ORIGINAL: waiting_for_a_gift
In open hardwoods you can make like a "cabin". Just get long sticks about the diameter of your arm, select a blind location with at least three trees, and start laying them in there. It takes some time, but you've really got something when you're done. You've got concealment, shelter, and shooting rest. I build my own seat too, get an old rotten piece of log, thicker than your leg, and pile up a few sections, mash them down with your foot until they're the right height and comfortable. Then if you use this blind in subsequent years, you can just add to it.
That's what I do also, except I try to use good logs and stack them up like a log cabin and use good logs for a seat and then take a piece of old carpet with me to sit on so my butt doesn't get cold.
Them pre fab blinds might look good on paper, but out in the woods they stick out like a sore thumb.
You have to remember that a deer knows every tree in the woods. He knows when something is there that wasn't there yesterday. When something looks out of place, he doesn't go there for a while. Once he gets used to seeing it, he won't pay any attention to it anymore unless he see's some hunter moving around inside of it.
The last ground blind I built, my dad shot 3 bucks in it in the last 4 years.
I worked for 2 days to build it and only sat in it 1/2 of one day.
They people I took it off of worked 1/2 a day to build it before I got there. In the woods,on public land,it is first come- first served!