Sit on the ground or on a stool

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magnumdennis

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How many of you sit right on the ground and how many sit on a folding stool? I use a stool, but sometimes I feel I am sitting too high against the cover. Dennis.
 
I used a cushion on the ground until I walked away and forgot it yesterday. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif Sometimes I use a stool if there is ample cover like a yucca, juniper or whatever to breakup my outline. Usually by later in the day I have trouble getting up from the ground so I seek out cover where I can use the stool. As long as you have cover behind you to break up your outline and are very still the stool works great.
 
For most of my hunting I prefer to be on the ground, unless I'm using the ATV as a shooting bench. On the ground you are steadier for shooting, lower sillowet in the air and in the cold seasons I use a "hot seat" to set on to keep warm. (A hot set is a bag filled with Styrofoam beads or peanut's to keep my asss of of the cold ground.
 
I have a little folding seat....my wife got it for me. In 35 years of hunting I never had it so good. It is about 6-8 inches high on one side, and about 3-4 on the other. That allows you to put it next to a tree (to lean back on) and gives you the proper slope to be very comfortable. It is very light as it is tubular aluminum and webbing, like a lawn chair. It has a strap to sling over your shoulder if need be. This seat keeps you low to the ground, away from the wet and cold of the ground, and is very comfortable....also at this height, it still works well with most shooting sticks/tall bipods etc.......
 
The chair reminds me of my dog. When people ask if he bits or is viscus. I tell them "NO". I have never told him he is a "D--O--B--E--R--M--A--N"
Go to varmint Al's page www.varmintal.net Then Make-a-bi-fur-pod www.varmintal.net/abifu.htm
At the bottom of this page he talks about the aluminum lawn chair he uses. and the model number. One day I will take an old lawn chair, I I no longer use, and shoring the legs about half way.
 
I've gone from little pieces of carpet to cushions, to old style stadium seats, and finally to the closed cell foam stadium seat-- the one's that u can cinch up tight on the sides-- they provide excellent support (especially for the back, after 15 or so uneventful stands this can help your attitude considerably), and many can be opened to "beef up" the cushion with more foam sheets, if desired (highly suggested). Wal-Mart has some on clearance here in So. Colo. that're already camo'd called the Hunter's Heated Seat. They also double as a slick little shooting mat also if u're so inclined. Another nice thing about them is that they fit perfectly into a burlap bag that provides for good prairie-type camo, sort of. Just slide it in, cut holes for the handles, etc., sew the top up, and u're done. I tried this system due to a suggestion from a friend, and i'd have to say it's the single best addition i've made to my calling gear, maybe second only to switching to 17 cal. fur guns.
 
I sit right on the ground with my knees up, I lean back into a bush and I rest my forearms on my knees to steady my rifle. I can hold pretty steady in this position and if I need them, my shooting sticks are right next to me.

t/c223encore.
 
I sit right on the ground with my knees up, I lean back into a bush and I rest my forearms on my knees to steady my rifle. I can hold pretty steady in this position and if I need them, my shooting sticks are right next to me.

t/c223encore.
 
Weasel,
Blak Coyote taught me to tie the cusion to my belt so I don't forget it. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Originally posted by tcusparky:
[qb]Weasel,
Blak Coyote taught me to tie the cusion to my belt so I don't forget it. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif [/qb]
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That's exactly what I'll do if I get another one. I only used the one I lost on two hunts.
 
One the problems with calling at different times of the year is being able to see your quarry above the ground cover and grass.....especially for those of us that are more vertically challenged! I take a lightweight fold-up stool with me on most stands. I camo painted the legs. It allows me to see what is coming in to my call much better and lets me use my knee as a rifle rest. Here is the stool in action in New Mexico......

Good Hunting,

Bob
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i use to use fold up stools but found them to let out a sqeek or a grown at the wrong time when your moving to make the shot,or sink in the soil down to your ass, here in the east it gets real wet and stays that way, so now i use a belt on tree seat and a blow up fanny cusion that staps around your waist, both work great for me, :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
 
I use a butt, pad, with a strap, and clip,that goes on the back loop, of the pants, but to me its more important to use knee pads,to stand up, quickly, for a shot, at close range, the pain is great, when a thorn or rock, goes in your knee.
 
I have never used it, but I have a turkey vest, It has a seat and back built in it and is camo. I guess I should try it, but I am usually in to big of a hurry to get it out. Next time I go out I will use it. I have always intended to use it because it has allot of pockets and room for even a decoy.
 
In Az. yote hunting I used a turkey hunting vest(with built in seat)for years.The front pockets hold all the equipment you need and your caller can be packed around in the back pocket.Here in IA I use a small three leged stool for snow and wet times.I like the stool best,because it gets me up higher to see over any weeds or brush.I hate it when they are in your face before you get a sight on them.
Kyotikid
 
I went to Wal-Mart and bought a closed cell foam sleeping pad, cut out a chunk about 20" x 20". It rolls up easily and I can strap it to the bottom of my day pack *like a miniture sleeping pad on military packs* it won't absorb moisture, provides some padding, is cheap (one mat makes about 2 or 3 sitting pads), if you forget it so what, if you rip it, oh well, and the bonus, it's light, takes up little space, and darn if I just don't find alll kinds of uses for it.
 
When I first started hunting coyotes I would sit on the ground. Lots of times I just couldn't see well enough to suit myself though. If I was in the edge of a tree line there is always tall dried grass in the way. My daughters got me a nice folding camo stool for X-mas one year so I used it for a while. It was a pain to carry around, even though it has a nylon strap that can be put over a shoulder. Seemed it was alway banging on my rifle slung on my other shoulder. I'm a turkey hunter and have used my turkey vest with its padded seat. Again I'm too low in cover. I found a camo pad at Wallyworld this fall that had an adjustable strap that goes around your waist. I bought it to use on my treestand deer hunting. I've been using this some and it is good, but again I like the height of my stool. I've found the easiest thing to do around these parts is simply find a tree situated in a fencerow or other treeline and lean against that tree while standing. I just keep my off side in contact with the tree so my human form is not noticeable to incoming animals. Just looks like part of the tree. I called a red fox in the daylight one day and it walked within two feet of me as I stood like this. I had to let it pass by me before I could raise my rifle to shoot. It was so close I could hear it's little fox feet trotting on the crusted snow. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif I've had numerous coyotes come into less than 20 yards and none of them have seen me until it's too late for them. :eek: The only drawback I've found to this is I have to concentrate on not moving while I use my mouth calls. With a E-caller it isn't such a problem. One would think it's a problem taking off hand shots, but since most every coyote I've called comes in to within 50 yards or so before I shoot it's not an issue.

Hunt safe y'all..Coyote 6974
 
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