I could never stand just sitting in a blind. I have to be out there on foot. This year my partner and I spotted 9 elk from about 1.5 miles away and we watched them bed down in a shallow draw. We drove about 1/2 mile on a road to get the wind right and then hiked about 1.25 miles to get to them. We knew exactly where they were and walked right into them. We both got our cows.