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Author Topic: Brush blind, ghillie suit, or tree stand?  (Read 1856 times)

Offline Tracker0721

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Brush blind, ghillie suit, or tree stand?
« on: August 17, 2016, 08:07:55 AM »
Found a good deer trail with lots of sign, then bumped a bear who was walking up a trail that intersected the deer trail. Berries all over and TONS of bear sign. Gonna set up at the intersection. I'm using my Selfbow so my longest shot will be about 20 yards. How well do bears see? Enough that I'll need to sit in a brush blind with my ghillie or would just sitting in my ghillie be good? Or is he gonna see me more then likely on the ground and I need to find a tree stand. I've never hunted bear with a bow, let alone a primitive set up like this so I'm kinda unsure about the whole sitting 10 yards from a bear thing.
May my presence go unnoticed, may my shot be true, may the blood trail be short.

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Re: Brush blind, ghillie suit, or tree stand?
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2016, 08:26:15 AM »
I think in your situation I would probably use a tree stand to get your scent up and away from the trail more than anything. All the information I have read on bears or noticed outside is that they do not rely on eyesight very much so if you are in any camo you should be good.

Good luck, I hope you get one! Thats got to be exciting to get it done with a self bow.

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Re: Brush blind, ghillie suit, or tree stand?
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2016, 10:27:36 AM »
I think in your situation I would probably use a tree stand to get your scent up and away from the trail more than anything. All the information I have read on bears or noticed outside is that they do not rely on eyesight very much so if you are in any camo you should be good.

Good luck, I hope you get one! Thats got to be exciting to get it done with a self bow.

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Re: Brush blind, ghillie suit, or tree stand?
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2016, 10:30:05 AM »
Tree stand!
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