Ground stalk vs tree stand

[BOWHUNTER45]

This is a good subject for sure ...I can remember moving out here from pennsylvania and wondering how I was going to adapt to the new hunting areas I was now living in ... I spent countless hours in tree stands when I first came out here waiting for blacktail to walk under my tree stand ..well needless to say it did not happen to often ..Finding out the hard way a blacktail is not predictable as the whitetail....plus the other problem growing up was I could never ever sit still and being bowhunters in my family my dad would always tell me ..you are not going to kill these whitetail by walking around the woods sit your butt still .. Well sorry pop I have proved ya wrong...Got my 1st whitetail at 9 yrs old and sneaking around behind our house ...we was in awe when I ran and got him....been a bowhuntin nut since ...so anyway I started using my stalkin ablilities here in washington and have done much better... always wondering whats over that next ridge has alway produced success for me ....But then I drew a special bull permit in 08 and after all the years of putting up my treestand and hanging it in my garage I would finally take it down from retirement....Must of been ment to be because I killed the biggest bull I may ever see again from that tree stand which came over 3000 miles to kill a huge I mean huge elk ...hahaha

Kool pic!  and what a shot on that bull to drop him in his tracks right underneath your stand.. hahaha
                                                         

  hahaha well we layed them on the ground and my buddy took the shot lying down looking up ....

[Camp David]

You have several months to start perfecting your "stalking". Start scouting and see if you can get with in bow range of a deer before the season. You will learn the terrain and also understand if you have what it takes to stalk a deer. Elk are a different animal. For me, stalking them to bow range is a easier. They rely more on their nose. You can fool their eyes and their ears, but not their nose. Some days you can walk right up to them....almost never seen that happen with deer.

[KNOXY]

Both, If you set your trails cams up and have real nice animals coming in daily to a location set up the tree stand...If your in the hills spot and stalk have a blast, Glass ridges, do everything that is what make hunting so much fun!

[huntnnw]

I have used treestands for elk at wallows on occasions..bear a few times and mostly in a tree for whiteys... unless I am hunting open terrain then I make ground blinds or just stalk them. Play the wind!