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Nor is it necessary if you build a traditional sage blind. They look more natural, allow air flow so you're very comfortable relaxing in the shade, and the sage helps cover your scent.

The first two photos above (previous post) were at the same location. Those two bucks came in opening morning. I let them walk, and didn't see another pronghorn there for five days - dawn to dusk. The last photo was at this blind. We had two new pronghorn hunters with us. I put the first one in this blind hoping that guy would come in for him, (I had seen him in the area while scouting) and told him NOT to shoot the first goat in, unless it was big. He killed the first one in opening morning - sub P&Y. On day three, I put the other guy in the same blind with the same instructions - same result. I let it rest two full days, and headed there myself. He was the first one to come in for me, barely after sunrise.

Spot-n-stalk or get a decoy and hunt'm, trust me your adrenaline level will be off the charts!

I guess I don't get that. 90% of hunting is pretty much doing nothing. If you don't have the patience, you really handicap yourself. Spot & stalk? - Most of the time, you sit there for hours picking apart the landscape - over and over and over... what fun! Then, most of the rest of the time is just hiking. Still hunting? - If you're doing it right, it's just like sitting in a blind, only you take a few steps now and then. A tree stand? - just like a blind, only you HAVE to sit very still. Just because you're not getting sweaty and physically doing something, doesn't mean you're not actively hunting. If there is one thing they all share, it's patience - waiting, and waiting, and waiting some more for the opportunity to act. I don't know how you can be a hunter, especially a bow hunter, without it.

Spot and stalk for me - mainly because that's what I go west for! I spend enough time sitting in a stand around here waiting for something. I like to try and make it happen myself - can't beat the adrenaline rush, either!

In the end, you can "hunt" and most likely experience lower success rates, or you can employ many generally accepted archery techniques and up your success. The good thing is you can try both in the same hunt if needed.

Pronghorn are most unique, you can hunt them all day as they're usually visible and the terrain often lends itself to approach(sometimes at literal ground level). I've had days with 6-8 stalks, and days with one or two, but never a day or even a half day without seeing them and being in pursuit.

rjlefty3. We start scouting as soon as we draw the tags. Even though it's risky, and we've had water holes dry up on us before the season, we rough in the blinds about a month before the season starts. We finish them a week or two before opening day. We also bring a portable, in case we chose poorly. And that's another point. The vast majority of our hunting starts well before the season starts, with many scouting trips. We don't just show up and try to figure out where to set up a blind. The scouting, the work building blinds (and it's a LOT of work), the camping, and the watching in anticipation of what might come in, is what is fun. That's what makes DIY more fun than guided. I guess if ALL you're there for is to kill something, maybe it would be boring. The shot and kill is kinda anti-climatic. The result of all the fun leading up to it, and the END of the fun, except for the eating part. ;-)

Good luck if you get to go Tdvorak...I think you'll enjoy the terrain, the sights & sounds, and the table fair!

Edit: Bottom left two on lower pic weren't killed by me.

I’m a semi nubie to antelope, took first and only one last year in CO on a ranch using a Montana decoy. Hunted water 2 days only saw one 75 yards, this blind was set up near some green grass.

I’ve bowhunt whitetails stalking when the terrain is favorable but some of the vids I see for lope would freak me out with ZERO cover??? The place in CO had lots of short scrub bushes of some kind so it might would worked trying to slip in on them. It was intertaining to watch him as he “checked out” the decoy.

Has anybody had any success with using a cow decoy?

By far the best tactic is to find the only water for miles and put on a good blind.

If you think about it, taking a book or an iPhone with extra batteries just to make it through the dayshould tell us something.

It is the most deadly method, but it comes at a price.

You’re in a blind, fully enclosed and for all intents and purposes 100 percent concealed. I suppose those shooting houses are the same but I wouldn’t call that a tree stand persay.

There is a big difference between waiting on a crittter on the termination of a stalk, or that dip in the landscape vs sitting in a blind, book in hand, flipping pages. I’m pretty sure on the termination of a stalk on that bedded buck, or sheep, in order to pass time you wouldn’t put your headphones in, or read chapter 2 of “the old man and the sea”

Again, im not saying it’s wrong but call it what it is. Effective, but boring as hell.

I thought I gave an opinion?

This is a message board and I stated my opinion you can be the Judge of the facts.

If i said Blonde chicks are better than Brunettes, like above, that’s an opinion but I guess some would take offense to that as well.

You call it boring, I call it patience. Something every good hunter either has or develops. Most of spot and stalk is the spotting part. Talk about boring. At least from a blind I can do photography. ;-)