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| Posted: 16 Jul 2008 3:45 PM | ||
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My grandpa says that this used to be a very popular tactic years ago. Has anyone ever killed a deer by hunting from down in a hole? I always thought about it. Its gotta look alot more natural that a blind to the deer. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. I get a kick out of hunting from the ground sometimes. __________________ EAT SLEEP HUNT Make your dreams a reality. Take a kid hunting. Film your next hunt. www.nloutdoors.com
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| Posted: 16 Jul 2008 3:47 PM | ||
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I think I want to try it this year just for fun. Dig out a hole and brush it in a little bit with just enough room for shooting lanes to shoot through. __________________ EAT SLEEP HUNT Make your dreams a reality. Take a kid hunting. Film your next hunt. www.nloutdoors.com
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| Posted: 16 Jul 2008 3:52 PM | ||
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For bow hunting Im not sure how well it would work, but for gun hunting it might be very helpful. __________________ "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote" - Benjamin Franklin
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| Posted: 16 Jul 2008 4:04 PM | ||
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 __________________ When a gun-hunter sees the animal he wants- the hunts over. When a bow-hunter sees the animal he wants, the hunt is just begining !
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| Posted: 16 Jul 2008 4:06 PM | ||
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Why not. __________________ "To be unarmed and therefore helpless in the face of evil is irresponsible and in fact complicit to said evil. If you knowingly and intentionally go forward incapable of stopping evil, you assist in its progress. Only a person free to choose to protect himself is truly respecting God's gift of life." Ted Nugent
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| Posted: 16 Jul 2008 4:13 PM | ||
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Bri, its a great idea. You can do that on YOUR properties and I'll film ya.
I've dug more than a few fox hole in my day, then filled them in, then dug them again, then filled them in and then dug them again.. Ahhhh. Infantry training...What a fond experience !! __________________ When a gun-hunter sees the animal he wants- the hunts over. When a bow-hunter sees the animal he wants, the hunt is just begining !
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| Posted: 16 Jul 2008 4:24 PM | ||
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My grandpa says that this used to be a very popular tactic years ago. For some because it was legal to bait that way. Chris has it down if you dig a good hole and brush it in it is a far less noticeable ground blind than if the whole thing were above ground. Many pronghorn hunters make these out west a large diamiter hole that you brush in and sit on the edge of with you feet and bowlimb down in. This makes you less than half your regular hight and well hidden near a water hole or fence crossing. All of this before pop up blinds and portable treestands. __________________ The biggest thing I have learned of late is that many legislators will side with us if we patently and intelegently explain to them where we are coming from and where we are going.
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| Posted: 16 Jul 2008 4:41 PM | ||
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Pit blinds work great for duck hunting I never realy thought about hunting deer out of one, I dont see why it wont work, plus its warmer in a hole then it is in a tree stand 
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| Posted: 16 Jul 2008 5:01 PM | ||
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| My salem lease had a goose pit in the middle of about 50 ac of open field. Once the deer got wise they would run to the center befoer they would feed. That pit helped me put down more than a few deer. | ||
| Posted: 16 Jul 2008 5:03 PM | ||
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or just find a big deadfall that the roots tore a nice hole open...sit right in there plus you have a great backdrop! ive put myself on lots of deer doing that. __________________ The tension on your fingers, the sound of the string dropping on unsuspecting prey, feeding the soul, leaving memories in the air...thats what its all about!
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| Posted: 16 Jul 2008 5:10 PM | ||
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Huh...with all this info coming from everyone I guess hunting from a manmade hole is legal, but I had always thought it was illegal. __________________ My handle is not my aim. I'm a C 4-5 Quadriplegic who uses a converted crossbow.
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| Posted: 16 Jul 2008 5:24 PM | ||
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lol i guess it would work i saw some people on do it i think it was for pronghorn or it might have been mule deer __________________ If you will not stand behind U.S. soldiers, please feel free to stand IN FRONT of them.
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| Posted: 16 Jul 2008 5:24 PM | ||
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Why would you think it was illegal
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| Posted: 16 Jul 2008 5:44 PM | ||
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Why don't you guys finish the Job and just plain old bury yourself!lolol
Seriously, I guess it would work and you will be warmer, just don't fall asleep because a Buck will make a scrape on your face!lol __________________ Want to be FIT?
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| Posted: 16 Jul 2008 5:55 PM Last Edited By: liquidorange | ||
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Quote: i would think digging a pit on state lands or wildlife management areas may constitute damage of some sort. also another thing to think about is someone falling into it. eveyone is lawyer happy these days.my neighbors kid dug a pit years ago and the father fell in it and broke his leg. digging deer pit blinds is a south jersey thing. they use to dig a pit and throw an old truck cap over the top with some brush to camo it up.i would look for a big fallen tree and sit in the root ball.
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| Posted: 16 Jul 2008 6:10 PM | ||
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Many state lands have "holes" all you have to do is look for them. Don't know if there sink holes, old wells or fallen trees which have long since rotted and disappeared, but they leave nice crators.  As deadbolt stated a tree uprooted makes a nice hole and seems to attract deer. __________________ The 4 seasons - Almost Summer, Summer, Still Summer and Hunting Season
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| Posted: 16 Jul 2008 6:29 PM | ||
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| Drop Tine 249, sounds like you may have been a Jar Head also, been there done that. | ||
| Posted: 16 Jul 2008 6:42 PM | ||
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I used to hunt a farm as a kid that is now Turkey Brook park in Mt Olive. On the High side of the field was a drainage ditch that ran accross the entire width of the field, bordered by a dirt road. The ditch was about 4 ft deep for the most part. We used to us it for goose blind and deer blind. Bow was just fine, you could crawl the entire length of it if the wind was right and get closer if deer were not moving. Take a knee, draw bow, pop up and let er rip... Very fun... Very productive.. __________________ "from my cold dead hands"
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| Posted: 16 Jul 2008 8:14 PM | ||
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during 6day we always run into old timers who are in a hole. We actually line up our drives so they can considered one of our standers. I dont remember if anybody every killed a deer out of a hole but they always see deer. __________________ FIRE IT UP!!!!!
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| Posted: 16 Jul 2008 9:04 PM | ||
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Hunted out of holes in MT and it was an awsome tactic
See no reason why it wouldn't work. 
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| Posted: 16 Jul 2008 9:25 PM | ||
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| Posted: 16 Jul 2008 9:58 PM | ||
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can't see much from a hole unless your in big open hardwoods or a field. Deer will be on you before you know it. With a gun it works great in open corfields __________________ Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.
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| Posted: 17 Jul 2008 4:58 AM | ||
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I actually just saw a show where they were antelope hunting and did just that, dug a hole, brushed around it and bow hunted out of it. Seemed to work really well for them. __________________ ----------------------------------------------------
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| Posted: 17 Jul 2008 6:24 AM | ||
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Thanks for all the great feedback. I'm going to try it this year. Only on private land though. I don't want to get in trouble. __________________ EAT SLEEP HUNT Make your dreams a reality. Take a kid hunting. Film your next hunt. www.nloutdoors.com
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| Posted: 17 Jul 2008 7:01 AM | ||
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some guides still use pit blinds in Africa __________________ Quote: Hunting is My Heart & Soul, Without it. I'm just a empty shell. |
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| Posted: 17 Jul 2008 8:39 AM Last Edited By: leedz49 | ||
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| Took a nice doe this way last year at 25 yards. I also missed a nice wide 6 by shooting over his back. It is hard to judge distance down in the hole shooting into an opening. If pressured deer start to look up why not move down, especially when the leaves fall off the trees. Pick a spot with evergreen foliage as a backdrop. | ||
| Posted: 17 Jul 2008 8:48 AM | ||
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ive done it out of a natural drainage ditch... if that counts.. i do 50% of my hunting sitting on the ground in a bush, and i must say it works tremendously. thats why i dont believe in scentlok, if i can sit on the ground with 2 people (i sit there with my girlfriend) and have deer walk right past us with no scentlok at all.. it must not be needed..
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| Posted: 17 Jul 2008 8:50 AM | ||
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Outlaw, that's why you don't shoot 8 pointers
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| Posted: 17 Jul 2008 12:20 PM | ||
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Outlaw, that's why you don't shoot 8 pointers haha thats because the 6 pointers i shoot are gi-nourmous! __________________ Jersey Jays Taxidermy
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| Posted: 17 Jul 2008 12:39 PM | ||
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Up here in Passic and Morris you still have alot of big old blow down holes that I'm guessing were from old American Chestnut tress based on the size. I've sat in them a couple of times. If you think about it, depending on the slope of the land and depth of the hole, the only thing exposed is your head.
I use to hunt a piece in Hunterdon that when I sat on my stool at the top of a slope I counldn't see the groud on the side of the hill but I could see the deer. They would walk right past me, it was the same idea. __________________ Tired of working and having too much money?..... Vote Democratic, support USA's largest urban charitable organization.
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