Hunting blind or stand for traditional

[Mclineman]

I’ve recently started shooting a long bow. What type of stand or blind do you guys use for a 62” bow. I’ve been looking at the T100 tripod from millennium. Any suggestions would be appreciative.

[Ronnie Newell]

Big Mike pop ups are great.

2 man lean-ons are good too. Plenty of room for all your (stuff).

Tripods - not so good. Hard to hide. Seen them fall over too.

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[Wudstix]

Tuck your tripod in against a tree and secure it.  Pop-up blinds are OK, but make sure you get it big enough.  Ladders are good.  Stool at base of tree or brush pile is also good.  All my bows except one are 60".

[Petrichor]

Viper mini sd. But been doing a lot of stalking these days.

[TooManyHobbies]

Natural blinds, hang-ons and ladder stands. I only used my climber once this season and after many years, realized it's a pain in the butt. I've been spending a lot of time on the ground in makeshift blinds this year and having a blast.....not killing anything, but having a blast. Shooting my 68" longbow.

[Bisch]

If you are looking for an enclosed ground blind, look up Krivoman Outdoors! Best enclosed ground blinds I have ever hunted out of. If looking for treestands, look at Woodsey Too. They are designed for crooked a**ed Texas oak trees!

Bisch

[GCook]

I hunt ladder stands, tripod stands, pop up blinds, shell style blinds including Krivoman.  Just depends on what is called for.

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[Mclineman]

I’m really leaning toward natural ground blinds.

[kevsuperg]

I have a hard time sitting for hours on end in one spot, feels more like waiting then hunting.
 Don't like packing a stand and sticks or lugging a blind around with me .
 I prefer natural blinds esp. ones I don't have to do anything to.
 Come down from the trees and out of the pop ups, it'll make you a better hunter imho
 

[SlowBowKing]

This year I took a length of rusted chicken wire I had laying around, wrapped it around a few saplings, and brushed it in. Works great! I’ll be doing LOTS more of this in the future. Cheap, easy set up, and blends well.

[gregg dudley]

What type of property are you hunting?  On larger properties with good deer populations, either choice is a good one.  If you have smaller properties with low deer numbers, hunting off the ground is usually not a good option.  Stand selection is as much about not educating deer that you don't plan to shoot as it is about killing deer. 

[CovertHunter55]

Guys  , how much time before hunting is ok to install blind?

[Captain*Kirk]

Guys  , how much time before hunting is ok to install blind?

The longer it's there, the better. It takes deer several weeks to lower their guard when the topography changes...mature bucks, sometimes longer.

[CovertHunter55]

In that case is better for me to build naturall blind 👍🏻

[RJonesRCRV]

A Torges Tree Seat is pretty useful, and can be made for maybe $10.  Just get a good butt pad and find a tree that doesnt have old barbed wire sticking out of it (thats just what i heard, of course...), and sit still if you dont have much cover.  I just lay my head back against the tree and listen, lock my eyes on different spots for a minute so Im not moving too much, and my peripheral vision can catch movement pretty well.  Havent killed any deer yet but i've been getting closer.

[Bill Turner]

Where I have hunted in Texas the trees, mostly mesquites, were not very tall. I had great success with short aluminum  tripods before the leaves fell off the mesquites. They also worked great if you could wedge the stand into a big old cedar. A 6 to 7 ft. Tripod is a handy thing to own in Texas just hard to find. I bought my 2 from Academy Sports 25 years ago.

[Stumpkiller]

Initially I set myself the task that I would only hunt on foot.  No blind or stand.  Took me five years to get a whitetail buck.

My favorite recurve is a 62" Browning Explorer.  I have had many successes from a chain-on elevated stand at a spot on my property where three trails cross.  I placed the stand in a red maple that spreads out to five sub-trunks right where I sit/stand.  Breaks up my outline very well. 

This year I am hunting from a ladder stand at about 12 ft in a white pine.  Again it's a travel route for deer.  Have seen many does but no antlers; though it had produced in the past. 

I get in before daylight.  Sit for three hours, then climb down and still-hunt.  Two hours before sunset I go back to the stand (slowly - hunting all the while) and sit until sunset.  Some years I surprise a deer while still hunting; but most often it is the last 15 minutes of shooting time before sunset that has been the right time. 

Though that unlucky 11:00am to noon buck has happened often enough that I ALWAYS move like I am hunting and a deer may oblige.  That first buck I took on foot was just after I finished a PB&J sandwich at lunchtime.  Be hunting whenever you are in the woods.  Not walking or slogging around with some other spot in mind.

[J-dog]

Guys  , how much time before hunting is ok to install blind?

Set up ground blind mid day one day hunted it next morning killed a spike, they don't care.

Can't leave them up long on this property anywhere as the Bears will DESTROY them;

[GCook]

Guys  , how much time before hunting is ok to install blind?

Set up ground blind mid day one day hunted it next morning killed a spike, they don't care.

Can't leave them up long on this property anywhere as the Bears will DESTROY them;

Yikes!
Down here cows will tear them up.  We put fence panels around ours if they are left up. 

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[Iowabowhunter]

I recently picked up an XOP Vanish Elite, haven't had a chance to hunt from it using trad gear but can't forsee it being an issue.

I do have a Double Bull Double Wide ground blind that I think I can use a trad bow from, it's awfully tall at the top!