Shovelbuck
Active Member
Kaare, something like this is a lot of work for an afternoon hunt, but if you could maybe "prefab" the blind before you go, something like this would/should work. I had deer walking past it the first day.
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Bakes
Member
This will seal the deal
http://www.gooseview.com/gooseview/confidence_cow.htm
On a more serious note, I would put your blind as close to a bale as possible and cover it with hay the best you can and hope for the best.
http://www.gooseview.com/gooseview/confidence_cow.htm
On a more serious note, I would put your blind as close to a bale as possible and cover it with hay the best you can and hope for the best.
Limb Chicken
Active Member
The one that Jay has made will work well and looks great.
another option would be to bend conduit you could construct a round bail blind fairly quickly out of chicken wire and conduit. Have done it for waterfowl and it works great. Just make sure you have enough room to draw your bow. I am going to build one this winter again.
another option would be to bend conduit you could construct a round bail blind fairly quickly out of chicken wire and conduit. Have done it for waterfowl and it works great. Just make sure you have enough room to draw your bow. I am going to build one this winter again.
SaskGuy
Active Member
Thanks for all the advice guys, I definately think it is worth a shot. I believe that taking a popup in is easily my best route as I have to walk in nearly a mile to the spot.
Jay, how long did it take you to whip that up, I am pretty sure I could get away with something like that because the bales are large, somewhere around 5.5 to 6 feet high when in the same position as the one in your picture, just as the baler kicks them out. Just wondering if I would have enough time to turn a bare pop up into something like yours.
Jay, how long did it take you to whip that up, I am pretty sure I could get away with something like that because the bales are large, somewhere around 5.5 to 6 feet high when in the same position as the one in your picture, just as the baler kicks them out. Just wondering if I would have enough time to turn a bare pop up into something like yours.
Kaare, is the land owner a bud of yours? Just get him to put three bales together, like a triangle with a 4" slot on the one side to shoot out, Boom, blind that wont spook them. or you could roll them...sounds hard, but they roll. or roll them with your quad.
Personally, throwing a dark pop-up in the mix will make them take a BIG detour around you... But in reality I hope I have to eat those words shen i see the harvest pics on Saturday.
Personally, throwing a dark pop-up in the mix will make them take a BIG detour around you... But in reality I hope I have to eat those words shen i see the harvest pics on Saturday.
It's darn hard to get a whitetail to come near a freshly placed ground blind for quite a few days. I put mine out and brushed it in good last weekend for the opener on the 13th. That's over two weeks.
ROund bales are not that hard to move. You can roll them pretty easy. We used to roll them over all the time to make a spot with nice dry dirt for fox trapping. That's when it was frozen and snow on the ground. I would place one where you want the blind and put the blind there beside it as soon as possible. Make sure you brush the blind in with natural stuff and make it look like part of the landscape.
Frankly it seems like a longshot for a mature buck but if it was me and it was the only option I would do it in a hearbeat. Keep us posted on how it turns out.
ROund bales are not that hard to move. You can roll them pretty easy. We used to roll them over all the time to make a spot with nice dry dirt for fox trapping. That's when it was frozen and snow on the ground. I would place one where you want the blind and put the blind there beside it as soon as possible. Make sure you brush the blind in with natural stuff and make it look like part of the landscape.
Frankly it seems like a longshot for a mature buck but if it was me and it was the only option I would do it in a hearbeat. Keep us posted on how it turns out.
bowhuntr311
IowaWhitetail Addict
I aswell karre have moved bales of 6foot nature by hand. Its a bear cat, unless they are packed nice and tight and round. A few of the farms I hunt the bales look like hay stacks with twine wrapped around them.
Last year 5days before our opener I placed a popup blind next to a bale(touching), staked it, and tied some long grass to the corners. 1st night my target buck walked right past it, once he got about 50yards past it he turned and realized something was wrong and bolted into the field. Next night he strolled by no problem. Opening night, he was about to the jump the fence and have an arrow through his ribcage but he must have picked me off moving inside the blind.
If the farmer is nice enough, I would ask him to throw a few together. That has to be the best ground blind ever. Otherwise if you can push two together and put your blind in for a 3rd your in the money.
Dean
Last year 5days before our opener I placed a popup blind next to a bale(touching), staked it, and tied some long grass to the corners. 1st night my target buck walked right past it, once he got about 50yards past it he turned and realized something was wrong and bolted into the field. Next night he strolled by no problem. Opening night, he was about to the jump the fence and have an arrow through his ribcage but he must have picked me off moving inside the blind.
If the farmer is nice enough, I would ask him to throw a few together. That has to be the best ground blind ever. Otherwise if you can push two together and put your blind in for a 3rd your in the money.
Dean
SaskGuy
Active Member
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Deano....every single inch of the property I access is foot only unless I need to get a dead deer out.
I do not feel I need to move anything. I can think of 10 different bales at least that both deer walked upwind of within shooting distance last time. I was just thinking...tuck the blind RIGHT against one and hope the wind is good.
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Deano....every single inch of the property I access is foot only unless I need to get a dead deer out.
I do not feel I need to move anything. I can think of 10 different bales at least that both deer walked upwind of within shooting distance last time. I was just thinking...tuck the blind RIGHT against one and hope the wind is good.
bowhuntr311
IowaWhitetail Addict
Another idea... Would it be possible to put the blind on the back side. That way by the deer see's it you hopefully are already on full draw.
Dean
Dean
Shovelbuck
Active Member
Kaare, if you have your grass pre cut it doesnt take more than ten minutes to install. I take a weed whacker out in advance and cut the grass, then put in bundles.
As a side note, make sure the grass you cut elsewhere is native to where you take it. I've seen areas of our Platte river taken over by non native species that was brought in for duck blinds.
As a side note, make sure the grass you cut elsewhere is native to where you take it. I've seen areas of our Platte river taken over by non native species that was brought in for duck blinds.
dbltree
Super Moderator
Lot's of great ideas in this thread! I have very similer experiences as Thomas...even with the tent blind setting there for weeks, roving bucks walk by and literally jump 10 feet sideways when they come upon my blind. I have hid them in tall grass, covered them with oak branches...you name it and it's still iffy at best.
I like the straw/grass/hay blind idea that Shovel and Limb have suggested or standing it around your blind to break up the outline.
I hope it works for you and you put one of those bad boys down! /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cool.gif
I like the straw/grass/hay blind idea that Shovel and Limb have suggested or standing it around your blind to break up the outline.
I hope it works for you and you put one of those bad boys down! /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cool.gif
turtlshell
PMA Member
I agree with Jay, Kaare. There has to be several other fields you could "borrow" some fodder from to help blend your blind into the bale. Bundle up some thatch and backpack it in with the blind. If they area coming from the east and heading west, hopefully the sun will "backdrop" and blind the deer a bit.
I would try to nudge the bale you want to setup next to so you can be setup in the "fresh-earth" scent on the inside of the blind...It will help keep any unwanted snagging/crunching hay at bay and put you on solid flat ground and help to make the inside of the blind dark. PLUS, my experience is the smell may peak some curiosity.
If you know which trail they are likely to come out on, pick out the right bale for the wind direction and get to it.
Go early and set it up right.
I would try to nudge the bale you want to setup next to so you can be setup in the "fresh-earth" scent on the inside of the blind...It will help keep any unwanted snagging/crunching hay at bay and put you on solid flat ground and help to make the inside of the blind dark. PLUS, my experience is the smell may peak some curiosity.
If you know which trail they are likely to come out on, pick out the right bale for the wind direction and get to it.
Go early and set it up right.
First time in years Kaare, I got rained out tonight!!! I like hunting the rain, but its sideways here...the old Camera gear likely took a beating! Time to dry her ouyt.
having been a cut field thats been baled...I thought there would be a trail threw the timber for the tractor.
Sitting in he open "behind" a bale will prove difficult. 15 minutes to roll a couple together for a mini blind has never caused me a deer to even give a second look/.
Good Luck
having been a cut field thats been baled...I thought there would be a trail threw the timber for the tractor.
Sitting in he open "behind" a bale will prove difficult. 15 minutes to roll a couple together for a mini blind has never caused me a deer to even give a second look/.
Good Luck
SaskGuy
Active Member
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There is, the landowner however requested that I do not drive on his alfalfa so I don't want to give him reason to tell me to stay off.
I'd try your square bale and fence trick but nobody up here has squares this yr.
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There is, the landowner however requested that I do not drive on his alfalfa so I don't want to give him reason to tell me to stay off.
I'd try your square bale and fence trick but nobody up here has squares this yr.