So the few thousand acre lease I'm on is a working ranch as are most in West Texas. The particular pasture that my blinds are on is roughly 450 acres and cattle are rarely on it. Well wouldn't you know that after a year of no cattle, they put a bunch on their during the week of Thanksgiving.
My feeders, and rifle spots are immune to cattle problems but the issue I'm dealing with now is the cows destroying my pop-ups that I bow hunt out of. I have a nice 4 day set of pictures of the cows using my pop-up as a scratching post and eventually destroying it.
Clearly I am skeptical to put another blind out there as I know that they are just going to tear it down again but I would much rather bow hunt than rifle hunt. Has anyone found any ways to keep the cattle away from their blinds? I don't leave anything in there besides a chair so it wasn't like they are trying to get food or anything else.
Was thinking my only option would be to cut some decent size trees and put them around to create a barrier (hate to have to do that with 4 weeks left of the season) or put some t-post in and run some wire around. Problem with the wire however is leaving myself shooting lanes and being able to get in and out without ripping up my hunting gear.
My feeders, and rifle spots are immune to cattle problems but the issue I'm dealing with now is the cows destroying my pop-ups that I bow hunt out of. I have a nice 4 day set of pictures of the cows using my pop-up as a scratching post and eventually destroying it.
Clearly I am skeptical to put another blind out there as I know that they are just going to tear it down again but I would much rather bow hunt than rifle hunt. Has anyone found any ways to keep the cattle away from their blinds? I don't leave anything in there besides a chair so it wasn't like they are trying to get food or anything else.
Was thinking my only option would be to cut some decent size trees and put them around to create a barrier (hate to have to do that with 4 weeks left of the season) or put some t-post in and run some wire around. Problem with the wire however is leaving myself shooting lanes and being able to get in and out without ripping up my hunting gear.
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