People look down on such fun activities round these parts for some reason

So how did you build them ? Like what did they look like and how did you get them up the tree ?

Yep see this is the they of stuff i find interesting! About how quickly could you get up a tree ?

At one time old tv antenna's were laying around everywhere and then the fad hit to use them for ladders and you couldn't find one that wasn't attached to tree with a seat on top.

I liked that better than a bunch of boards nailed with spikes up the side of a $200 red oak. Recently I had to move some guys and they had their store bought stands that had been there 6 or 7 years and the stand itself was grown into the tree. They had to cut a "V" into the tree with a chainsaw to get their stand out.

Hunted from the ground for years, still do as much as I'm in a tree.

When I started hunting, I had an uncle that lived along the foot of the mountain, and he taught me how to kill Deer.
Get on the side of the mountain and jump shoot them, similar to rabbit hunting.

Some call it "still hunting" , but we didn't go real slow.

Quit talking about it and just go hunt Wolfie, u might actually enjoy it

yeah lemme go tell cap to pull the boat over and I'll hop out on the shore and go off

Nah I go out alot , just dont post much of it. Not like I kill anything more then some musky pigs

But also your missing the point of my post.

I scored a bunch of utility pole step spikes that really worked great, but, I learned my lesson by example.
In the early 70's, a guy fell out of a stand and safety rope was tied on wrong, near cut him in half. somebody found him a few days later, hanging there. Only hunt from ground stands now. A lot more comfy and warmer too.

Jump hunting is how I learned to hunt blacktails in the coastal brush. But I did go slow, and quiet. If they heard you coming from a ways away they would just slip off, but if you got close enough before they knew you were there, they would panic and bust out of there. Plus sometimes you would get lucky and slip in close enough to spot them before they spotted you. Works well for whitetails also, but you can move a lot faster (of course the brush isn't as thick either). I've done it for mountain muleys in the timber also. But in the open country I do more glassing any more.

Mobile hunting to me means road hunting. Was a pretty effective way of filling the freezer, but you didn't get much chances at bigger bucks except maybe a couple days when they were really stupid in the rut.

I too liked getting close.

It was shotgun only back in the day. So no 100 yd shots.

I cut a shooting lane in the thick brush of a swamp along a corn field. The deer would travel in the swamp brush during the day.
I sat against a blow down or tree trunk. Would climb in a old sleeping bag up to my armpits. Sit on a boat cushion.
My Mom made me a muff to put my hands in. I could sit all day in 20 degree weather.
The shot were always close, less than 10-15 yds. You would hear them coming, just make them out coming thru the thick brush. Put the gun up lined up down the shooting lane and wait for the deer to step into the lane.
The deer could never see you till they stepped into the lane.

Lots better than a tree stand. Warmer on the ground out of the wind.

The other guys in the tree stands would see lots more deer but very low percentage of shots at deer seen. If I saw one it was close enough to shoot.

There is something about people that they like to see for miles. I see deer stands all the time on the edge of a swamp looking over ag fields.
They'd be better served putting the stands where the deer spend there daytime hours.