#2010106 - 07/28/10 05:19 PM
Re: Comfort vs Success........??
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Rowdy
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I guess my question is this.......do you or will you sacrifice comfort for success....or.....do you most always take the road of greater comfort. I realize that many people have success hunting from heated box blinds, out of the weather. But, if you knew that you might have MORE success if you abandoned the box blind....would you? Will you stay in the box blind where the hunt is more ENJOYABLE and hope for the best or will you abandon those comforts and "get after" the deer...no matter what the conditions?
Believe me BH, when you've been around as long as I have, and spent as much time as I have chase'n deer, there will come a time when a warm, comfortable, enclosed blind is gonna feel mighty good on some of them "nasty" days....besides, who's to say I would go home empty handed?....and, what is "success" to the individual?....you're not alone here ya know!!!
Yeah...there was a time that I kinda felt like you do, but times change, as do our motives for going....hunting is for the "young" and "old" as well, not just the crazy..(you said it, not me)...lol
If I didn't think my chances were at least "fair",...I'd just stay in bed to begin with.
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#2010110 - 07/28/10 05:22 PM
Re: Comfort vs Success........??
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Football Hunter
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I built one,no,its not moveable,but my 3 climbers and 12 to 15 ladders/loc ons are.I built it for a late season,bad weather,"Hey,Im here,its bad,but I can get in my shooting house",type of deal.Hunted in it once last year during juvy with my son when the wind kept shifting on us.
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#2010237 - 07/28/10 07:39 PM
Re: Comfort vs Success........??
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Boone 58
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I choose hunting for getting the kind of buck i want to kill which means mostly going to areas undisturbed by human regularity.....but then you read about some guy somewhere who killed a giant buck in a shooting house and wonder who is really fooling who......lmbo!
I like them for impossible weather only.........
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#2010259 - 07/28/10 08:01 PM
Re: Comfort vs Success........??
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fourwheeler431
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Simple question define "Success"
I consider it a successful hunt if I see a deer. I don't have to bring one home to enjoy it myself.
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#2010260 - 07/28/10 08:02 PM
Re: Comfort vs Success........??
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birddog
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I've hunted in some pretty uncomfortable setups and it pay off. I do what i have to hang in what i think is the best spot but 90% i can find a good spot i can be comfortable in my summit.
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#2010437 - 07/28/10 10:10 PM
Re: Comfort vs Success........??
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MRUTVOL
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Maybe it's me, but sometimes I think that some don't read or understand the questions before answering...lol.
would you rather be comfortable, enjoy the hunt and go home empty handed OR would you take the risk of being out in the elements and increase your odds of success...?
understand?
 Did you ever seriously think that maybe it IS just you with some of these pre conceived scenarios  ....Whats not to understand about your question??....sure I understand ( lol ) .... ....WHY does being comfortable have any thing to do with going home empty handed?..  ...and why does being in the elements neccesarily increase your odds of success... maybe I just need to buy your book!... or not..........
Edited by MRUTVOL (07/28/10 10:11 PM)
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#2010449 - 07/28/10 10:20 PM
Re: Comfort vs Success........??
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Poser
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Howdy. Personally, I can't stand to sit in ground blinds much less the thought of sitting in a shooting house. It just doesn't feel like I'm outside. I'm much more comfortable facing the elements (enjoyable and adverse), hanging in my Tree Saddle.
It seems that the cost and burden of erecting shooting houses limits them to food plots and wide open spaces. If you are going to go to the expense and semi permanence of a shooting house, then it would follow that one would set it up where you could maximize its potential for range. Sitting over food plots and fields edges (though tiresomely popular on TV) in the Southeast just doesn't suit my hunting philosophy in any way since, for pressured deer, the best action is back in the thickness.
Additionally, for the costs of a manufactured shooting house ($300-$1500), one could purchase at least a climber with infinite setup possibilities or numerous other portable set ups. I prefer screw in steps and can buy many of them for the cost of one shooting house. Of course, if you are purchasing a shooting house, economics may not be your primary concern.
As for facing the elements, I prefer it that way. Mather Nature can dish out her nastiest and I will prevail, though sometimes only after great suffering. Remember, it doesn't have to be fun in order to be fun.
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#2010470 - 07/28/10 10:46 PM
Re: Comfort vs Success........??
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RKenney
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I don't have kids, but if I did, and they were interested in deer
hunting, they would be "in the woods". Not in a "shooting house".
I know kids and things have changed now days, but my Daddy took
me into the woods and showed me things about deer. I never
complained, because I was fascinated with deer and the world
they lived in.
I can remember freaking out over seeing a rub or a scrape, after
my Dad told me what made them....and why.
Thinking back, I don't think would be doodeling and texting on
a cell phone............even if they existed back then...while
there was a chance I might even see a deer.
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#2010555 - 07/29/10 06:09 AM
Re: Comfort vs Success........??
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Bottom Hunter
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Box blind has produced no kills in two years. Do you continue to hunt out of it regardless of the lack of success (making a kill) OR do you brave the elements and hunt somewhere else....? pretty simple question......lol.
Let's say that trail cams show a nice buck working an area that you can not see from your box blind. Do you go to the buck or sit in the box blind and hope that he comes to you....?
Rowdy...I am going in to my 36th year deer hunting. I have hunted from box blinds on occasion, but never simply for the comfort of it. To this day, I still hunt from hang-on stands and at 53 years of age, I find it simply a part of the experience.....Just me here, but I would rather sit for days on end on the side of a tree with confidence than sit for an hour in a box blind that I have no confidence in....
fourwheeler431......for this question, SUCCESS is killing a deer.
tndrbstr.... I'll just say that all I have ever done on here is try to spark conversation and get people posting.....if there is a crime or you and others think that I consider myself a "know it all" then so be it.....
done.....
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