Natural ground blind pics! Anyone?

[maineac]

Looking forward to setting up more ground blinds this next year.  Hopefully I'll get to use them when season comes around.

[highpoint forge]

From inside my last sagebrush hut.......I'm standing up in the first pic.....views are from left to right as I sat inside.

 


   

   

   

   

[Ken Babicky]

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From Charlie Lamb:

This spot was a sweetheart for elk and deer in Western Wyoming. Use of natural cover and a Torges tree seat.
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That Torges tree seat is one of the most usefull items I have. I throw it over my shoulder/neck almost every time I go hunting, whether sitting or still hunting. About the only time I don't take it is when I know I'm headed to a elevated tree stand.

[Kris]

Nice pics everyone!  Looks like fun!

Kris

[Lin Rhea]

Gun season will be over in a couple days and Wyatt and I are planning on trying for some of the late season deer near the house.

The Timber Company has butchered the woods right in front of my house and property. I hate that, but we'll try to make lemonade. With it opened up I can sit and watch deer moving to and from their bedding/feeding areas and locate their trails by just watching. I've narrowed it down to some good travel trails where there is a bottle neck through the new cut. Late in the evening, they filter accross the opening somewhat scattered out, but a couple of routes are predictable.  

I figure it's time for some ground blinds. That way Wyatt can hunt it without me being with him or we can both hunt if the wind is right.

Here are pics of the two we built. We might build another if we see the need. We used the scraps that they left behind for materials.  Lin

This Wyatt in one taken from deer's eye level. You can see how they cleared the timber.
   

Here is me in the other. We are not in our hunting duds, so maybe they wont see us this easy.
 

[Crash]

I have great respect for those of you who kill game with a stickbow from the ground.  I have yet do it as I feel naked on the ground.  I guess I should spend more time there, but just love the view from above.

[Covey]

When everything is right, theres nothing like being on the ground! Thanks' for the pics fellas! Jason

[Lin Rhea]

The blinds in my pics are about 75 yards apart. This evening I saw 4 does walk between the blinds. The only problem is that I was not in one of the blinds but just past them about 50 yards well out of range. Lin

[highcountry]

Cool country you guys hunt in. Some really neat trees and forest. Charlie, that white oak is huge!I really like this post.

[Red Tailed Hawk]

Some great blinds

[mb bowman]

TTT

[Mitch-In-NJ]

Here is one from this year.  It's on the edge of a field and about 2 and a half feet below the field.  There is alos a little creek that runs behind it.

View from deer's perspective.
 

From the creek.
 
 

From inside facing field.
 

My buddy inside.
 
 

I cut shooting lanes into it but left it as tall as I could.  The green went down as time went on but because the branches were cut with them still on most didn't fall off.  I had to add a little more to it was it settled during the season but I sure saw a lot of deer in it.

I missed one doe and killed another from this spot.  Unfortunately the only bucks I saw were on the other side of the creek, on land I don't have access to hunt.

[Steve Chappell]

There are some very nice ground set ups posted. It has motivated me to get back on the ground and hunt.

[LimBender]

Great pics.  I feel inspired for next year. David Mitchell, I tend to agree on back cover being critical.  I haven't hunted much from the ground, but I've had several deer encounters walking and as long as I was perfectly still with decent camo, the right wind, and there was brush immediately behind me, the deer didn't seem to notice even at close range.

I also saw that mil surplus camo netting in some of the pics, and that stuff works great as fill in.  Probably all of you already know, but anything solid or mostly solid (even if a camo pattern) will attract attention.  But that stuff works!

[ChaserMI]

Great ideas and great pictures.  I just finished reading G. Fred Asbell's ground hunting book.  I really liked the chapter about fixed and mobile ground blinds.  These pictures and ideas make those ideas come to life.  Thanks for sharing guys.

[highpoint forge]

POSTED AGAIN......later in the season.

I sat down inside this "circle" of broomweed with a slit to shoot though from a slightly elevated position in relation to the feeder and ground. Each use I move the broomweed around a tad to change the shooting lanes. This is basically a deer highway intersection and a property line intersection. There's a nice sinkhole behind that feeder always full of fresh water too. Looks to have been created where animals were slipping under the highfence.

It's a DEADLY spot, seemingly no matter how much I'm there.

     

     

     

     

[highpoint forge]

Better view....

 

 

 

 

[highpoint forge]

Here's what I wear in in it...

Ghillie is invisible:
   

Looking at blind and me hiding in ghillie:
   

Standing in blind with Forest Optifade:
   

Optifade Open Country:
   

[Hopewell Tom]

"Become the Tree". Good one. I've got just the spot for a natural ground blind and this thread is all the encouragement I need. About 100 yards behind the house, with no trees big enough to get into yet. Early morning movement, so a few hours before work. I wasn't sure if it would work, now I'll get a chance to find out. IN OCTOBER! Oh well, something to look forward to...

[Covey]

Thank's for all the help fella's!    Jason