BEST bear hunting video I have EVER watched...

[Castor Muscular]

Hardly a fair assessment of tree stand hunting.  If you can stalk and shoot trophy bucks with a bow, more power to you.  I use a climbing stand that I pack in and position between bedding areas and feeding areas.  Pick a pinch point, and sit and wait.  If you think you are going to slip in on deer and shoot them while they are bedding or feeding, you better bring a camera so you can mount pictures of their white tails as they bound away -- cause that is all you are going to take.

If I were a lucky buck, I'd be busy making a little doe.  Think of the fawn we'd have. 

 

[ChuckBob]

I tried to teach a Missionary to Canada, when he was in Bible College, at HAC, about stalking.  He insisted on positioning himself in a tree stand across from a tree rub that I showed him, from a pretty tall Buck.  I told him that I would walk the herd right past him, and I went off to circle the thicket they were bedding in.  I woke up the fawns, and they looked at Momma, like, 'who is he, and what do we do?'  I told them to head out, and they did, slowly meandering down their trail, right towards the rub.  I made it back to my partner, expecting lunch, and was disappointed.  He had never shot his bow at a moving target before.  Even though they were just walking, he couldn't pull it off.  From up there, most shots were obstructed by limbs. 
  I never tried to hunt with him again.  Some people are more into their gear,  gadgets, trophies, than they are eating, I guess.  I don't understand sitting in a tree for hours.  Go out and meet n greet em, make new friends.  Then they'll share their meat with you.
  I put in for bear draw lottery this year.  I know where mishka mukwa is hiding, if they pull my name.  Hopefully he is full of berries and trout, when I catch up to him.

Anishinabe

Hardly a fair assessment of tree stand hunting.  If you can stalk and shoot trophy bucks with a bow, more power to you.  I use a climbing stand that I pack in and position between bedding areas and feeding areas.  Pick a pinch point, and sit and wait.  If you think you are going to slip in on deer and shoot them while they are bedding or feeding, you better bring a camera so you can mount pictures of their white tails as they bound away -- cause that is all you are going to take.

You've got that right.


ChuckBob

 

[prophet]

I tried to teach a Missionary to Canada, when he was in Bible College, at HAC, about stalking.  He insisted on positioning himself in a tree stand across from a tree rub that I showed him, from a pretty tall Buck.  I told him that I would walk the herd right past him, and I went off to circle the thicket they were bedding in.  I woke up the fawns, and they looked at Momma, like, 'who is he, and what do we do?'  I told them to head out, and they did, slowly meandering down their trail, right towards the rub.  I made it back to my partner, expecting lunch, and was disappointed.  He had never shot his bow at a moving target before.  Even though they were just walking, he couldn't pull it off.  From up there, most shots were obstructed by limbs. 
  I never tried to hunt with him again.  Some people are more into their gear,  gadgets, trophies, than they are eating, I guess.  I don't understand sitting in a tree for hours.  Go out and meet n greet em, make new friends.  Then they'll share their meat with you.
  I put in for bear draw lottery this year.  I know where mishka mukwa is hiding, if they pull my name.  Hopefully he is full of berries and trout, when I catch up to him.

Anishinabe

Hardly a fair assessment of tree stand hunting.  If you can stalk and shoot trophy bucks with a bow, more power to you.  I use a climbing stand that I pack in and position between bedding areas and feeding areas.  Pick a pinch point, and sit and wait.  If you think you are going to slip in on deer and shoot them while they are bedding or feeding, you better bring a camera so you can mount pictures of their white tails as they bound away -- cause that is all you are going to take.

If you say so.  I've never hunted Whitetail any other way.  Of course, I grew up in the swamps of the Calumet, hunting in the Dunes.  Every time I have ever walked into their bedding area, in the early gray, they just look at me. I reached out to pat a fawn on the head once, and he stood up, took a step back out of reach, towards the doe, and stared. 
  Every mammal I have ever hunted, I have circled it, and walked it into an ambush.  It's 'how I roll'.  Even mice.  If you stomp on the ground hard, a small mammal will startle, and change direction.  Keep it up, moving back and forth, and stomping, and they will eventually panic, and run right to ya.
  The deer feed at dusk, on the South side of hills, and they don't pay attention very well at that time. 

Anishinabe