Blinds & turkeys

Blinds are a great tool to have if you hunt with young hunters or inexperienced hunters or old hunters who need out of the elements for comfort. No worries about having to set it up weeks before the hunt, longest I’ve set mine up prior to hunt is the day before but that’s just for convenience, no issues setting it up that morning in the dark. I personally love to plunk my butt down at the base of a tree out in the open but I hunt with several people who prefer sitting in the blind. If that gets them out more I’m willing to sit along with them. In reality my blind only gets used a couple of times a year but I wouldn’t want to be without it.

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Originally Posted by MarkM

I have had a hen walk right beside my blind with its wing brushing up against it. Haven't had any bad experience while using one other than getting to my spot only to find the wind has yanked it from its pegs and cartwheeled down the field. This has happened more than once and no matter how much I stake it down the heavy gusts of wind manage to pick it up. I now try to tie one end to a bit of brush or branches if the option is there.

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Two tips:
1) Instead of tent pegs at the corners, use corkscrew dog tether stakes. Get them cheap at the dollar store and spray them flat black.
2) If your blind's design allows it, leave it in place but collapse it flat and and put a stone on top. Just pop it up each time you're back.

I set two pop ups on the home farm for bad weather or when the kids want to hunt. We never used them and the weather destroyed them.
I don't like being in a blind. Just don't feel right to me for turkey hunting. We do have a permanent shooting house for deer hunting in December.

I use pop up blinds occasionally, they work, they dont bother the turkeys where im at, and what i do to my blinds helps for deer hunting, dont know if it helps with turkey hunting though, i zip my windows up when i buy a blind, i spray paint the window coverings black, so they will always look the same, opened or closed, black, when i leave my blind for the day, i close the windows, they still look like they are open, black

bdog, i don't know if that works, but I like the idea. I have gone by blinds when windows closed than again when open and I really notice.

This years newest blind from Primos..no poles...7 sec to set up....180 degree visibility...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...ature=emb_logo

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Originally Posted by MikePal

This years newest blind from Primos..no poles...7 sec to set up....180 degree visibility...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=60&v=DbCk4BJ4SV4&feature=emb_l ogo

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That looks like an awesome blind!

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now that is quite the blind. Expensive but if i had the money that be the blind I'd buy. Wonder how well they stand up to the weather and how long they last.

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Originally Posted by sabmgb

now that is quite the blind. Expensive but if i had the money that be the blind I'd buy. Wonder how well they stand up to the weather and how long they last.

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The material is the only concern for me, how well does it hold up in our Canadian climate.