Deployable Back Cover

[Wirrex]

When hunting from the ground, I wear 3D camo and often find myself wishing for more back cover. Has anyone designed some type of packable back cover?

I am imagining some 3D fabric with a combination of guylines, clips to pin up, and poles or stakes. The lines could be tied to a tree trunk on one side then pulled out and staked down and pinned up in numerous ways.

Anyone make something like this? I mean a beach towel with strings could probably do the trick lol.

 

[GeoFish]

Following.
I have been picking a big tree to hug.

 

[CavePainter]

I use a usmc tarp for this. They are in the marpat camo and have grommets and snaps and loops on them. Can be had for $20 for one that isn’t waterproof anymore

 

[CavePainter]

I use a usmc tarp for this. They are in the marpat camo and have grommets and snaps and loops on them. Can be had for $20 for one that isn’t waterproof anymore

Ski poles can work as a frame, the baskets keep them from sinking in.

 

[elk yinzer]

Just google camo netting. On the rare occassion I plan to ground hunt I take that and have that available to either make an impromptu ground blind or fortify my back cover. I think mine is 4 x 8.

 

[OspreyZB]

I just use a few 1" pvc stakes and natural vegetation. Got the idea from Dave T on here.
He talks about them around the 1:30 mark

 

[Iron_llama]

I've seen infantrymen attach branches and long grasses to backpacks and such to camo themselves when laying prone. If you have a hunting chair you could use bungees or hair ties or wires or the like to lash some back camo to your seat. Maybe even put some small-diameter PVC in strategic locations to readily accept vegetation. You probably wouldn't need an impenetrable screen, just enough to break up your outline and hide head/shoulder movement.

 

[raisins]

When hunting from the ground, I wear 3D camo and often find myself wishing for more back cover. Has anyone designed some type of packable back cover?

I am imagining some 3D fabric with a combination of guylines, clips to pin up, and poles or stakes. The lines could be tied to a tree trunk on one side then pulled out and staked down and pinned up in numerous ways.

Anyone make something like this? I mean a beach towel with strings could probably do the trick lol.

Some folks use a camo umbrella for a blind. You could open it behind you.

I haven't done the umbrella thing, but I have worn a leafy suit and then carried in with me some camo fabric (wally world, etc), some twine, and 4 or so bamboo tomato stakes bungee'd together.

I often put the stakes around a tree and then use the twine and cloth to make a blind and then brush in. Even without a tree, you could still do this without a tree and it would give you back cover.

 

[Iron_llama]

Early season, I make liberal use of my ratchet pruners to make brush blinds. Jam some suitably-sized sticks in the dirt and weave conifer boughs between them to make a low screen in front and a back screen. Sometimes I'll use jute twine or wire, but I'm on public land and don't want to litter. If I have a half-dozen or so places to rotate between I can still-hunt or sit, depending on shifts in wind or deer patterns or other conditions, or just feeling antsy. There's enough blind material in the woods I don't see the need to carry fabric or rattan or whatever.