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bowandarrow473:
I'm getting ready to start my selfbow hunting season for deer in SC and was wondering. How do you guys make brush blinds? I've made them before but have always wondered if there were any other/better ways to make them. I generally just make large box like structure out of saplings and weave brush and sticks into the structure. What do you guys do?

osage outlaw:
I gather brush from the surrounding areas.  Cedar trees are great for building blinds. 

Eric Krewson:
I build a variety, some out of dead logs and branches, some out of brush with the leaves still on.

The log blinds are somewhat permanent, the brush blinds may stay in the same place but have to be replenished every time I use one.  I like to cut beech branches with the leaves on because the leaves will stay on all winter even after they are dead. I pick a spot that has some natural vegetation to weave my cut branches through.

I killed my biggest buck ever out of this blind, the front is solid but I have  holes cut to shoot through.



The blind fooled this guy for an 8 yard shot;

Aaron H:
I also gather from surrounding areas, I try to be picky about what I grab and where I grab it from.  By doing this, I can try to manipulate in which direction I would like the deer to pass by my blind.

PEARL DRUMS:
Good timing. I was at one of my haunts 3 days ago. A big box elder had fallen along the edge of the beans near a rock pile blind I already sit in. Well, I broke off at least 2 dozen branches that had dead leaves clinging. When a tree falls over green and then dies, the leaves stick. When the leaves turn on their own, they will not stick. Anywho, I took all those branches and stuffed them into the ground 3-4" deep all around my rock blind. Now I have 4' high branch walls. Ill break a few shooting holes out next time. Ground hunting is relaxing and fun for me.

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