My blind is a Ardisan, from Yukon Tracks, My wife was using one of the Eastman carbon blinds that Sams Club sold last year.
I set mine up last year along a well established trail, so they would walk from behind me and pass in front and to one side. It wasn't the greatest set up, but I was kind of pressed for time, our jerk of a neighbor found out I was hunting near his field and made it a point to ride his motorcycles up to the fence and watch me hunt, so I had to move it.
Yes, I brush it in, but not too much. Just enough so that when they walk from behind, they wont sillouette you through the mesh. That's something you want to watch, because if their is enough light coming through the backside of the blind, you'll stick out like an ant on a wedding cake. I'm not really sure how much the brush helped, because the day after i moved it was when my wife killed the second deer, and it hadn't been there but about twelve hours, At my stand, I saw deer two days later and they paid no attention to it at all.
The one problem I had was with the shoot through mesh....you've really got to use a good broadhead, the snuffers I used didn't fly all that great out of it (it caused me to miss one), so I switched to a Magnus two blade, which passed through with no problems. A good sharp tipped cut on contact B/Head is a must.
I was with my wife when she killed the second deer, and was playing Mortal Kombat on the PSP with the volume turned all the way up when she told me to look out the window, there the buck stood about fifteen yards away......believe me guys, these things work!!!
Topic: The Power of the BLIND (Read 339 times)
