Just taken advantage of a tree uprooted last year by the wind. This blind is on the point of a brushy draw that sticks out into a bean field. Hopefully I will have pics in a couple of weeks. It was just starting to rain when we left from the blind setup, all or most of the scent should be gone. How much do you guys brush in your blinds ?? How much time do you typically wait to hunt them after setup??
Nice job. I never hunt deer from ground blinds anymore. I have hunted them from the ground a lot back in my trad days, but I never used blinds. Good luck!
You did a great job brushing that blind in! I try at brush mine in as good as possible but I don't stress over it. In my experience the deer get used to it after a couple weeks though I wouldn't think you would need to way that long to hunt it
Wow looks real good, "Brushed" my first blind a few weeks ago and don't think it was quiet as stealth as yours. After I brushed the blind I sat in it a week later, had a 5 point walk within 5 yards and he had no clue.
Nice set up! Back when I first started bow hunting (70s) I often used dead falls as a natural blind. I would just add some extra branches. Tree stands hadn't caught on yet, but I think this is about when Baker tree stands first came out. lol
I like the idea. Although, I like sharing this story: My family had a similar idea one year, taken advantage of a couple uprooted trees to makeshift a brush blind. They were located on the edge of a hay field. My uncle went out to sit in that same blind opening day of gun season (mid November in Minnesota), and before he climbed in, he stumbled on a denned up black bear that had taken over the set-up as its winter hideaway. Scared him half to death. Bears tend to den up in northern Minnesota (depending on weather) around the end of September to the end of October, and no one had visited the blind since we made it back in the summer. So, for the sleepy black bear, it was a great spot to hunker-up for cold months ahead; we essentially constructed the perfect winter get-away home for him. Just thought I would share. Not saying anything bad about brush blinds, still think it's a great idea.
Definitely something to think about, I'm pretty sure there's a family of bobcats living under the rootball of this tree. Theses are pics from my trail-camera, it's hanging on the uprooted stump. There's four in this pic Three wrestling, momma laying to the side Last pic is just of mom, I think
