bow. Have had success still-hunting with the bow, too. In this area it's too damn cold and windy to sit in a tree during regular or late (muzzleloading) season. I have to move to keep from stiffening up.

 

[August West]

Yeah I can imagine, even though I live in NC I do the majority of my hunting in GA and south Ga at that, cold is usually something we don't have to worry about. Now skeeters, noseeums and ticks will sometimes make you want to jump out of the tree. People talk about it being boring, but it really isn't for me. After I get situated and the woods start to get back to normal I always have birds, squirrels, armidillos, pigs, turkeys you name it to keep me company. Some of the most enjoyable times I can think of is a nice cool relaxing day sitting watching the wildlife go about it's normal business.

One day sitting close to the swamp I laughed out loud watching 3 otters rough house and play. Maybe I could have had as good a view on the ground, maybe not, but sitting in my stand I for sure had a birds eye view. Chris

 

[rabjr]

Not all of can do this. It would be my choice if I could but I'll have to wait for another lifetime. I did have a few years starting out to still hunt though and really enjoyed getting up close and personal with deer. Now I have to read the land and determine the best ambush site and sit quitely.

 

[vern faulkner]

A number of years ago I was hunting on the east side of a really steep ridge. While sitting about 30 feet from the top of the ridge I heard a really strange noise coming from above me. Kind of like a rushing of air or something. It kept getting louder and louder. Thought that maybe it was some kind of UFO or something. Started getting pretty nervous about it. Just when I thought that it could get no louder, a great big hot air balloon floated over the top. It couldn't have been over 20 feet above the tree tops. Another first for me. See all kinds of weird stuff while just sitting.

 

[Pete Gaimari]

You could even see a still hunter sneaking by.

He'll probably see you first though. :wink:

 

[August West]

Maybe, but I have spoken to few that were right on top of me "sneaking" by and I am pretty sure that they had to go clean out their drawers. Chris

 

[Pete Gaimari]

Few..is the key word. :grin:

The ones good at it will see you. Deer don't look up. Humans do.

 

[rabjr]

Deer don't look up

They most certainly do.

 

[August West]

I like still hunting for people, that is really fun, matter of fact I have a big game on Saturday. Hey Capper you should give paintball a try, see how good you really are.

I sure wish deer didn't look up, who ever started that myth didn't know what the hell he was talking about. Chris

 

[Pete Gaimari]

Stop moving and smelling bad, and they'll stop looking at you.

 

[August West]

Stop moving and smelling bad, and they'll stop looking at you.

Man you crack me up, how do you presume to know how I smell and how much I move.

 

[Pete Gaimari]

I figured you smell like a human.

Deer don't instinctively look up for danger. If they hear, smell, or see movement. They'll look at you.

 

[August West]

Deer don't instinctively look up for danger.

They do now, I have no idea how deer acted before people started hunting them from trees.

If the wind is wrong you probably won't see a deer look up because they won't be around in the first place. As far as movement, with my bow, yeah, I get busted a lot, with a gun, not so much. Chris

 

[rabjr]

Any place that has a lot of pressure hunting, you will find deer looking up. Due to many people using tree stands. Ask anyone thats spent more than one day bow hunting Prudence Island about deer looking up. They are so used to bow hunters in trees they don't go far without looking up. Something I take full advantage of lol and have been able to take some nice deer cause they had no idea I was sitting there on the grown. :haha:

 

[Pete Gaimari]

I suppose if you train them to look up they do it.


They can look up all they want here. I won't be there.

 

[August West]

They can look up all they want here. I won't be there.

So is hunting from a treestand some how wrong or you have tried it and just don't enjoy it?

 

[Pete Gaimari]

This thread is about the joy of still hunting.

I don't want to argue with a tree hunter about it. If in 60 years of hunting I haven't tried stand hunting. It's a good bet that it doesn't appeal to me. :idunno: