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Has anyone ever hunted from a hunting build I dont really see the point to them. Unless you are not in good shape to climb up in the tree. what are the pros over a blind compared to a tree stand.

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You can move without the deer seeing the movement. In cold, rainy, or snowy weather, you'll be a lot warmer.

You can take a child and talk quietly without spooking the deer. They have become accustomed to the box stand being there. When youare ina tree stand, it is different and sometimes the deer recognizethat something is odd and just slip away.

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Safer. I havn't fallen out of my blind yet

Warmer. They cut the wind down bigtime,

Comfortable. Bring any kind of chair you want, plus you can get up and stretch occasionally


Conceal movement.You can get ready for the shot, go to full draw etc without movement being detected

Introduce young hunter. The youth can make movements for now that would have got them busted in a tree stand.

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that was exactly what i was going to say.

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And one more reason is that there are no trees in the deserts of Wyoming;) It's just not about Whitetails you know;)

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blinds are nice because they block the elements and keep your scent from flowing all over the place. you can set them up anywhere as long as you break up the outline with vegetation/brush or you give the animals a chance to get use to it ( maybe 3-5 days in the some spots). i have the ameristep outhouse set up 15 yards from a scrape in my food plots. it is surrounded by brush. the deer didn't even get spooked the first night they came by it. blinds are a nice change up if for some reason you don't want to climb a tree. i can't wait to use it next year for turkey season:)

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Ihave an Ameristep doghouse with TSC (total scent containment) I have not used it this year for deer hunting, used it to turkey hunt with my bow. It is awesome when it is raining out or cold. hides your movement,cuts the wind down.

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Ground blinds have made hunting with my kids, age 10 & 12,much more enjoyable for both of us. I don't have to keep nagging them to sit perfectly still so they have a better time hunting. Just get one that is bigger than you think you will need.

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Also it will allow me to take a 5 year old grand daughter on her first hunting trip.Yes it's also great for older hunters.

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sounds like it has mostly be said. I have two pop up's and a couple permanent one's.

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Deerhunter,enjoy your youth.I hope you are still hunting thirty years from now and you'll understand.

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Let me share with you a great way to make a ground blind. I like to use a section of 4x8paint scaffolding which is about 6ft high ... I take a 4x8 piece of 3/4 inch plywood and place on topfor the floor (use 3 two by fours for a floorbrace)... I then tie a tent blind on top of the scaffolding....all in all your about 7ft high ...out of the wind and rain ... if you can find an old piece of scaffolding at a rental store you can buy them for about $50.00 ...and all in all you will have about $150.00 in this set up that you can put up or take down in less then 15 min.

dd

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The scaffold idea sounds like it would be good after it's set up, but first you have to lug those heavy things down into the woods [&:]

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i make my blind out of died stuff on the ground i don't care anything thing in the woods while mabey a saw and some string you can make all kinds of blinds that away

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Early in the season i take a pair of hand clippers with me and cut some branches off the trees in directions i will be shooting. cut the stick end to a bit of a point and stick them in the ground all around you in a circle. Make them just high enough that you can still see clearly over them. you will also be able to see through them but this helps break up your body a bit.

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and blinds are useful at spots where you can't find a tree to put a treestand in so you gotta use a different method of concealing yourself.

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Yep, we're hunting land this year that has some pasture that's boardered to the north by a big row of pine trees. Unfortunately all the trees are just on the other side of the fence on someone else's property. Seen a lot of deerfollowing the tree row but still on our property. We're gonna place our popup blind so it butts up against the fence/trees.

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Here is mine.


I wouldn't exactly call it hunting, but it's effective. It is sealed to the elements, I have a small heater and I can get away with quite a bit. I can eat, stretch out if I want to, talk to my buddies on walki talkis if I want to. I even have a small radio with headphones for when I get really bored and the deer are not moving.

I can stay in this blind all day no matter what the weather is and stay dry and fairly warm. I have killed deer on days where if I had to sit in a tree stand I would have stayed home.

I don't drive my car to the blind during the season either, I was doing some work on it in the off season. We have three of these blinds on different sides of a 50 acre property.

Paul

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Heres the best blinds on the market :D I really like these stands.......

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Another picture of them being delivered

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That looks great for the real cold days or getting a kid involved

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Here is the DELUXE model LOL. I dont have any of these, they cost the same as a car................

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I use pop-up blinds a lot , and besides what the others have said in their favor one thing I like most about them is this:

I've never heard of anyone dying from falling out of their chair in a pop-up .

That's good enough for me . ;)