This will be my first year hunting out of a ground blind, I have a spot picked out in a wood line over looking a small patch of soy beans. My question or concerns are how early does everyone else set their blind up and brush it in? Has anyone had any issues with wind or other natural elements damaging their blinds if they are out to long? Has anyone had any issue with bears, I ask this because my father has lost two climber seats and a four wheeler seat to bears and the only thing we can think of was the human scent on them and I have been getting a bear on camera a few hundred yards away from location I want to set the blind up. I purchased an Ameristep hub blind and the material seems thick and it has ground stakes for the wind. Just throwing this thread out there to see if I can get some advice from people that have experience with blinds. Thanks for any help!
I put mine out a few weeks before the season and brush it in so the deer get used to it. The wind shouldn't really be a factor unless it's a tornado lol here's mine
I set up a ground blind in a hedgerow and really brushed it in (so I thought). After a week of hunting out of it w/o any problems, the farmer let the cattle out to the pasture on one side and whella... the cows broke through the fence and trampled the blind - breaking the rods and totally wrecking it. Prior than that... it worked great (and there are bears in the area there too).
PA Depends in the ground? I set mine up a big rounds hay bales and that works great. But that is ND! PSR
Have mine right on the edge of a treeline. It's thick so I didn't need to brush it in that much. I actually bought 10" tent stakes instead of the cheap ones that come with the blind. That along with some cord to anchor it down, I think it will last.
First and only time I've setup a ground blind on our property and a bear tore it down and destroyed it within one week. Really is property specific.
Mgh I am not to far from you and there are 4 different bear in the area, that's why I am afraid to set it up to early. I might just set it up outback the house and get the scent off of it and then spray it down good the week I set it up. Jake/pa I have the same not to much to brush in more like need to cut brush to get the foot print of the blind cleared out. pastor/scotty No hay bails around here but I have seen that again thanks everyone and keep the info coming!!!!
gltomp I might start to hunt up in your area next year, might get access to a large chunk of land along with a friend I know has a cabin touching state up in that area. I really want to start to be a multi state hunter.
