Permanent ground blind on public elk grounds. Opinions?

[RightPlace-RightTime]

Been seeing this blind pic attached and coordinates on some public land stomping grounds. Should have taken pics from this year as it's been added to. Now looks like an all out cabin. Cement and 6x6 post and beams for construction.
Opinions?

[RightPlace-RightTime]

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[RightPlace-RightTime]

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[highcountry_hunter]

Put your user name to work and be sitting in it 30 minutes before shooting light. Public land man


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[baldopepper]

Used to see a lot of privately constructed blinds on public waterfowl hunting sites.  After numerous near shootings over who got to use them, many states banned them. Don't bother me, but they can lead to some serious confrontations. Especially bad because the people involved are armed.

[ducks4days]

Used to see a lot of privately constructed blinds on public waterfowl hunting sites.  After numerous near shootings over who got to use them, many states banned them. Don't bother me, but they can lead to some serious confrontations. Especially bad because the people involved are armed.

Ive set up blinds for duck hunting in places and found other people in them. Its public, if they get there first its all theirs. The people who get confrontational about it are the same people looking for a confrontation over anything. We all know the type.

[JBG]

Fine by me as long as everyone knows its first come, first served. 

[Sakko300wsm]

Definitely doesn’t bother me any

[MeepDog]

I've got a similar issue where a guy set up a dozen ladder stands in an elk spot and never takes them down. They've been in place for years and years now almost like they're only there to try and claim the spot. Sometimes I'll climb up and sit in them. Judge me if you want to. If you left a couch on public land for years, I'd probably sit on that too if its in a good hunting spot.

[Practical Approach]

I have mixed feelings on this.  On one hand I have helped build blinds to put on public lands for duck hunting, but we would strip them down or remove them at the end of the season.  If someone beat us to them for a hunt, then so be it.  There was never any ownership in the blind until it was time to remove them at the end of the season.

On the other hand, while public land is for all of us to enjoy, I don't think it is for us to use as we please.  I don't think there is any harm in setting up some blinds using what you have on the landscape along with what you pack in, but I personally think it is best after hunting season to leave it as close to how you found it.  To some, constucted blinds on public property could be seen as an eyesore. 

[Stein]

Concrete crosses the line in my opinion.

[baldopepper]

Seems the pop up ground blinds have become a problem in some areas.  Kind of a gray area with them.  Know of a couple in our area that got left up pretty much thru the archery hunt, had feed set out.  Not sure how I would've reacted to them had  I been actually hunting, but was a little surprised they survived the hunt.  Both were quite visible from the forest service road.
 

[CP]

Seems the pop up ground blinds have become a problem in some areas.  Kind of a gray area with them.  Know of a couple in our area that got left up pretty much thru the archery hunt, had feed set out.  Not sure how I would've reacted to them had  I been actually hunting, but was a little surprised they survived the hunt.  Both were quite visible from the forest service road.
 

What's the problem?

[ducks4days]

Seems the pop up ground blinds have become a problem in some areas.  Kind of a gray area with them.  Know of a couple in our area that got left up pretty much thru the archery hunt, had feed set out.  Not sure how I would've reacted to them had  I been actually hunting, but was a little surprised they survived the hunt.  Both were quite visible from the forest service road.
 

What's the problem?

Leaving 20lbs of plastic and metal in a pile on the side of a mountain is generally considered to be a dick move

[CP]

Seems the pop up ground blinds have become a problem in some areas.  Kind of a gray area with them.  Know of a couple in our area that got left up pretty much thru the archery hunt, had feed set out.  Not sure how I would've reacted to them had  I been actually hunting, but was a little surprised they survived the hunt.  Both were quite visible from the forest service road.
 

What's the problem?

Leaving 20lbs of plastic and metal in a pile on the side of a mountain is generally considered to be a dick move

No disagreement there, if that is what is going on.