From: onesharpbroadhead
Date: 13-Nov-09
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The last two seasons I have been doing a lot more hunting out of my Double Bull Ground Blind and I have noticed that the deer do not seem to smell me no matter which way the wind is blowing - has anyone else noticed this?
The last two evenings the wind was totally wrong - blowing my scent right over where the deer usually come - but I thought I would hunt anyhow and hope that they come from the other direction and maybe still get a shot - but they came directly down wind of me and did not smell me - either day.
Is this a fluke - or do these blinds contain your scent that well?
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From: Rick Barbee
Date: 13-Nov-09
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Yep,
I noticed it right off when I started using them.
As long as you manage which windows you have open so as to restrict the amount of wind passing through the blind, it will drastically cut down on the amount of smell that gets from you to the animals.
I have killed lots of animals straight down wind of me when hunting from the DB style blinds.
Another thing that helps is to kick dirt up around the bottom on the inside, which stops air flow from that area.
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From: KAZ
Date: 13-Nov-09
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Onesharp, I've noticed the same thing, not a fluke. However, I've not tried my Double Bull yet with my 60" widow. I've always used it for hunting with my kids during youth season, turkey hunting, and an occasional Black-Powder Deer Hunt. How well can you guys shoot out of it? I figured it was just too tight of quarters. Any tips or thoughts on shooting with the 60" bow out of it? I'd love to try it.
KAZ
KAZ
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From: Rick Barbee
Date: 13-Nov-09
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KAZ, I don't know what size your DB is, but mine is the recurve model.
I believe it is 6' 6" tall at the center, and is 7' in diameter. Same with my Eastman blind.
My current bow is a 64", and I have no problem shooting from the blinds with it.
Before the 64" bow I shot anywhere from 66" to a 70" longbow, and never had a problem.
Don't use to tall of a chair to set in and shoot from, and if it is to tall, just slip off in and onto your knees, and shoot from there when the time comes.
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From: onesharpbroadhead
Date: 13-Nov-09
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I have kicked the dirt up too and am careful with the windows - I also have the recurve model and have no problem with my 62" PSA and I hold it verticle not even canted.
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From: markd
Date: 13-Nov-09
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I have taken about a dozen deer from a double bull and a few hogs and I love it! It is no fluke...they just do not smell you like they do when you are outside or up a tree. I shoot a 62 inch recurve from my recurve model just fine. A short chair does the trick. I got a shorter blind this year and it is absolutely unusable with my recurve. Even on my knees the windows are too high and my bow hits the roof. The DB recurve model works like a charm and I am 6'3" tall. 62" recurve or longbow either one has never been a problem in mine.
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From: onesharpbroadhead
Date: 13-Nov-09
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The only think I don't like about it - is that you can't see much - I just have the one window open where I will shoot - so it gets a little boring - I have been bringin an MP3 and listening to the radio - but it is a traditional mp3 player and a traditional radio station - :)
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From: onesharpbroadhead
Date: 13-Nov-09
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oos - meant to type "only thing" - not "think"
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From: Graysquirrel
Date: 13-Nov-09
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onesharp, open all the windows except the one that is behind you. The human smell will still be kept down and you'll see more.
Also you might dress the same color as the inside of your blind, it will keep noticeable movement down,,,,, especially listening to the 'traditional' country music (since that is the ONLY thing that can be traditional)
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From: Slickheadhunter
Date: 13-Nov-09
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I listen to both kinds of music...country and western!
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From: Scooter Trash
Date: 13-Nov-09
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I just got back from N.Dakota last week and had a lot mulies walk by the blind but the whitetails did'nt even get within 40yards. Maybe it was'nt brushed in good enough. The older I get the more I like keeping my feet on the ground.
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From: Buckchaser
Date: 14-Nov-09
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It's also nice to be able to get away with some of the little movements that you can hide with the blind.......
I got one of the primos blinds, looks like a DB but not as pricey......works great!
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From: buckthumper
Date: 16-Nov-09
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My scent really hasn't been the problem. It seems like as soon as a deer comes into range, they become wary of the blind no matter how I brush it in......Thumper
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From: onesharpbroadhead
Date: 16-Nov-09
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for me the deer have not even seemed to notice the blind - maybe it is the type of material and camo pattern. The Double Bull's are canvas so they are totally no reflective and they don't make unnatural sounds in rain or wind - also the Predator ground blind camo pattern is awesome - I have mine set up in some small pines and if you didn't know where to look - you would walk right past it and not even see it.
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From: sbostic
Date: 17-Nov-09
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Buckthumper, are you using a blind with smaller vertical windows without using netting? I find that the whitetails don't like those windows at all. Screens work for me.
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From: Bowhunter
Date: 17-Nov-09
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I got a heck of a deal on a Double Bull Matrix that a friend had. I set it up, brushed it in. Got inside, and sat down on my new Huntmore 360 Stool. About 45 minutes later along came a nice fat, sleek doe. Got to within 10yds. turned broadside and looked the other way. The rest is history. I made sure that I kicked leaves and dirt up around the bottom and hung scent wafers in the open windows. Worked like a charm. Got my blind for $200.00 and it's the one made for shooting a longbow out of. So I have more than enough room for either my Tomahawk Longbows or "Granny". Which is my 58" PSAIII Autumn Oak Recurve. I shot this deer with Granny.
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From: Rick Barbee
Date: 18-Nov-09
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The thing about brushing in the blinds is this -
The deer live there. They know what is there, so if you set a blind where there previously has been nothing, no mater how much you brush it in they will notice it. After it has been there a while they get used to it, and will pay it no attention, but it takes them a while,
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if you pick a spot to set it, that is already brushy, and kind of hollow that brushy spot out to set the blind in, then they are already used to that spot having a dense appearance, and will in most cases pay it no attention from the very get go.
You have to be selective, and try your best not to change up the area in overall appearance.
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From: onesharpbroadhead
Date: 18-Nov-09
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agrees with Rick - I have set mine up in places that were sort of dark and brushy to begin with and have never had a deer notice the blind. I kind of look for a natural pocket along a trail to tuck my blind into and I don't ever really brush it in - other than to make sure the bottom flaps are covered to keep scent in.
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From: MAXHunter
Date: 18-Nov-09
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I always set up my blind with the sun casting a shadow over it from my back. So when you are looking out of the blind you are in the dark and the animals are being lit up in front of you. It helps your shooting and it helps your cover. I love to put my blind under a tree so that the roof is covered by the brances. Then I attach vegetation to the blind. I just put out a blind on Saturday, I will wait about two weeks before I get in it. Like Rick said, the deer live there, and when something is different they notice it. Just as if you walked into your house and a painting on the wall is crooked, you would notice it. Now Mule Deer, Pronghorns, Turkeys are totally different. Also, during the Rut, a buck that enters woods for the first time has no idea that something is new. I killed my buck this season from my blind, he walked right past it cruising for does and he had no idea that the blind was out of place. The does however were looking at the blind repeatedly. I have noticed that scent definitely appears to be more under control in the blind.
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From: Rick Barbee
Date: 18-Nov-09
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Yep MAX - always try to put them where they are shaded. Makes a world of difference.
I am going to have to move the one I have out now. It has been there a while, and was in a great shady spot until the bushes, and trees it was in lost all their leaves. Now it sticks out like a sore thumb. LOL
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From: NoDrama
Date: 18-Nov-09
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I set up a blind for the first time this year. I also found a spot where there was already a fallen tree top etc and put the blind right up next to it, then brushed the rest in moderately. I was amazed at how close deer and turkeys would wander up next to me. I had several button bucks stand and brouse within five feet of the blind. I did notice that several mature bucks were not as comfortable getting close of course that is why they get to be trophys....... I am fixing to take one of these widows out next week and see if I can connect. Have to get the woodies finished first.
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From: JimBow
Date: 18-Nov-09
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I didn't have very good luck with my blind. I brushed it in with the same material that was there. I didn't use it for three days. The deer would all spook as soon as they got anywhere near, no matter in front or behind. Every evening at 5:45 the deer would spook behind me. Two actually came within sight for me but spooked as soon as they spotted the blind. I finally used a whole bottle of scent shield on me, the whole inside of the blind, and the screens. That night a small buck came in and fed within 15 yards for about 15 min. without spooking. He also came in at 5:45. I'm wondering if it was just because the blind was new and had the new smell to it.
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From: Rick Barbee
Date: 18-Nov-09
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I have a funny story to tell about my first DB blind.
I was hunting in Coleman CO. Tx at the time. My youngest daughter (who was about 15 at the time), loved going hunting with me. She never wanted to shoot, but she just loved being there with me, and watching.
She always carried a book to read for the slow times in between seeing animals, and on this one day she had fallen asleep, and leaned over against the side of the blind with her head right by one of the closed windows.
About 15 minutes after she fell asleep a lil 6 point buck came feeding in behind the blind, and actually started browsing on some of the still green bush I had placed it in, as well as on the acorns on the ground all around it (we were in the bush, and under a huge live oak).
After a bit the buck started licking, and nudging all around the sides of the blind. Heck, I thought at one point he was going to just lift it up, and come right in with us.
He kept moving around, feeding, and nudging the blind until he found the slit of the window (these were the old style windows that did not zip up, and just hung by a hook to keep them closed) where my daughters head was.
I was watching this all very intense and interested in what the outcome would be, so I just sat there, and let it unfold.
I saw the bucks nose come in the window, watched his tongue licking an feeling all around as far as he could reach with it, right up to the point when his nose came in full contact with my daughters right ear, at which point you would have thought the world was coming to an end.
The buck was doing back flips on the outside trying to get the heck away from there, and my daughter was doing back flips, and climbing the walls on the inside trying to get the heck out of there.
Will still have a lot of fun reminiscing about that one, and a lot of good laughs about the day the lil buck was trying ta give her kisses.
By the way - about 45 minutes later I killed my biggest buck to date with a stickbow.
It was one of my best days ever, and one of my fondest memories.
I missing having my children to hunt with me, but I am working on getting the grandkids to go now. 8^)
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From: Kuma San
Date: 19-Nov-09
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Have any of you used a Covert Chippewa blind? It seems big enough for a 62" bow.
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From: onesharpbroadhead
Date: 19-Nov-09
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my Double bull is 72" high and I have plenty of room for my 62" bow.
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From: Buckchaser
Date: 19-Nov-09
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Rick,
That is way too awesome! Talk about good times!
My daughter is 9 and she loves to hunt, which is why I got the blind in the first place, so she could sit with me and we could get away with all the jittery movement that young kids all have.......
First time out some turkeys fed over to the blind while she was asleep, early on a cold morning, once she woke up she stuck her whole arm out the little window and yelled "daddy look at the turkeys!!!"
Seconds later after a small explosion we were all alone. Laughing our butts off.
How do you top times like that?
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