HUNTING BLINDS

I am interested in this as well. I kill quite a few deer with a bow out of ground blinds every year and would love to get a yote with a bow off of the ground.
We leave our blinds up year round and I have seen various animal tracks and sign within five feet of the zipper. I think setting up a blind and leaving it set up lets the wildlife get accustomed to it being there.
 
I wouldn't use one of the pop up tent styles. They are too heavy, and I carry enough stuff now. I will from time to time use my turkey blind. Like this one, there are others just like it. It's easy to set up, just unroll it and stick the poles in the ground. They are just high enough to hide you while sitting on the ground. They will just hide your movement.
 
I have called in and killed 4 from blinds in the last month but the blinds are there year round. I hunt quite a bit over bait and I usually have a blind set up there but when hunting over bait my blind is usually around 200 yards from the bait.

If you are thinking of taking a portable blind and setting it up for every stand, you'll soon get tired of packing the extra weight and you will likely end up spooking nearby coyotes with the noise and motion that you make setting up the blind.
 
I have three different blinds set up at favorite hunting sites and have shot lots of yotes out of them, usually over bait. They stay set up year round so critters get used to them but are really easy to move to a new stand location in just a few minutes.
 
If you don't like the weight of a regular blind or the "motion", check out Rhino's cut & run 2 sided turkey (i mean yote) blind. It has 2 sides of a regular hub blind to give you something to set up behind and it sets up in seconds and has it's own carry bag weighing in at a hefty 6 pounds! You can get the link thru my site below, cost $100 so they are affordable also.
 
Don't want to carry a pop-up? Give this a try. Drape your ghillie jacket (or a piece of camo netting from All Predador Calls) over your shooting sticks. Makes a great, super light "blind" which helps mask your movements. I've shot lots of coyotes and bobcats from one.

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I have a blind that I set up, took 2 weeks. First I put out 4 old christmas trees facing down the creek bottom overlooking a scent rock.
Then a week later I put the blind up behind the christmas trees, used the trees to break it up a bit.
Then I staked a deer carcass down in the creek bottom near the piss rock. I now have seen 6 different coyotes at 35yds. None of which knew I was there, including the 35# female I shot last Tuesday. You need a reason for them to frequent a close distance to the blind. I also do not use a light, so the carcass is on the north side of the creek so I have good snow backdrop at night.
Just my setup. It is my first but it is working so far. I would not try and pack it in/out everytime. I leave a lawn chair in it which makes the long hours nicer.
 
Originally Posted By: LittleTony I have a blind that I set up, took 2 weeks. First I put out 4 old christmas trees facing down the creek bottom overlooking a scent rock.
Then a week later I put the blind up behind the christmas trees, used the trees to break it up a bit.
Then I staked a deer carcass down in the creek bottom near the piss rock. I now have seen 6 different coyotes at 35yds. None of which knew I was there, including the 35# female I shot last Tuesday. You need a reason for them to frequent a close distance to the blind. I also do not use a light, so the carcass is on the north side of the creek so I have good snow backdrop at night.
Just my setup. It is my first but it is working so far. I would not try and pack it in/out everytime. I leave a lawn chair in it which makes the long hours nicer.

How long do you sit in there at one time? I would move after 30-45 minutes.
 
Hehehe. That's the odd thing about me. It is more of a meditative time then hunting. I've been there 6 hours and as little as two hours. Not always seeing anything though. I have patterned a couple, and it seems like 1am, 4am, 5am for the different dogs. I am trying to see if I get any consistency out of the same ones or not.

If I had a few placed around I might move from one to another, but I know the dogs will be there every night eventually.

A trail cam works great too.
 
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