Blind setup......

[Peacock]

If you were going to have a permanent bow hunting setup, what would be your dream ultimate blind setup? Chain on stand, ladder stand, tripod, ground blind? Sitting on a deer trail, corn feeder, protein feeder? In thick cover, or in a tree over looking a wide open field that is a huge food plot? If you already have your dream setup tell me about it, or pictures are even better!! The reason I ask, is I’m wanting to set one up and could use some ideas. The land I hunt has the options for any of the possibilities mentioned above. Thanks

[Codie]

Ground Blind setup in thick brush near a corn feeder that sits 50-100 yards off of a wheatfield in a low draw that all the animals use to make their way into the wheatfield. I would also want the blind in a position where I could see the feild as well. That way if there is nothing moving near me in the brush, I would still have the animals on the field to keep my impatiant rear occupied.

[Peacock]

Ground Blind setup in thick brush near a corn feeder that sits 50-100 yards off of a wheatfield in a low draw that all the animals use to make their way into the wheatfield. I would also want the blind in a position where I could see the feild as well. That way if there is nothing moving near me in the brush, I would still have the animals on the field to keep my impatiant rear occupied.

When setting up a permanent ground blind, how do you consider wind, or do you just put it out and hope for the best?

[Codie]

When setting up a permanent ground blind, how do you consider wind, or do you just put it out and hope for the best?

I have been bowhunting for 15yrs and have NEVER worried about what the wind was doing. I have sat on white 5 gallon buckets in the brush 20 yards off of trails leading into wheatfields and had deer as close as 2 yards that never knew I was there. Some say I was just lucky, but after hunting like this for 15yrs, I would say it just doesn't matter. (The places I have bowhunted are VERY low-hutning pressure ranches, which can be different than hunting like this in an area where the hunting pressure is high)

[Slick8]

I use a wooden ground blind placed directly west of the feeder. Where I hunt that's a rare wind direction. The blind has no floor and is buried about 1 inch in the sand, well sealed and very quiet. It's also placed at the base of a large oak with overhanging limbs as well as some natural ground brush. The inside of the blind is black and it’s very dark with the overhanging brush. My only issue with this has been limited visibility causing me to be busted a few times when exiting the blind. I’m going to add a few small viewing windows at all corners to help with this.

I'm thinking the same thing about adding a stand. I'd like to add a lock on at that feeder or on a well used trail and hand corn it.

[Peacock]

I have been bowhunting for 15yrs and have NEVER worried about what the wind was doing. I have sat on white 5 gallon buckets in the brush 20 yards off of trails leading into wheatfields and had deer as close as 2 yards that never knew I was there. Some say I was just lucky, but after hunting like this for 15yrs, I would say it just doesn't matter. (The places I have bowhunted are VERY low-hutning pressure ranches, which can be different than hunting like this in an area where the hunting pressure is high)

Thats good to hear! I have worried myself sick over wind, because I'm new to bowhunting. Thanks for the help.

[coach_stew]

Ground blind.... i worry about the sunrise and sunset more then the wind. If you go with a ground blind (permanent or pop-up) i would suggest painting the window coverings black. Open or closed it will always look the same....

[chris1911]

question.....i have a loc on 25 ft up a tree bout 150 yrds from a pine thicket. lots of pin oaks and a few white oaks. bout 45 yards behind me is a small wheeler trail thats not used and for about a 40 yd stretch on that trail there is a scrape line. would i want to put a feeder in the area or would that alert them to me being there?

[Peacock]

I use a wooden ground blind placed directly west of the feeder. Where I hunt that's a rare wind direction. The blind has no floor and is buried about 1 inch in the sand, well sealed and very quiet. It's also placed at the base of a large oak with overhanging limbs as well as some natural ground brush. The inside of the blind is black and it’s very dark with the overhanging brush. My only issue with this has been limited visibility causing me to be busted a few times when exiting the blind. I’m going to add a few small viewing windows at all corners to help with this.

I'm thinking the same thing about adding a stand. I'd like to add a lock on at that feeder or on a well used trail and hand corn it.

The sand is a good idea! Nice and quiet. Hope snakes don't ever bury up in it though.

[Peacock]

Ground blind.... i worry about the sunrise and sunset more then the wind. If you go with a ground blind (permanent or pop-up) i would suggest painting the window coverings black. Open or closed it will always look the same....

Is the ground blind pretty hot in early October?

[txdukklr]

is the ground blind pretty hot in early october?

yes!!!

[kenforu]

ground blind

Ground blind here is the start to one. would sell for 200.00

[coach_stew]

Is the ground blind pretty hot in early October?

I don’t know from experience but it can get hot in November too!

[jerp]

My permanent ground blind is uncomfortably hot if it is the high 70's and unhuntable (for me anyway) if it's in the 80's or higher. Some guys just tough it out but when it's hot you will find me 12-15' off the ground trying catch a breeze.

[Chad]

I have a Gametamer 13' up in a big Live Oak with 2 shooting lanes, heavy trail that comes right underneath me with another 12 yards to the West. Both are coming out of a very thick draw that goes perpendicular with the Salado Creek. The trail to the West is going parallel with a cross fence with the only open gate on the cross fence approximately 30 yards from the stand. I have a water trough setup 16 yards from the treestand and a hog wallow 21 yards from the tree in the center of a shooting lane. I have a 20 acre oat patch 75 yards to the East, so all the deer pass by me on the way to the plot. I also have a Double Bull Matrix setup for an alternate wind direction. No feeder setup here, but I hand corn it 2-4 times a week.

This is by far my favorite setup, I ALWAYS see deer everytime I hunt this spot. I have killed 8 deer and 3 hogs from either the Gametamer or the DB. Great place to rattle also, coming out of that draw.