Brush Blinds

[bowandarrow473]

I'm getting ready to start my selfbow hunting season for deer in SC and was wondering. How do you guys make brush blinds? I've made them before but have always wondered if there were any other/better ways to make them. I generally just make large box like structure out of saplings and weave brush and sticks into the structure. What do you guys do?

[osage outlaw]

I gather brush from the surrounding areas.  Cedar trees are great for building blinds. 

[Eric Krewson]

I build a variety, some out of dead logs and branches, some out of brush with the leaves still on.

The log blinds are somewhat permanent, the brush blinds may stay in the same place but have to be replenished every time I use one.  I like to cut beech branches with the leaves on because the leaves will stay on all winter even after they are dead. I pick a spot that has some natural vegetation to weave my cut branches through.

I killed my biggest buck ever out of this blind, the front is solid but I have  holes cut to shoot through.



The blind fooled this guy for an 8 yard shot;

[Aaron H]

I also gather from surrounding areas, I try to be picky about what I grab and where I grab it from.  By doing this, I can try to manipulate in which direction I would like the deer to pass by my blind.

[PEARL DRUMS]

Good timing. I was at one of my haunts 3 days ago. A big box elder had fallen along the edge of the beans near a rock pile blind I already sit in. Well, I broke off at least 2 dozen branches that had dead leaves clinging. When a tree falls over green and then dies, the leaves stick. When the leaves turn on their own, they will not stick. Anywho, I took all those branches and stuffed them into the ground 3-4" deep all around my rock blind. Now I have 4' high branch walls. Ill break a few shooting holes out next time. Ground hunting is relaxing and fun for me.

[Danzn Bar]

I gather brush from the surrounding areas.  Cedar trees are great for building blinds. 

Me too...Clint
I really like ground blinds of natural material,  in my hunting area there is a lot of small beech trees, I cut limbs this time of year to make shooting lanes and use the limbs for blind material . the leaves of beech trees turn a light brown and stay on the branches all winter just like they do naturally.
DBar
 

[bowandarrow473]

Eric do you have any problems with deer spoting g your siloute in that type of blind? I always close up the back and sides but that looks like significantly less effort, I'd love to try it if I'll still be invisible to deer from the front.

[Eric Krewson]

The blind is a lot thicker than it looks in the picture, deer can't see through it.

[PEARL DRUMS]

I've found that what is behind me is every bit as important as what is in front. At times they can peer through the front side small openings and silhouette you if your backing is inadequate.

[Danzn Bar]

Very good point Chris.......most of the time the blind is not make high enough behind you, the deer are lower to the ground than you would think and your head will be silhouetted and any motion is easily seen. 
DBar

[Pat B]

Maybe put your back up against a tree to break up your silhouette or at least heavy brush.

[mullet]

Down here in Florida the fronds off of Cabbage Palm trees is my choice. If you need to put a roof on in the rain you can do it pretty quick, too.

[bowandarrow473]

 I LOVE CABBAGE PALMS!! Ive made several small blinds in the woods behind the house using them and would do the same in SC but alas none grow there.

[Pat B]

They do from the Midlands to the coast, B&A.

[mullet]

B&A473, the ultimate turkey hunting blind.