I never thought I would go to the ground side of deer hunting until last year. I had a friend who keeps harvesting deer in comfort, on the ground, with a heater.

He made these simple points.

1) Heater sends your scent that barley escapes blind quickly upward (hot air on cold days), way above deers nose. Deer can be just a few feet from a ground blind with heater running and not smell or feel threatened by its hum.

2) Movement is concealed. You can bop around (no major noise) and eat, text, dial your scope, stretch, without detection.

3) You can go in supper quit next to a bedding area.


Well, I finally listened and got out of my stands and went to the ground. I had more fun last year harvesting deer than ever before.

My wife and son had more fun to. If your freezing, it ain't no fun.

One thing I discovered in the last 4 years is that deer are constantly looking up. I was getting busted repeatedly at heights of 25-28 feet.

I would watch deer going through the forest looking in the trees. It was then I discovered that deer are becoming aware that their enemy is from above as well.

Thats why I am excited about blind hunting. This year is the first year that I will be in a blind on opening day.

Double bull by Primos is a great blind but there are some others that have come out that would fare good also and set up well.

One secret I leaned from those who use them close to bedding. Is that you can put them there two weeks before you want to hunt without brushing them in. Just put out some molasses or corn or peanut butter within 20 yards.

People have trail camera pics of deer getting used to blinds with a few days.

However, I have set up the day of and threw a few branches on my blind and deer walk right by, look stop, then go back to whatever they do.

If your in a corn field like I was last year, you simply set up in the middle. No brushing in. The deer come right out and will look at you for 30 seconds and go right on eating and forget about you.

Thats how I killed two deer last year in late season.

Here is a nice late season blind

If you want your blind to last many years, and you don't want it to become the home of critters, you don't have to leave them out long. And you can pack them up for the next year.

Last year I never left a blind out over night. But this year I have a new place full of pin oaks and the shooting lanes a real low to the ground and the bedding is within 75 yards. So I will be leaving one...lol


Doug