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Ground blinds

I made a set up like that with a roll of material off scamazon and painted driveway stakes from Menards. I was trying to cover movement with the boys. The last set up we tried we got busted. I thought It was a good set up. But I think she circled in down wind first and knew something was up.
I'm convinced it would work if you can have it set up for a while. But if your trying to be mobile with it, I think you need to have enough brush in front to blend it. Else it looks to much out of place. If your gonna go thru all that just brush your self in.
 
@Red Beard probably turkey. But wouldn’t mind trying for deer too,

In laws keep asking me what I want for Christmas… trying to find something useful lol
 
I buy the leaf cut camo at fleet farm. I think 3'x10'. Then get 3, fiberglass 4' stakes for electrical fence. Ones with a small step to use your foot to push until ground. Zip ties to attach netting to stakes. I hAve used this style for 15 years now and it does work great. When attaching to stakes I don't have the end seam of the material at the top of the stake but rolled over so the material when stretched tight isn't an unnatural straight line but leaf cut.
Roll that up and put a bungee on it for transport.
Few colors to choose from but i find lighter the better. Grab some natural sticks, brush, weeds, corn stalk, whatever and put it up against it for more blending in or in the netting to create higher cover. Honestly, have had deer within feet of me.

I saw potential in the one you linked but it really is pure garbage. That's where mine ended up. I liked the idea of folding poles for transport.
 
And in frozen ground I used to bring a hatchet. One swing to create a hole you can shove that stake in enough to hold, hopefully.
Bugger for late season but can build many and keep them out all year if on private too.
 
@bigcat93 between the two I would pick the netting set up. Imo, it's easier to blend into the landscape with just a little grass/weeds/vines or a little brush for deer hunting. For turkeys just set it up and hunt, they dont seem to pay near as much attention as deer do to new blinds.
 
I'm not a fan of ground blinds for deer. I'm not saying they don't work, but in my area you're better off using available cover with the least amount of altering the surroundings.

Whatever you want to use for turkeys is entirely up to the individual. Turkeys are horribly stupid!!! :rolleyes:
* Their hearing is 7x better than ours.
* Their eyesight is 10x better than ours, it's in color, plus they have 270 degree radius of sight.
* They can run 15 mph.
* They can fly 55 mph.
* They can be airborne in 3 tenths of a second.
However, they have a brain the size of a walnut operating all of this sensory perception. o_O
In comparison, it would be like putting an average man in a F-18 and telling him to fly it. He might figure out how to start it and might even get it to move down the run way, but if he ever actually got it off of the ground, he would certainly crash.

Year after year, I'll setup a full sized ground blind, along the edge of a field and beside a woods. It wasn't there yesterday and it sticks out like a rat turd in a sugar bowl. However, there are 2 hens and a jake decoy that are only 12 yards away from the blind and even further out into the field and yet the turkeys will walk right out to the decoys from the cover and protection of the woods and get shot. :)
You'll never see a mature deer do that same thing, under the same circumstances.
 
Went with the ameristep hub blind, similar to the cabelas one but has “leafy cutouts” and shorter height profile since I’m shooting w bow.

Packs up decent but is little heavy - nonetheless for $25 excited to try it on some turkeys
 
I never cared for the closed in feeling of a bling and just use a Leafy suit and natural cover. The one blind I use is a medium size Ghost blind, it blends in everywhere. It’s six panel and not too tall so it’s easy to carry. I mostly use it in cold windy weather but always with snow on the ground. With snow on the ground I blend right in instead of looking like a dark blob. It works great on field edges where there are no trees. No matter what the surroundings are I blend in.
 
I never cared for the closed in feeling of a bling and just use a Leafy suit and natural cover. The one blind I use is a medium size Ghost blind, it blends in everywhere. It’s six panel and not too tall so it’s easy to carry. I mostly use it in cold windy weather but always with snow on the ground. With snow on the ground I blend right in instead of looking like a dark blob. It works great on field edges where there are no trees. No matter what the surroundings are I blend
bigcat93 said:
Went with the ameristep hub blind, similar to the cabelas one but has “leafy cutouts” and shorter height profile since I’m shooting w bow.

Packs up decent but is little heavy - nonetheless for $25 excited to try it on some turkeys
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I also have a small Ameristep hub blind, it’s called a Crossbones blind made for crossbows, but I have no issues using my compound in it. Being small it’s easy to quickly brush in and doesn’t weigh much. It’s great for hunting the foulest weather, but I no longer have to do that.
 
bigcat93 said:
Anyone have some good rec’s on this style of blind? Or similar?

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I've sat in similar and had deer near me. You can make the same or better with 4 tomato stakes bungeed together to make a walking stick, a roll of twine, and a large piece of camo cloth sold at box stores for this purpose. I would also wear a leafy suit top.
 
I have successfully killed a doe with this and a compound bow sitting against a tree with a pad on the ground. But I'm going with a Ghost Blind next season. Its heavier but I think it is more effective because I do think any ground setups do take time for the deer to get use to them do so 'run and gun' style is not regular blinds friendly.

 
Turkey's pay no attention to the ground blinds unless you set them up and they reflect light like a mirror depending on the surface. Try to set them up in the shade or at least where the front is opposite the sun so they don't reflect light. Mine is a cheap old Ameristep Dog House Blind that's got to be 20 years old now. I pack it in the morning and take it down when done. It fits great on the Pac-Seat.

For deer, you have to set them up and brush them in ahead of time OR really try to set them up in such a way that the deer will not be able to make them out. I've gone in early before and set up a ground blind and had bucks walk by but they were totally out of my effective bow range. Firearm or crossbow I probably could have sealed the deal. I was about 35-40 yards off a known travel way. I probably could have been just as effective in a ghillie suit in those scenarios but who knows. Sometimes we move and don't even realize it.

I did upgrade to a TideWe 270 blind on sale with an extra discount from a youtube channel I watch so I'll try that out this spring for Turkey.
 
I went with the ameristep ones it has leafy cutout, I can shooot over it when in my turkey chair and folds up easy and decently light
 
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