RE: How many make/use homemade ground blinds?
 

Thanks for ideas on how to make a ground blind to hunt from. I have a tree stand but I don't have any steps for yet so I can't use it. I wouldn't have thought of building a teepee to hunt from. Thanks again for the idea.

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I usually carry a piece of camo, maybe 4x6 feet for making a quick makeshift blind. You can use dead fall and trees along with the camo to make a pretty good blind in a hurry. For a more permanent blind I use mesh wire panels about 4 feet wide. Cut them into about 4 foot sections and then I make a couple of notches you can stick a rifle through. Use heavy zip ties to connect them together. Weave cedar branches or other brush through the mesh squares or you can connect brush to the outside of the blind with zip ties. You can back into a cedar tree and only have to use one or two panels or make the blind out of 4 panels making a complete square.

Zip ties are the handiest thing there is for making ground blinds.

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thanks, thats a good tip, i appreciate it.
whats the typical size...of the blind area? rough guess of floor space?? so you can move around a little. etc
n

RE: How many make/use homemade ground blinds?
 

We have plenty of underbrush here, so I would be a fool not to use some of it. I carry garden-type hand pruners, jute twine, and some camo netting with me(it folds up to 6"X6"). It beats carrying a blind around for sure.

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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!

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I only hunt woods so alot of my ground blinds are made with downfall,I do have one that I used the mesh from wal-mart,its in some thicket,other then that I use the downfall to break up my siloet(spl).I also have a reg blind I put up this yr due to my surgery.....kinda got lazy and it showed....eating tag soup this yr......didnt get out much ether.

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[blockquote]Ranger----With a little garlic them tags aren't bad..Better than horn soup..
Lousy year for me here as well....Both in NY AND pa
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Work Great

RE: How many make/use homemade ground blinds?
 

hay bails work nice. keep you warm from the wind too

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have you notice the wind rattling the canvas and causeing the animals to be alarmed? Seems to me they would just get use to it especially if you leave it up for awhile and just ignore the flapping etc.
thanks
n