Bow hunting set up question(s)

I am mainly set up for rifle with the feeders about 90-100 yards on average from the blinds. I would like to add a bow hunting option in the mix and would like some help with that. I have pop up blinds but think I want more elevation. Maybe an open top type platform? IDK...any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Elevator brackets are your friend.
http://shadowhunterllc.com/index.php/series-elevators.html

Thanks! I will look this over. This the set up that you use?

Pop ups work well. I have seen set ups where they are mounted on a wooden platform to provide the elevation.

If I can find a tree that even looks like it will hold me, I prefer to be in it.

I am not a fan of open top enclosures. Shadows are your friend when bow hunting. We had a few with open tops and would get picked off more than the others.

Nope. I've never been in a situation to have that set up. However I do have a box on a platform built from the brackets (in Missouri) and it works great. I'm also contemplating building one for a Krivoman shell style blind. I have seen pics of other members here and on TBH who put pop ups on platforms.

I really enjoy pop ups. It's a task to find a straight mesquite tree around here...

There are some blinds with better tree opportunities than others. I need to eyeball it a little bit more.

Depending if there is a tree close by the feeder. I like to push a small tripod into a tree, if the tree can't support a stand, just to kill my silhouette. If not a popup is your best option.

Do you think some type of background for an open top platform to help hide silhouette? Maybe even a small roof for the warm October bow season afternoons?

Get up in the nosebleed section and youll have much more luck

Any kind of back ground will help to help mask your movements if you don't have a tree to back into, top? , sides? wood? burlap? Just bear in mind the more square or block it looks like the more they will try to figure out what it is. My take a while for them to warm up to it.

I am going to use this platform and blind frame I've made to make a bow blind for a friend who's place has mostly mesquite and small hackberry trees for cover. We will cover it with ground/weed cloth and camo netting on the outside. A shooting hole will be cut in each side.

Thanks gents. I have a better idea now and will be looking the potential setups over this weekend while I'm guiding hog hunters.

Passthru, I like that set up, where did you get the base?

An old lease. The pop up on it was shredded and the cost for a new one was too much so it was passed on to me to do with as I liked. It needs a few minor repairs but nothing difficult.

Dang, if you have a brand on it let me know, I like the trap door ordeal, and it looks pretty roomy

http://www.cabelas.com/product/Big-Game-...1729&rid=20
Here you go.

Passthru is on the ball today!

Thanks for the lead, I found this http://www.biggametreestands.com/product/the-booster/ I think I have the materials to build a box!

That should work. I saw one at TSC one time that was about $500+ for the platform and blind.

Good idea passthru! I may try something like that too.