Blind or Treestads
#11
RE: Blind or Treestads
If you stay out all day , and like still hunting at midday like me , go with a pop-up blind . Portability makes for a less boring day , and a camo blind hides your movement and some smell . I have an Ameristep blind , it weighs 4 pounds , and carries on your back . Treestands have their good points , but my personal feeling about them is that they are too limiting . Besides , trees are for squirrels .
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Gypsum KS USA
Posts: 1,289
RE: Blind or Treestads
I prefer to sit in a ground blind, then advance in a still hunt/stalk when the day is warm. Being in a tree stand is all well and good, and I' ve got several hung, and hang more during the year, but what I actually hunt the most is on the ground. I don' t use store bought groundblinds mind you, I only use natural materials located where I' m hunting, fallen logs for uprights, goodly limbs for trusses, branchy limbs and rose vines for concealment and roofing. Roll in a good thick log for a bench, and figure out where you' re best shooting lanes are to arrange good " loopholes" through the brush. This bow season, I took a shot, missed, couldn' t find the arrow, so I told my buddy to walk out there and I' d stand in the mouth of the blind and direct him to it, wanted to use hand signals so that we wouldn' t have to hollar, but he couldn' t see me, while he knew where the stand was and I was in front of it, from only 35yrds!!!
#15
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Kingsford Michigan USA
Posts: 717
RE: Blind or Treestads
I mostly hunt out of trees with my bow on my land but when it comes to rifle hunting i use a ground blind made of nat. cover and i do have a couple blinds with sliding windows and stuff and then this year i bought 2 portable blinds a wigwam blind and a doghouse blind so im hoping to do both bowhunting and riflehunting out of them.