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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Skinnybill on December 17, 2012, 11:56:00 AM
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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?
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Around here any hole over a foot deep would have water in it.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Exactly what I was thinking killshot. Just a hole deep enough to put my legs in.
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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
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They work for ducks.
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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
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Its been done for years. Lots of the old ways still work. Do thar while wearing a ghillie.
Chuckc
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We've hunted West Texas hogs that way and it works great.
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That is next seasons plan for me,and my hunting buddy. Dig a hole,build the blind,blend the outside with the surroundings.