Leaving out Pop up blinds

[dbHunterNY]

On ‎8‎/‎11‎/‎2016 at 9:23 AM, wooly said:

.......I DON'T believe that these initial set-ups will be the ideal location to kill a deer from by placing them now, and may actually do more harm than good if discovered. For the time being, they will be set in low percentage spots in high traffic areas, and used more towards gathering intel, rather than formulating an entire hunting seasons plans around them.

IMO, a blind (or stand for that matter) placed carelessly due to excitement and current conditions gives deer more time to encounter and avoid a location where something new has "popped-up" on the landscape and alter their patterns. We already know they do that with trail cams, and treestands, and any other number of changes that occur in their environment, so I like to keep my blind locations unpredictable as well to counter that.....

 

yup my blinds are usually set to observe and maybe take a doe coming into range.  pretty much on food sources easily accessed for late evening hunts.  I rarely put a blind up in a bucks bedroom.  too much going on.  i'll pick out a good spot for a lightweight hangon or mostly my climber.  I haven't been there before and they won't if I'm there until they show up.  some of my best spots you'd never know spots because there's nothing there unless I'm in the tree.

[wfmiller]

WOW! I can't believe people put them out so early! I put mine up a week before the season and it works just fine. When I first got it I put it up one day and the next morning I was hunting in it. Shot a buck out of it the first morning, he never even paid attention to it.