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I'm sold on ground blinds
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12/31/14 09:56 PM
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After hunting from a ground blind most of this season, I don't know why I didn't try one long ago. I bought one before last season and decided to use it this season to overlook a food plot that I have always hunted from a tripod. With the area around the food plot now overgrown so high that it would have required placing a tripod too close, I opted to put up the ground blind back in the brush but still close enough that I could still see the entire plot. While the deer still appeared somewhat wary of it, I ended up seeing a lot more deer than during those earlier years when hunting from a tripod. It really seemed to blend in to the surroundings much better than myself sitting in an open tripod. Dog House Deer Blind
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Re: I'm sold on ground blinds
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12/31/14 10:02 PM
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They truly work. I have hunted out of them for years. This year I built an elevated platform and tied down the ground blind to the top. It was awesome! Great views and much cheapier than purchasing or building a box blind.
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Re: I'm sold on ground blinds
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12/31/14 10:19 PM
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Bugs eat me alive. Really, for whatever reason, they will fly past everyone else and chew on me. I've found that the Thermocell / ground blind combination will allow me to hunt almost anywhere without fear or undue suffering. I'm sold on them too.
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Re: I'm sold on ground blinds
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12/31/14 10:28 PM
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Bugs eat me alive. Really, for whatever reason, they will fly past everyone else and chew on me. I've found that the Thermocell / ground blind combination will allow me to hunt almost anywhere without fear or undue suffering. I'm sold on them too. Will the thermocell repel wasps? My ground blind was covered in them until 2nd week of dec.
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Re: I'm sold on ground blinds
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12/31/14 10:44 PM
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Ground blinds are usually my go to except when I'm bow hunting. I've even bow hunted out of them a couple times.
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Re: I'm sold on ground blinds
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12/31/14 11:10 PM
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Bugs eat me alive. Really, for whatever reason, they will fly past everyone else and chew on me. I've found that the Thermocell / ground blind combination will allow me to hunt almost anywhere without fear or undue suffering. I'm sold on them too. Will the thermocell repel wasps? My ground blind was covered in them until 2nd week of dec. I used my ThermaCell just once in my ground blind this season and would swear it left some residue on the inside surface of my blind that continued to work for days if not weeks afterward.
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Re: I'm sold on ground blinds
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12/31/14 11:25 PM
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One thing I do with ground blinds is put cedar branches all around them. Does two things: 1) conceals the blind and breaks up the "square" appearance 2) covers scent to a degree...especially when you have two people in there. Don't get me wrong, you still have the hunt the wind, but cedar is very effective on those light to no wind days.
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Re: I'm sold on ground blinds
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12/31/14 11:28 PM
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Re: I'm sold on ground blinds
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12/31/14 11:53 PM
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I've always preferred ground blinds over most I do love my towers but I hate tripods and tree stands unless I'm bow hunting I like to be on the ground like God intended man to be. Plus I can take my 5 & 3 year old daughters with me in a ground blind I'm not comfortable with them climbing into an elevated blind yet.
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Re: I'm sold on ground blinds
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01/01/15 12:54 AM
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We have several of each, but I honestly prefer the tripod
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Re: I'm sold on ground blinds
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01/01/15 02:33 PM
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I will use one if I have to, but it honestly drives me nuts not to be able to see but a small slice of what's going on around me. Plus I believe treestands are much more stealthy/unobtrusive.
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Re: I'm sold on ground blinds
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01/01/15 02:35 PM
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I will use one if I have to, but it honestly drives me nuts not to be able to see but a small slice of what's going on around me. Plus I believe treestands are much more stealthy/unobtrusive. agree, and drawing a bow on ground level with game within 20-25 yards can be very tough, hope for some good hard wind.
If I send my neighbors a text and ask them to give me feedback on my lawn and plant rye into a giant dong pattern, I'm probably going to get some less than positive feedback. Same goes here.
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Re: I'm sold on ground blinds
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01/01/15 02:58 PM
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I will use one if I have to, but it honestly drives me nuts not to be able to see but a small slice of what's going on around me. Plus I believe treestands are much more stealthy/unobtrusive. No argument there. Still, most ground blinds have windows on all sides that can be opened for watching all around you. I must admit that I was a liitle wary this season of what may have found crawled up in my ground blind when opening it, especially on a dark morning. And then, thinking that having a 300 pound boar standing a few feet away and not knowing it can work on the nerves as well. That is, when you know all that separates you is thin cloth.
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Re: I'm sold on ground blinds
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01/01/15 03:07 PM
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I only use them occassionally bowhunting. To have any hope of killing a deer from a ground blind in east TX, only one window can be open so they will not catch you when you draw. That means you can't see an animal until they are right on top of you. If they are on the move at all you can forget it. They are a huge handicap.
I am thinking about using them a little more during rifle season in a couple of spots where I don't have blinds. If I do, I am going to put them out well before the season so as to let the deer get used to them.
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Re: I'm sold on ground blinds
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01/01/15 04:00 PM
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I hunted out of one most of this year and I liked it. I always take the "fresh earth" scent spray and spray it down real good before I hunt out of it and I hang a couple of the fresh earth wafers inside it while hunting.
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Re: I'm sold on ground blinds
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01/01/15 04:05 PM
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Sound drives me nutz as much as sight.....I have a hard time hearing what is around me inside the ground blind. Lots of draw backs, but many upsides...as stated above, I hunt out of one with my daughter a lot. I have taken several does from them, but never a buck.
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Re: I'm sold on ground blinds
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01/01/15 04:15 PM
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Sound drives me nutz as much as sight.....I have a hard time hearing what is around me inside the ground blind. Lots of draw backs, but many upsides...as stated above, I hunt out of one with my daughter a lot. I have taken several does from them, but never a buck. I had an 8 sneak up on me, never heard it.... came up from a blind spot, when I peaked out of the window to check things out, he was about 20 feet away from me. Startled both of us and off he went!
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Re: I'm sold on ground blinds
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01/01/15 04:52 PM
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I love both my ground blinds and I also have a spot or 2 I sit on the ground elevation has it advantages though and in some cases its even a must
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Re: I'm sold on ground blinds
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01/01/15 04:56 PM
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Those ameristep ones are garbage, in my opinion. Last about a year and start falling apart.
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Re: I'm sold on ground blinds
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01/01/15 05:01 PM
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Must be rifle hunting, you might have a different opinion if bow hunting, it could get very tough.
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Re: I'm sold on ground blinds
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01/01/15 05:26 PM
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I have a Midwest Haybale blind and love it. I have set it up in a location where the deer can only come from in front of me. I only use one window and it has worked great for me so far. I always have corn out in front of me and use a road feeder to let the deer know it is there. I bow hunted and use my x-bow out of mine.
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Re: I'm sold on ground blinds
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01/01/15 05:29 PM
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I have a Midwest Haybale blind and love it. I have set it up in a location where the deer can only come from in front of me. I only use one window and it has worked great for me so far. I always have corn out in front of me and use a road feeder to let the deer know it is there. I bow hunted and use my x-bow out of mine. What do the cows do if anything? I think one of them would work better than a popup if there is round bales in the area.
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Re: I'm sold on ground blinds
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01/01/15 05:37 PM
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I have a Midwest Haybale blind and love it. I have set it up in a location where the deer can only come from in front of me. I only use one window and it has worked great for me so far. I always have corn out in front of me and use a road feeder to let the deer know it is there. I bow hunted and use my x-bow out of mine. What do the cows do if anything? I think one of them would work better than a popup if there is round bales in the area. I do not have cattle right now. They would destroy it if they could get to it I would think. You would have to keep it in an pasture that had not cattle or the cattle could be fenced off of it. I have never had any round bales on this place since I have had but sure my neighbor to the north has fed them so cattle know what they are. They adapt very quickly to mine. I put it out and had deer eating corn within 25 yards of it in 2-3 days. My setup was good with S, SE, NE and N winds. I never got winded by any deer and did have a deer two or three times detect movement or hear the chair squeak. They did not bolt, just stared me down and none of them run off with most of them staying till the corn was gone.
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Re: I'm sold on ground blinds
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01/01/15 05:48 PM
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They would destroy it if they could get to it I would think. Kinda what I figured.
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Re: I'm sold on ground blinds
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01/01/15 05:51 PM
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They would destroy it if they could get to it I would think. Kinda what I figured. When I get cattle I will put it in a pasture with no cattle in it during the hunting season or put up a temporary fence around it.
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