Dark Blind Question

[leebtattoos]

Hmmm..... Maybe a ghillie suite is calling my name?! Thanks for the input.

i think you are over thinking this. how come all of us get plenty close, with out a silly suite on? heck, i wear shorts and a black long sleeve t-shirt most of the time.

[Artos]

Hmmm..... I don't deer hunt (accept axis does when meat is needed) but do a lot of photography. Reason why mesh won't work. I can film and photograph from a treestand all day long and i works effectively but it makes for odd angles. I'm just trying to find a way to get on the ground without getting busted. Maybe a ghillie suite is calling my name?! Thanks for the input.

can you make a hole in the mesh to just fit your lens through...it should help.

[tadmaryperry]

We paint the outside of the windows black. That way, when they are closed, it looks the same to the deer and they don't care anymore.

[J.B.]

Black is the way to go. If you don't want to spray paint your pop-up windows then clip or clothespin an old black shirt or black cloth on your shooter window.

[big_smith]

Don't paint the entire blind black, unless you really want to die of heat stroke. I try to paint ours a lighter color to reflect some sun, and tuck them in the shade where possible.

[Archery1st]

I think it depends a lot on the individual deer and where you hunt. I have seen mutiple instances of Mature Bucks and Does that will not walk/stand in front of a black window.

In Mexico - it just don't matter. I think anything works there. The deer just don't seem to care.

In the Hill Country and or Day Lease - I will have mesh up at the very least.

In South Texas or a "low pressure" ranch - I have found I can get away with a lot more. Black windows, not burying the blind in brush etc.

I have also seen the other extreme. On the Daughtry WMA - several years ago I put out a blind in an area and buried it in the brush with cactus in the foreground and left one window open. I mean this blind was buried complete with military camo netting drapped over the whole blind. Only thing visible was the black hole of the one window I had open.

I had a mature doe come in the first evening and ate a few kernals of corn. She looked up and saw the black window and almost did a back flip getting out of there. I zipped up the window and cut a small camera hole in window and a small vertical slit in the window to shoot through. So picture all the windows closed with a small 3" circle cut for the camera and a 4"x6" vertical hole cut through the window to shoot through with the mesh up behind it.

Talk about tunnel vision - but it worked. The next morning that doe came back, looked at the blind once and immeadiately calmed down and ate for over an hour. It was the middle of the rut and having a live doe decoy was a huge plus. The last day of the hunt I killed a 154" ten point that came in to check out that same doe.