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slowwalker
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Ground blind for blacktail
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Looking for info on anyone that has used a ground blind for hunting blacktail in western wa. Any and all info welcomed good or bad.size of the blind and also height. modern riffle and blind would be used by one hunter plus gear. Thank you
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Re: Ground blind for blacktail
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April 26, 2025, 02:20:47 PM »
I had an Ameristep Care Taker for a while. Very good blind, comfortable and mostly watertight. I got the idea from the WDFW. I hunted a spot where they provided the blind and this was the model provided.
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Re: Ground blind for blacktail
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April 26, 2025, 05:52:16 PM »
They work great, especially with young kids. I’ve seen them used a lot on bait sites, will definitely be interesting to see how many people change up their tactics with the bait ban. I set mine up for 5-7 days in areas where I know there is traffic, the deer seem to adjust to them pretty quickly.
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Re: Ground blind for blacktail
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April 26, 2025, 08:42:23 PM »
Never used for deer ,but muzzy elk they worked.
Brush them in real good. If modern season I would put the orange nearby and behind it.
I have had hunters stand right in front of blinds and talk.
Here my buddy next to a blind.
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Re: Ground blind for blacktail
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April 27, 2025, 07:36:10 AM »
Should work fine but I won't leave my ground blinds out on the west side, elk are nosey and like to tear up things and too many thieves. I'd build a blind out of limbs/brush if it were me. A blind typically needs a week+ for the animals to adapt.
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Re: Ground blind for blacktail
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April 27, 2025, 12:22:56 PM »
Again no experience with deer.
But an elk hunt for muzzy is like 7-10 days. I am not driving four to six hours to put out a blind so elk can get use to it. We get to camp three days before put two or three blinds out.
If elk are in the area the blinds don’t bother them at all in my opinion. I do use a sent elimination spray and brush well. We have killed three or four elk out of blinds.
One year my buddy fell asleep in his and woke up to it shaking. Bull passing by got in the tie downs.
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Re: Ground blind for blacktail
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April 27, 2025, 01:56:43 PM »
I don’t know how helpful it would be for rifle and how I hunt, but game changer for archery if you spend the time in the offseason. It took me a couple years to learn a lot of little secrets about how and where to set it up for best success. I shot the buck in my profile pic from a blind.
Now that we can’t use any bait I’m not sure I’ll continue with one.
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Re: Ground blind for blacktail
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April 27, 2025, 07:45:36 PM »
Doesn’t work. Sitting in a ground blind is a waste of time that you could use for hunting. In addition, it is a boring way to hunt anything. A guy claims that he killed this Coastal WA blacktail from a ground blind but he is bound to be lying. He wants to keep his real hunting method a secret. Don't do it.
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Re: Ground blind for blacktail
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April 30, 2025, 09:13:13 AM »
Sitting up against a tree is my kind of ground blind. Works great. Very mobile.
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Re: Ground blind for blacktail
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June 09, 2025, 10:09:34 AM »
Late to the party, but I hunted a friends property a number of years ago and he sent me to his blind. He gave me the direction the deer would travel and a time frame they’d come through that morning and sure enough a buck walked just like he said. Unfortunately for me it was my first year bow hunting and I learned some valuable information about drawing first then stopping the deer.
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Re: Ground blind for blacktail
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June 09, 2025, 12:26:20 PM »
I've used them with success when I didn't have a good tree stand setup to target a buck I was after. I much prefer to be in trees to hopefully control my scent better.
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