Has any one done this with a Double Bull blind? how did it go? any hints or tips? :campfire:
Here's what my previous week looked like at different times of day from the DB Matrix 360:
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0 turkeys dead, and 2 BIG hogs winded me. I also brought the wrong limbs for the arrows I brought! 57# instead of 50#! I was sitting in the blind with a sore neck and sore butt, trying to decide whether the shoot through netting was necessary,and whether or not I needed a back-supporting chair (I was using a stool) and these 2 hogs had snuck up on me, smelled me and I saw them before they vanished.
So I took a few more:
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and once I switched ranches midweek, and equipment:
I killed two BIG toms. Go figure.....
I usually only use my Double Bull blind only when I'm hunting an area where I want to set up and sit for a time. If I'm on the run I tend to hunt with a piece of camo material and a pair of clippers to make a quick makeshift blind.
I'm always on the move when it comes to turkey hunting.
Call.....Walk.....Call.....Walk.....travel light!!!!! :archer:
I'm with woodchucker. It is a prerequisite for my annual elk pilgrimage so I run,call on the 60 mile network of hiking trails at Land Between the Lakes Nat'l. Rec area. I considered buying a 3 legged stool with carrying strap to carry but the foilage is finally coming out so I'll continue to go light,just a fanny pack. I use the yelper(call from BDU thigh pocket),
a few mouth diaphrams--don't carry decoys,etc.... good exercise anyway.....sure is an exciting way to hunt the birds..I sit enough during the Fall deer hunting.....
Quoteand once I switched ranches midweek, and equipment:
I killed two BIG toms. Go figure.....
What equipment didja go to?
Double bull used to (probably still do, I don't know) sell a pack that was made to carry the blind so you could run and gun turks with it. Being short, and somewhat lazy about carrying heavy things on my back, I never tried it. I use my DB to set up a static hunt, usually along a travel route from the roost tree to the strutting zone or something like that. If I run and gun I try to find natural cover. I have an older blind that I plan to cut up and use the fabric for a portable screen.
My friend Jim Reynolds (Thunderstick Bows) told me about using an old garage sale golf bag cart to bunge a blind and decoys to and pull around the woods. I picked one up recently for $10 and I can't wait to use give it a try!