Popup blinds

[kirk1978]

Got a couple blinds to toss out when the kid goes hunting (so she can stay a little warmer with the buddy heater). How early do you set them out so they get use to them?

Ive only sat in a stand so its new territory for us.

 

[retrieverman]

Got a couple blinds to toss out when the kid goes hunting (so she can stay a little warmer with the buddy heater). How early do you set them out so they get use to them?

Ive only sat in a stand so its new territory for us.

Kind of depends on how well you camouflage it.

 

[Dorkus]

I put mine out no later than a month before season. This is very likely overkill but it gives time for the deer to get used to it. My first one went out last weekend and the others in the next few weeks.

The latest I would do it is two weeks before season so it isn't a surprise to the animals.

 

[retrieverman]

I see a lot of pictures of people‘s set ups on other message boards, and evidently a lot of them don’t even try to make their blind inconspicuous.
I put this ground blind out the day before I killed my biggest buck ever in 2020, but I put a lot of effort into making it as invisible as possible.

 

[Okie4570]

Mine sit out in the wide open with nothing around it usually. Usually put them out about a month before. I've got cams at every blind, they don't pay any attention to them imo. I did start painting a horizontal black line across so that it looks like the window is pulled down even when it's not that way it looks the same whether I'm in it or not.

 

[Oklahomabassin]

I can't tell you how many times I have put up pop up blinds a week before youth weekend and had every kid harvest their first deer within 4 sits.

They are big pop up blinds so that the youth/guardian/volunteer and sometimes a photographer or sibling can sit inside. I do try to not put the blinds in the travelway of the deer. I do try to put them where they have kind of backdrop behind them such as a big cedar tree, woods, hill etc so they aren't silhouted. If possible where they will be in the shade of the evening sun because of the heat of early season.

 

[dennishoddy]

Gave up on them. Zero trees in my area. Had turkeys walk within feet of them while inside, but mine were typically found a half mile or so away in a creek bottom after deer season, blown there by the high winds with the stakes and guy ropes still at the original location. Wind would tear them up, and they weren’t the cheap ones either.

 

[Dorkus]

I went out and snapped a photo of one of mine yesterday, It was cool (for August) so I put the rest of them out. It is not the best cover but we have sure shot a lot of deer out of it.

 

[retrieverman]

I went out and snapped a photo of one of mine yesterday, It was cool (for August) so I put the rest of them out. It is not the best cover but we have sure shot a lot of deer out of it.

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That looks great!!!

 

[Bocephus123]

I went out and snapped a photo of one of mine yesterday, It was cool (for August) so I put the rest of them out. It is not the best cover but we have sure shot a lot of deer out of it.

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Not bad