Has anyone ever dug a hole to set up in? Sometimes when sitting on the ground I feel like I stick out like a sore thumb. I sit there and think if I was sitting a bit further down, it would be nice. What do you think?
Around here any hole over a foot deep would have water in it.
I have hunted out of pit blinds in south TX. it works great. I have one on my lease now that if I shoot at a pig it is a dead level shot. If I shoot at a deer it is actually a little uphill shot! I have shot several pigs, a turkey, and a doe from that blind this year.
Bisch
I've had some luck in the past hunting out of ditches. Doesn't work much in S. FL unless you want to wear your scuba gear.
Yes, it's the way to go for a ground blind. Back in the 60's my dad built all his blinds like that. Maybe thats why he hunted an area that was primarily sandy soil. I build mine so when I sit down my butt is on the ground and my legs are bent as if I'm sitting in a chair. You can put brush around it and it wont look so obvious. Usually in a ground blind most hunters will use some sort of chair and build the brush up around it to the point that it sticks out unnaturally.
Exactly what I was thinking killshot. Just a hole deep enough to put my legs in.
My first bowhunting partner used pit blinds with success hunting Antelope in WY on public land.
He was on a large lake and glassed the lopes drinking in one location. There were low sage near by so he dug the pit in the sage, enhanced the brush a little and sat there the next day.
He took a very large P&Y buck.
Mike
They work for ducks.
i shot a buck out of a hole--it was formed by a oak uprooting-the logs laid on the down hill side of the hole--i sat on the ground with my feet in the hole-with the logs 5"in front it was a perfect hide with a busy rub line 20yrds in front of it
Its been done for years. Lots of the old ways still work. Do thar while wearing a ghillie.
Chuckc
We've hunted West Texas hogs that way and it works great.
That is next seasons plan for me,and my hunting buddy. Dig a hole,build the blind,blend the outside with the surroundings.