Noob questions welcome?
Hello all. Im a halfway decent competitive archer and looking to try hunting again. Ive tried a couple times and never been successful. I have a lot of experience climbing and rappelling so when I heard of this saddle hunting thing I was intrigued since I am very comfortable and competent on rope.
My location is out on the west coast so my question I guess is that, saddle and tree stand hunting are more for Midwest style hunting locations right, often where there have been preferred crops to draw the animal or feeders etc? It seems out west people do spot and stalk and so saddles have little merit there for a public land hunter?
If this is too dumb a question you can remove my post, its just that all the info I find online is more about how to set up the saddle rigs, relative merits compared to tree stands etc. Not so much, here are the scenarios it works for. I would be hiking in somewhere on public land targeting non-habituated big mule deer. Was able to get within a couple hundred yards of some but couldn't even determine if there were males in the group as they booked it once they noticed us.
Thanks in advance to anyone who takes the time to give a novice some feedback.