Blind Strategies

[SaskGuy]

Been reading alot about pop ups lately, ended up buying an Ameristep Brickhouse hub style. Basically can't get double bull or anything else here. Anyways.....been reading some info about techniques. A couple things I read say that putting it in the open can be an effective strategie.

Basically....I've got this early season food source, alfalfa, by the time next week rolls around the swaths of hay should be rolled up into some new big round bales. Does anyone have any insight on what the deer will think of the blind if I set it amongst them as soon as he gets them rolled up?

 

[DWilk]

I have set blinds in a row of bales before and the deer didn't pay it no mind at all.

I don't know how they will receive it in a field with other bales. Turkeys don't mind it out in the open, but in my experience, deer don't like it at all. If you put it up right about when the other bales are rolled up, and make sure the windows are shut, then you could have good luck. I think they just need time to get used to it.

Otherwise, it is best to break up the outlines. If deer aren't used to it, they don't like it for some reason. If you have any kind of cover around and can afford to be on a field edge, then simply brushing them in and breaking up the solid outlines of the blind is all it takes. Good luck

 

[Critter]

Anyway you could persuade the farmer to set three of them in a triangle close enough to create a natural blind leaving enough room between them to shoot through?

 

[timekiller]

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Anyway you could persuade the farmer to set three of them in a triangle close enough to create a natural blind leaving enough room between them to shoot through?

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This has worked for me.

 

[bowhuntr311]

If the moving bales doesnt work. Just try it. You already bought the blind, whats the worst thats going to happen? Your not going to shoot a deer?

Dean

 

[vman]

if you can get it out there now, and not hunt it for a month and a half id do it. If not, your screwed with a bow.

In my experiance deer just do not like then unless they have been there for a while.

 

[nannyslayer]

Make sure to cover the blind with the "natural" suroundings. That has really helped me out in the past.

 

[M350]

I would highly reccomend puting the blind on the end of a bale stack-not in between two bales. The limited visibility will drive you NUTS. Even on the ends you lose some visibility, but at lease you can see anything or anyone sneakin in along the sides of you. Vman is on the moneey about leavin it out a while, without being brushed in heavily you're pretty apt to be busted by those darn deer. A decoy, later on , does help draw attention away from you and brushin' em' in isn't as important. One mor little bit of hindsight is that your scent control in a blind is WAY important. A blind seems to concentrate scent until exactly the wrong time---Soak the thing with scent killer of some sort often. Your Ameristep blind being made of nylon will also give off a bit of a sheen therefor cloudy days,just like waterfowl hunting, will probably be the best time for sit. And just so you know, I own Around 40 working pop-up blinds and do use them for whitetails where the circumstances require 'em.Just my 2 cents worth. Get a comfortable QUIET chair, the sits can be long.