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Carelessly plopping a tent blind into a mature whitetail's domain is risky business when you don’t take the necessary precautions. You must have a strategic plan of action that revolves around a flawless approach. Whether you’re hung high into the treetops or snug into the brush ground level with a tent blind, hunting mature whitetail requires a clever performance.
The latest craze to hugging a whitetail’s core area on eye-level is using a tent blind. There are literally hundreds of makes, models, and mock-ups that discouraged hunters have stuffed in the back of their garage buried under a pyramid of flattened cardboard boxes and last week’s garbage bags. Basic hunting blinds have much in common. They are unnatural and boxy looking, flimsy, discolor, noisy, and often times lack in quality. Zippers were made famous for breaking along with hubs coming into a solid second.
Every savvy buck hunter can easily attest that mature deer are apt to spook from tent blinds. Their camouflage wrap doesn’t hide its obtrusive figure and configuration. If a tent blind isn’t placed in a spot for weeks before season, deer will avoid it like a plague. Hunting blinds form a noticeable force field for the first few weeks of placement. Deer would rather keep a safe distance from the foreign object.
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One way to mask a blind is to brush it into its surroundings to prevent deer from spooking. Many new and improved blinds offer both top and bottom loops that weave a 360-degree concealment system around the tent. They allow you to stuff corn stalks, grasses, cattails, and almost any other vegetation that surrounds your ground blind position. Every time I place a blind into the forest, I’m very keen on making sure it has background and frontal cover. I will use my nifty handsaw to zip into the bark of branches, bushes, or stalks to decorate my shooting house. It breaks up the outline and decreased the shagged edges that deer seem to key into. Buying an inexpensive ground blind requires much more work than just unzipping the carrying bag and planting it into the woods. If you are willing to pay a little more for quality and value, some blinds don’t require any brushing in at all!
My good friends, Tony and Tim Noll of Cross Plains, Wisconsin brainstormed a unique tactic that will naturally put you up close and person with deer instantly. They’ve created a hunting blind that shares the look, feel and smell of an actual round bale. Blind Ambition Bale Blinds mimic a typical round bale that farmers from across the country have sprawled in the field. The looks are enough to kill.
My favorite benefit for using blinds is that I can place them anywhere in the field and deer won’t hesitate to give it a second glance if it’s covertly hidden. They are extremely versatile and can be easily moved according to where you anticipate deer to travel coinciding with wind direction.
Most blinds are fairly waterproof and prevent you leaving the woods early from an all out rainstorm. The vast majority of blinds are also lined with black interior to prevent game from seeing you. Blinds are a necessity in my neck of the woods.
Hunters who understand the value of slipping into the confinements of a quality blind that blends into the surrounding landscape find them extremely useful. There ease-of-use and user-friendly adaptability is what increase the odds of success in the field and forest chasing whitetail deer. |