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SaskGuy

SaskGuy

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Of taking a pop up blind and setting it up amongst bales and not having the deer spook. I really need to be in a perfect spot and due to lack of trees and wind direction I am thinking it will be almost impossible to set up anywhere else. It would likely be a one shot deal but if I could get away with it I would likely have a shot at one of the 2 bucks I would really like a shot at.
 
boy, that might work if you have bales to be apart of the scenery, but my experience with blinds and deer is the blind has to spend some time out there for them to become comfortable with it.

but with that said, having bales near by, id set the blind up right next to a bale and give it a shot.... the key to a blind is it needs to 'disappear' and the bales might just make that happen!

let us know what you do?
 
There are approximately 500 large round bales (1400lbs) scattered over the large alfalfa field, maybe a dzen to 20 down in the little 3 or 4 acre corner I am inteested in.
 
id say do it! with all those bales, i highly doubt a deer is smart enough to descern a difference..... specifically where is the guessing game now, and wind would make or break this hunt.... but im sure you already know that. /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: THA4</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> id set the blind up right next to a bale and give it a shot.... </div></div>

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YES, if it were ME, I'd be putting that sucker up as soon as possible so deer get used to it. If you put hay all over it somehow (string or something) I'd think they hardly would need to get used to it. I think your situation is ideal and not a problem.
*Forgot to mention what, IMO, is the biggest challenge- making sure your SCENT isn't all over. And I mean all over the blind, all over the area from walking around getting it ready as well as the obvious of when you hunt it.
 
I am really not thinking about setting it up and letting them get used to it. I am more thinking, go in tomorrow afternoon, pop it up and hope they mistake it for a bale at sunset and walk right past me.
 
I'd cover it with hay and give it a whirl, get out EARLY!!! Want to see pictures! /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sligh1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'd cover it with hay and give it a whirl</div></div>

yep!
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: THA4</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sligh1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'd cover it with hay and give it a whirl</div></div>

yep! </div></div>

Been there done that....it works. Go for it and when you kill one, get some pics of the setup too!!!
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Saskguy</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I am really not thinking about setting it up and letting them get used to it. I am more thinking, go in tomorrow afternoon, pop it up and hope they mistake it for a bale at sunset and walk right past me. </div></div>

Bingo... that's what I'd do. You might spray that sucker down as much as possible and then leave it next to your bale for a future hunt.

Don't forget tent stakes.
 
Kaare,
I don't know if you have this option but if you can pull one out of a row and put it on the end then set your blind to replace the one that has been moved. This is the way to go. /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cool.gif
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Limb Chicken</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Kaare,
I don't know if you have this option but if you can pull one out of a row and put it on the end then set your blind to replace the one that has been moved. This is the way to go. /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cool.gif </div></div>

That sounds like an awesome plan but at 1400 lbs he might need some equipment.
 
Limb, they are not in rows. They are right where the baler spit them out and that means scattered all over the place, some close together some far apart. He will eventually just come out with a tractor and a wagon and load them up and haul them home but at 20 to 30 bales max a trip, it will take him awhile and the area I need to be in will be the area last gathered up. On Monday when I had my good encounter they moseyed within easy arrow distance of quite a few bales. I wish I could hand draw a picture of the scenario because the se corner is a perfect funnel location due to about 20 acres not being in alfalfa but rockpiles and slough grass.
 
I am thinking, what is the worse that can happen, I blow my chance for now on either of the 2 old bucks and find a new one to hunt on a different property. If that doesnèt pan out a guy can always try his hand again in October or even Novemeber and hope they make a mistake again. I really feel if had put a blind out there when he baled, and I should have, I would be done hunting whitetails for the year.
 
Hey Kaare. Just make sure the farmer isn't out there picking up bale's when your hunting! /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/eek.gif Ouch! /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
Could you try a decoy to sweeten the deal? It would a) attract the bucks to your bale (blind) over any of the others and b) distract any attention they might pay to a bale that looked different than the others...

In my experience, early season bucks can be very vulnerable to dekes. Bachelor groups are breaking up and bucks are relocating to different areas. They meet up with a "stranger" they haven't spent the summer with and they want to check him out.

Just a thought. Hope you get one! Good luck!
 
The only thing that worries me about a decoy is how many other bucks will have a chance to check it out before the ones I am after.

On Monday another 10 or so bucks used the exact entrance as the ones I want to hunt, they were younger bucks and did it well before sunset.
 
Here's your solution.....

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