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Black Moshannon:
Does anyone have a recommendation for a manufactured blind? I’m looking for something to take into public land to quickly set up and take down, and something I can draw my bow in or behind. I was considering just sitting on a small chair or bucket with a camo net setup in front of me but if someone knows of or uses a decent blind brand that just pops up I would pay for the convenience of that. I have brush blinds set up on my property and prefer that to manufactured but need something quick n easy for state land (plus they have rules about cutting brush). I would go with a climber stand but I’m not comfortable in a tree

PaSteve:
Whitetails are hard to trick with pop-up blinds. They notice any little changes to their environment especially on public land that gets a lot of pressure. Unless it's brushed in it sticks out like a sore thumb to whitetails. With that said I know a few guys that have had success with Hidden Hunter Blinds. They're not cheap and I'm not sure if they're still being manufactured. Blinds with a flat-type roof seem to alert deer quicker so it's important to try and somehow brush in the roofline. Even some fake branches from a craft store pinned to the roof can help.
    If you ask me I think you'd have better success sitting still in a "comfortable" chair with a ghillie suit. If you're still and get the wind right a ghillie works great. Much better than a pop-up unless the pop-up is in place for at least a week or two and brushed in. I use a homemade ghillie and a Redneck Blind chair and have had deer as close as a few yards that never knew I was there. Getting off a shot is a totally different obstacle. Good luck. I hope whatever you choose to do brings you success.

Black Moshannon:
Ok, I’m going to go with climber stand on state land and brush blinds with folding chair on my property

Eric Krewson:
If I find a good pinch point for a ground blind, I take some clippers and a little string and throw up a quickie blind out of leafy saplings. These blinds work very well, I leave some holes to shoot through and make a wall of vegetation. This blind is on a public hunting area but in a location I found that everyone had overlooked, the white oak hollow was hidden in a sea of planted pines about 20' tall.

Here is one in a natural funnel where a hollow pinched down from 50 yards wide to 15 yards wide.



This buck walked through the funnel and by the above pictured blind; I shot him at 7 yards with my osage self bow.





 

Black Moshannon:
That’s a nice setup, nice buck. That is a lot like my blinds I’ve set up on my land, I put in a food plot in front of one of them

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