How about some tips on how you set up your ground blinds (and pictures)

Brush in the front and brush behind to break up your outline.  Are you making a natural blind or using a pop up?

I just sit up against a tree using a torges style seat. So in this photo, I am against the large oak center, I have a log on my right giving me a little cover, and a little junk in front of me. The rest of my cover is from the blow downs, or brush several yards around me. Stay low and only move when you have to. Shot a doe @33yrds from this spot on the day I took the pic.

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Here are a few older threads that might help you out.  Some of the pictures have been deleted but i think there are still enough to give you some ideas.  Good luck!

Here's my only ground blind.  I usually just find a tree to lean against.

This one has a bench seat.      :D    

Up close you can see the bow on the bench and my quiver where I would be sitting.  It's open upper and lots of cover low so I can kneel or drop and face the other way with less movement showing.

   


Further off.  Over my right shoulder is a series of paths I keep mowed through a brush lot.  My rabbit hunting area and a deer "social spot" evenings.
   

It sits in a little "grove" of hemlocks among smaller hardwoods.  There is a creek 40 yards in front and the terrain slopes up in front and behind (faces the prevailing West wind).  Off to the right is a field on the other side of a powerline right-of-way.

West (the lighter/open area is the creek)
   

North
   

East
   

South looks about like North but it is thicker.

These spots look good

Stumpkiller, that looks like one heck of a location!

in the north east I like to look for HOLLY trees and then go inside them trim away the dead stuff and and rake the leaves away from the base..  they are the coolest trees that are perfect natural blinds to shoot out of.

My wife Nancy and I started bow hunting deer in the 50's when there were no tree stands or pop up blinds available. You either still hunted or hunted in a blind made from natural materials. If we found a well used run where deer were traveling we started looking for a spot close to the run that with a little brushing in would conceal.

I once ambushed a deer from a spot only 5 yards from a runway. My only cover was a pine stump that had a small pine sapling beside of it. I filled in the gaps with ferns leaving a narrow shooting hole. There was a hole/depression behind the stump where I put my feet so I could sit right on the ground. (a short bow is an advantage) My backside was in the open. I took advantage of what was already there and added only what was needed. To the deer it looked just like it had always looked.

Here's Nancy in one of her favorite ground blinds in the pines.  

     

Here she is standing up from her stool in another hot spot.

     

although lotsa things work, I am of the opinion that less is usually better.  A large pile of stuff in the middle of a manicured area (cause you moved all the stuff to the pile) might put the critters on edge, unless it has been there a while.  You don't always need a ton of stuff to hide you well enough.
ChuckC

Blown down trees and their tops make great blinds when they are in the right place.

Shot a buck from this spot.  

I bought a used DB blind last year for a pronghorn hunt, worked great.  I just set it up yesterday in a group of young pines where I will hunt in December.  This is on my own land.  I have my eye on an 8pt.

The Hidden Hunter blind is a great alternative when a natural blind isn't where it should be.

 
http://www.shrewbows.com/hiddenhunterblinds/index.html

This has worked well near a elk waterhole.

TRACY,
 You did real good on that blind setup! The colors and patterns go great...I also really like Charlie's set up as well...  

Look at my "TX Hunters Check In" thread.

What's behind you is more important than front cover.
 

"What's behind you is more important than front cover."

Couldn't agree more! I was only hunting with a camera, but I picked a different spot each day and just sat near big stumps and blow downs and such. Only time I got busted was moving the shiny video camera too much to get a better angle. I had deer within 5 yards many times last week. Does and bucks! Notice how Charlie has the ground cleared under his feet. Very important!

Quote"What's behind you is more important than front cover."  

I agree that back cover is important but not always more important.... As I posted earlier,


 "I once ambushed a deer from a spot only 5 yards from a runway. My only cover was a pine stump that had a small pine sapling beside of it. I filled in the gaps with ferns leaving a narrow shooting hole. There was a hole/depression behind the stump where I put my feet so I could sit right on the ground. (a short bow is an advantage) My backside was in the open. I took advantage of what was already there and added only what was needed. To the deer it looked just like it had always look"

In that case the runway was very close and it was more important to be concealed from the front than from the back. There was a cameraman in a pop up blind on top of the hill behind me. The deer actually stopped to look at the blind that was silhouetted on top of the hill. I drew and shot through a narrow shooting slot. My backside was open but the cover in front of me was more important than cover behind me in this situation.

Every situation has it's own special needs. Like this willow blind I built for antelope.