GWSmith Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 On a stack of hay bales this afternoon... (cellphone pic) They were standing closer to the stack maybe 20yds away from it. Anyone have a stand site on top of bales before??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
layin on the smackdown Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 no i havent, but i thought really hard about setting up on a hay shed once. I backed out though because i felt i wouldn't be concealed enough at 7 ft on a large flat surface. I bet you could get away with it no problem there. just throw some brush up there, enough to break you up a bit, and i bet you drill one. Let us know what you decide to do, and good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrow32 Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 No I havn't Gary. But I don't see why it wouldn't work well for you. Do whatever it takes. Just hope you don't fall old guy:D:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backwoods07 Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 I'm pretty sure that's considered hunting over bait in Illinois. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybear Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 Not sure I would wanna be sitting on them... rather behind them if you know what direction they'll be coming in from. They act like geese till the shootin' starts,.... then they act like geese again and get the flock outta there. Never tried it with the bow, but several times I wish I would have instead of the slug gun. Almost seems they are drawn to landmarks like that in open terrain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrow32 Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 I'm pretty sure that's considered hunting over bait in Illinois. Shouldn't be. That'd be just like sitting on a pile of hay on the ground thats been cut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobwhite Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 I had one of the rolled hay bales at the corner of the woods with apple trees behind me and cut corn in front of me. I would stand behind it when I first started to use it the roll was chest high, Now it waist high. The first night i was there I shot a buck that night 45 min. into my hunt. Also missed some deer there to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAarcher Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 Or you could cut some of that brush out of the field edge and toss a pop up blind in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VermontHunter Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 Too bad you coundn't hollow that pile out and hunt from within' it .. Shockey has several blinds setup that way he hunts from ... Not a bad pic for a cell phone pic .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrow32 Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 Too bad you coundn't hollow that pile out and hunt from within' it .. Shockey has several blinds setup that way he hunts from ... Not a bad pic for a cell phone pic .. But don't he start those blinds from some kind of wire fencing? Somebody does heck maybe its someone from the forums I'm not sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 They were standing closer to the stack maybe 20yds away from it. Anyone have a stand site on top of bales before??? I've sat in between them before. Never had any luck though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWSmith Posted September 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 But don't he start those blinds from some kind of wire fencing? Somebody does heck maybe its someone from the forums I'm not sure. Your thinking of the ground blinds that Buckee makes with the wire frame then weaved with local grasses from the hedgerow he's hunting. I remember a ground blind that Alex Rutledge made with 4 round bales. He had a decoy set out and called in a nice buck to within bow range and scored! He did place them in that spot during the summer though;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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