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I’m looking for opinions on good ground blinds for Trad archers. Which ground blind do you like to hunt out of and why?
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Leo,
I’ve got one of the double bull recurve blinds and it’s great as long as you can put it in place and leave it for a few weeks. If not you have to brush it in really heavy.
The only bad part to that is you stink up the area with your moving around cutting brush to cover it.
Natural ground blinds seem to work great.
Troy
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Leo,
I did alot of research/looking at blinds earlier this year, prep for turkey hunting. Ended up with a Barronette Blinds Big Mike 275, which is 80″ in height, plenty of upper limb room, BUT as with most commercial ground blinds, window height is a bit high. I got away with it by stringing a couple small bungees from the outside-blind brush loops, back through the window and hooked to the rods from the hub-based framing. With a relatively short seat I am able to shoot out of the window (I’m 5’7″) without hitting the edge (first shot from the blind went through the folded down window fabric, before I added the bungees) Windows are on all four sides and you don’t need to open them too much to have enough of an opening to shoot through. It comes with “shoot-through mesh” but I’d rather not shoot through that. For deer, gotta brush them in or at least leave them for a while. for turkeys, no problem, middle of the field, hunted it the first day and killed my first trad turkey (first trad harvest ever) 1/2 hr. into the season. Many other blinds don’t have enough height to allow room for a recurve or longbow, they are better suited to compounds. Best of Luck.
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I like to find a natural looking hide in an area elk use to cross drainages and then brush it up a little more. I leave an opening for a shooting lane. The wind direction determines when I will use them. Although we have never killed a big bull from a blind we have killed a few spikes and cows. Also we do not call from within these blinds.
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