Texas Hunting Forum: Ground Blind hunting

Just from my experience, if you can get a ground blind set up in a good location, and set it up several days/weeks or months ahead of time, the critters get use to it and pay no attention to it, windows opened or closed.

As far as being scented out, I have rarely seen deer in the parts of Texas I have hunted in react to human scent in any manner.

I am a firm believer in the concept that deer in Texas are so surrounded in an environment that is saturated with human scents and sounds, so they do not really pay attention to it most of the time.

I have set up a ground blind one day, and go back 2 days later and deer tracks were all around it, up to and including signs of where they had came up and smelled of it.

On this years javelina hunts in April, OFBHWG brought a large pop-up blind out to the ranch and he and HunterTed set the thing up in a clump of mesquites, and one day when HT was hunting from it, a white tail buck came up to the blind and stuck its nose in the window.

Not meaning, or trying to sound egotistical or that I am bragging, but hunting whitetail deer is not a challenge to me anymore.

Since I don't actual try to buck hunt, and since I am usually carrying what some would call artillery field pieces, any deer I can get the crosshairs on at 0 to 300 yards, I am pretty confident on ventilating it.

No, it is not a challenge, it is a case of wanting to be as low impact as possible and getting myself set up in a situation for a clean one shot kill.

Ground blinds are more stable, they will usually keep you warmer and dryer than an elevated stand, I have found them less noisy, because even though I don't believe that Texas white tails rely on their nose that much, they do pay attention to odd loud squeaks/creaks/pops.

Also, with few exceptions, most elevated blinds are built with the first step of the ladder 18 to 24 inches or more in some cases off the ground and then the next step is a minimum of 16 inches above that.

The elevated blinds I have used and did like, were ones that used the spacing of a regular ladder for the steps up into it.

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