When hunting with the Kodiak Magnum or my Horne's Brush bow longbow I do about 80% of my hunting from the ground. I will try to put out my pop up blind when possible, but as most of you know a natural ground blind is always better than store bought. Yes, the store bought blind will keep the rain off your cranium, but the natural blind won't spook deer like the store bought one will. Here's my "on the fly" method of building a quickie.
Necessary materials are:
Roll of trapping wire, wire cutters, brush pruning shears, wire ties, limb saw, and camo cloth if you have room for it in your pack.
I try to pick 3 small to medium sized trees that for a triangle. One big tree (for my big backside to rest against) plus 2 smaller trees that form a triangle is the Holy Grail of perfect blind locations, especially if it's near the trail you want to hunt. Bonus!
I simply start by examining the tree height from the ground where I'll be parking my behind, then measure up roughly to where I can hide behind it, yet still shoot over it. Normally it will be about 18-24" depending on what I'm sitting on. I start a wrap around the first tree in the triangle then go around the next, with one full wrap around, then onto the third tree and finish it off, leaving a small entry way into the blind. This forms a triangle pattern of wire, then I cut natural cover from whatever is available, normally cedar trees (great cover scent) and I'll cut enough to over hang the cedar limbs on the wire so the game cannot see underneath or catch my movement. It may take a fair supply of cedar, pine, or whatever is in your area, but cover the wire surrounding your blind with natural materials in that area. That's the ticket to blending in because the local game doesn't spook from it. If you want to take it one step further, cover the "inside" of the blind with camo burlap or cloth, that insures that NO animal, even a turkey can see you while inside. I've killed a coyote and 2 turkey using this method. Pics below.
This is what the deer see.
Inside it looks like this.
The proof is in the pudding, just get creative but you don't have to spend a lot of time on a blind. It can be merely cutting a few saplings and shoving them into the ground to give you some cover, then sit behind it. Use your imagination, what's the worst that could happen? You got busted? LOL
Maybe you won't get busted and get your kill?
Here's one more killed from a natural blind by a Big Old Hackberry tree on a ridge that I built a small enclosure around, hunting from the ground obviously.
FirstTurkeyWithABowBradfordRecurve001 by
Mohunter68 , on Flickr
Topic: Hunting from the ground and stalking (blending in?) (Read 269 times)
