I been asking around about hunting deer from a blind on the same day it is set up. Leaving the blind in the woods is not an option.
What has been your "actual experience" doing this?
I would be using this blind in hardwood bottoms, deep in the woods.
I am considering the new Yukon Tracks Enforcer Elite with the Adrenaline camo.
Just brush it in as good as you can, with stuff laying around. Blend it in real nice and purty and you shouldn't have a problem. When you take it home, just pile the brush up where you can easily and quickly grab it and brush it in again the next time you hunt in that spot.
I like to cut a blind-sized hole into the side of a big bushy cedar tree, or a blackjack oak, stick the blind in there, then use what I cut off the tree to brush the blind in.
Good luck!
I have tried to use a blind for deer but they sure don't like them. I have had them pick me out every time. I haven't brushed them in because it is illegal to cut flora and fauna on state and federal land in Pa.
Wollely,
Interesting that you are bowhunting and it's illegal to cut flora and fauna. Fauna is wildlife and you are trying to cut a deer. LOL
About portable blinds and deer. You have to brush em in or don't bother using them. A deer will pick out the blind at distance the first time. Been there done that. If you brush em in, they work well.
Mike
How much "brushing in" are we talking about? Thanks fellas.
If you have to brush them in,,,"Why use them" Seems a natural hide would be as affective and less hassle.
Thanks for the heads up on the fauna Wingnut, i was doing just that, trying to cut some fauna backstraps. They will arrest you for cutting any kind of plants on Pa state game lands.
Only luck Ive had on same day setups is in open fields. One property I hunt has Cedar on the upwind edge. Deer bed down in there right on the field edge. Cant get in there without spooking them.. I put blind in almost center of the field. Worked a few times so far.
I have set my blind up and hunted it the same day and seen deer and had shot opportunities. Early fall is a better time than late season for obvious reasons.
If there are any hemlocks around you can set up under a low hanging branch, I have good luck when I break up the roof line a little.
No Hemlock, only southern bottomland hardwood, oaks, rock elm, hackberry, etc.
Well I ordered the Yukon Tracks Enforcer Elite with the Adrenaline camo. That camo sure looks real, just like trees. We'll see.
ive used them havent had huge prob it puts them slightly on edge when they frist see it but they calm done shortly if they dont see anything else for sure have to use the shoo tthru nets they hate the dark holes more than anything IMO
I purchased an Ameristep Dominator before last season. I carried it to and from the woods. I was fortunate enough to harvest a seven point and a doe with my bow while using it.
I think the "shoot thru mesh" was REALLY cool. Didn't throw off the path of the arrow at all!
John,
I have used brushed in blinds, and not so brushed in blinds and was successful. As has been said, covering the windows with mesh or at least breaking the "Big Black Hole" effect of the windows is important.
Here in Oklahoma, on state land, we can not cut any foliage either. In a fairly short time though, I have always been able to find broken branches or deadfall brush I can use. I have a few different brands of blinds. It seems to me that the more domed shaped ones are a little less likely to spook deer than the really square ones. "No straight edges in nature" comes to mind.
I also hunt in big timber bottomlands and use big slabs of bark more often than limbs or brush to help my blind blend in.
Good Luck.
OkKeith
In my experience they need to be brushed in. If you can tuck them back in a cedar tree or something else that is even better. In Kansas where the wind always blows it is nice to have some shelter. I am more willing to stay longer so a blind is a definite plus over just sitting in a natural blind.
I set my double bull up and shot 2 deer out of it the same afternoon, got my black bear the same way. Use the shoot through netting and you should be okay unless the deer are really wired. As you have read here though everyone has a different response, I think it depends on how hunted your local deer are.
Joseph, what was the situation where you got 2 deer the same day?