I have seen Dan use a folding wooden ladder for gun hunts. Has anybody used this during bow hunting.
I have been foiled several times this year by setting up too far back from bedding areas, but there is nothing but brush and cat tails to setup in.
The spot I am in has some scrubby tree and brush that juts out into the cattails. About 75-100 yards from edge of brush into the cattails are some other brush pockets that the deer are bedding in. Closest I got was about 100-150 yards from bedding on heavy trail, in treestand two sticks off of the ground in tiny 3inch diameter tree and I'm still about 50-75 yards too far back. I can here them slowly sloshing up from the cattails up into the brush.
The only thing I can think of is using a wooden ladder or tripod (maybe I'll make something custom and lightweight) and set it on the leading point of brush and whack'em right where cattails meet brush.
idk, thoughts?
"LADDER" STAND BOW HUNTING TACTIC
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Re: "LADDER" STAND BOW HUNTING TACTIC
I’ve never done it with a bow- but if i did I’d pick a windy day to do it. It’s not easy to be stealthy when you’re dragging a ladder through the marsh
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matt1336 wrote:I’ve never done it with a bow- but if i did I’d pick a windy day to do it. It’s not easy to be stealthy when you’re dragging a ladder through the marsh
I hear ya. That's why I'm thinking maybe I can come up with something more portable and lightweight, there no way I'm dragging a giant ladder a mile through the marsh, haha
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Make a marsh seat and hunt off the ground. You can use 2x4s - we use those or wooden bar stools for duck hunting - the bar stools sink in to the first wooden rung and stay put.
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I did it with a bow when I hunted in the brush country. Everyone else was buying tripods and I already had 12 ft ladder, worked fine I always shot while seated. That was about 12 years 40lbs ago don't think u could pay me to sit on that thing all day anymore. Starts cutting into your after a hour or so
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Your timing is perfect - DIYSportsman / Garrett just poseted this yesterday - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9Ww8RYE5Ug
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