Blinds & turkeys

[JMatthews]

I have had Toms drumming with their wing tips brushing against the blind. I usually set up my blinds a week or so before the season. I take quite a few new hunters out and I find the blind hides people better if they have problems sitting still. It is also very comfortable to be in a blind with a comfortable chair. A blind allows me to go out in any weather. I have shot quite a few turkeys from a blind during raining days.

[tom gobble]

I just use the die cut leaf sheet blind thats attached to ground poles. It's eight feet long and stands I believe 30 inches. Its the perfect hight to conceal your movement but gives you the freedom to run and gun. The turkeys never notice it , at least the birds I shot didn't LOL

[rick_iles]

I’ve had an Ameristep Doghouse for almost 20 years. It’s very easy and quiet to set up and packs up into its own backpack. I use it early season and when I have new hunters. The side windows are getting ratty, from guys( and girls) not raising their gun up enough before they shoot! All hold good memories of hunts over the years.
Several times I have put it up right under roost trees (not on purpose) and it’s so quiet the birds didn’t know I was there....but my favourite is full camo, sitting in the shadows against a tree...

[genec]

Blinds don’t bother them, it’s movement that alerts them. If the blind is a good solid hub type it seems invisible to them.
I will put a hub out for the season, but also use a cameo screen in other spots, and even just sit still in full cameo. As long as you don’t move at all they ignore you. Once while lying in cameo on a dirt pile I had a hen spend 5 minutes alternating between trying to peck the orange bead off the front of my shotgun and sticking her head IN the barrel to see what was in it! I also have had a hen walk over my legs while sitting against a tree w my legs stuck straight out, and a gobbler walk right by me while I’m standing still w my gun in one hand and my folding seat in the other hand. He only made it 20 more yards!!

[pinepointer]

I’ve had an Ameristep Doghouse for almost 20 years. It’s very easy and quiet to set up and packs up into its own backpack. I use it early season and when I have new hunters. The side windows are getting ratty, from guys( and girls) not raising their gun up enough before they shoot! All hold good memories of hunts over the years.
Several times I have put it up right under roost trees (not on purpose) and it’s so quiet the birds didn’t know I was there....but my favourite is full camo, sitting in the shadows against a tree...

This may be foolish question but do folks shoot through the window screening or is the bottom of the screen left unzipped so the barrel can be poked outside of the blind before shooting?

[genec]

I always leave one window open to shoot from, and keep the rest mostly or completely closed so they don't see you silhouetted in there.

[MikePal]

This may be foolish question but do folks shoot through the window screening

Souvenirs of past hunts....

[rick_iles]

This may be foolish question but do folks shoot through the window screening or is the bottom of the screen left unzipped so the barrel can be poked outside of the blind before shooting?

I don’t keep the screen in. We all use scoped guns. When you pull up to shoot, you have to make sure the muzzle is outside the window. You can’t tell through the scope if it’s outside. Some have forgotten that in the excitement ! I usually watch for that, and tell the shooter to get the muzzle past the window edge.....especially after the first hit....

[rick_iles]

I always leave one window open to shoot from, and keep the rest mostly or completely closed so they don't see you silhouetted in there.

Same here. The window that is open, is only open about half...

[Deer Hunter]

Souvenirs of past hunts....

Haha. My daughter pulled one like that also with her first Turkey. She bought me the Blind for my birthday, so I let it pass.