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How To Dress For Ground Blind Hunting
Don't make the mistake of wearing blaze orange or snow camo once inside your blind! Dress in black and make sure your hands and face are covered so that you blend in with the shadows and dark inside walls of the blind. It's amazing how well animals can see into blinds and many hunters don't realize that they didn't spook from the blind itself, but from seeing hunters move. Remember to check your local gun hunting regulations and apply the appropriate amount of blaze orange to the outside of your blind prior to hunting.
Always be sure to hunt food sources in the evenings. This is when deer and turkey are filtering to the fields, bait piles or feeder. Morning is never recommended for a food source because it carries the highest percentage for you to spook game as animals will feed all night and stay very close to the food source, once spooked they are sure to remember. The outcome is always the same, over time you see less and less animals especially deer. The best field setup is on a corner just a few feet inside the brush line so you can see along your left and right edges as animals poke out to enter the field. Then obviously be sure to trim brush so you can look out over the entire landscape. This method works great for standing corn while deer hunting with a ground blind. It seems I never can find a good tree that allows me to look in both directions. That's been the key to our success in using a portable hunting blind, you can make it fit just about anywhere.
Where To Setup For Ground Blind Hunting In The Morning
The best morning ground blind setups in any part of the hunting season tend to be bottlenecks from food sources to bedding areas. The beauty of using a quality ground blind is that some of the best of these deer funnels occur where good, concealed tree stand sites do not exist. Brushy fence lines are top spots and can be easy to see the travel patterns by the deposits of animal hair on the wire where they jump the fence.
Also points of land protruding into a field where deer will use these to exit while traveling to their bedding sites. Always be sure of your route to your hunting blind and take the
least intrusive path as not to spook game in the field. Most of the time this is not the quickest route to your blind location but you will quickly see it is the most productive.
How To Leave A Field Undetected From A Ground Blind
Don't overlook one huge mistake most people make with hunting fields. It is the difficulty in leaving the blind or any stand without being busted. If traveling through the woods it usually is not a big deal. But if you need to walk a tree line cutting your trail to scent check if you have arrived yet before entering the field. This is by far the best method though sometimes not the easiest. I use to have my wife come out in the truck and drive right to my blind. Yep you are saying WHAT (you will want to ask a friend if your wife or girlfriend is not a hunter) but think about it, when deer see a vehicle coming they associate that with a limited danger presence and something coming and going in a matter of minutes and that hardly ever is associated with being a predator.
Another good way is a buddy coming with a four wheeler the same way as with a truck, they hear it coming and leaving. But if they hear you drive in and park they are smart enough to know that you haven't left and will not show until after dark. This method works really well with a bait pile as you continually drive in and dump corn and then drive out. They start to associate the ATV or UTV with food and as soon as you leave they appear. So have a buddy drive in drop you and then leave to return after you have harvested an animal to pick you up. This method works so well with hogs that you will usually have one down within 15 minutes after being dropped off.