Let's talk about ground blinds...

[Orion6]

I'll be hunting with my 80 year old grandfather and trying like heck to get him one.

Anybody ever had luck out of a blind? I have always "run and gun" the birds with the exception of my first 16 years ago. I was in a natural blind then.

I am hunting a lot of mixed growth and clearcuts. I don't want to wear him out but haven't used a blind at all in forever. Any tips or tactics or can we just brush it in a little and sit tight?

 

[Howa]

You don't have to brush in a blind for turkeys, you could sit one in a parking lot and they won't pay any attention to it at all. My boy just killed one out of a blind Saturday morning, set up in a cow pasture.

 

[Trevor2]

Set it up anywhere man. Killed one last year with my blind in the wide open cow pasture.

 

[RAFI]

You don't have to brush in a blind for turkeys, you could sit one in a parking lot and they won't pay any attention to it at all. My boy just killed one out of a blind Saturday morning, set up in a cow pasture.

agree I hate blinds but i plan on setting one up on a road this weekend for my sons first turkey hunt.i think it will work

 

[Bullfrog]

I'm convinced that they just do not care about the blind. Its like its not even there. Just be sure to keep your back windows zipped so that you have the black out effect

 

[Hunt 365]

X2. The turkeys don't notice them at all. Don't even brush them in

 

[FARMTOFIELD]

You don't have to brush in a blind for turkeys, you could sit one in a parking lot and they won't pay any attention to it at all. My boy just killed one out of a blind Saturday morning, set up in a cow pasture.

X2 i broke my leg one fall and my dad (best dad in the world) would push me to my ground blind in a wheel chair every morning before he would go climb a tree. I had winter flocks of turkeys that would come through and work all around it. i even had a lone hen one morning that was feeding up a lane in the pines that run head first into it. She didnt hang around long, because i was lmao

 

[RUGER]

As everyone has said, just put the blind up and make sure you have all the windows shut opposite any you have open.

Works great, it is like the blind is invisible to them.
Amazing.

 

[VolDoug]

X2 i broke my leg one fall and my dad (best dad in the world) would push me to my ground blind in a wheel chair every morning before he would go climb a tree. I had winter flocks of turkeys that would come through and work all around it. i even had a lone hen one morning that was feeding up a lane in the pines that run head first into it. She didnt hang around long, because i was lmao

That's a great dad right there!

All good advice. Like others, it is not my preferred style, but it works.

I would suggest a jake and hen decoy. This is the setup I used last weekend with my daughter. I sat on the right side, and she on the left. I had the dekes on her side as we were facing the field. When the birds came in field, she couldn't see them as we had closed the front window when some rain had come through. I told her to put her gun on the decoys, and in literally 30 seconds the three gobblers were standing in front of it.

Good luck and post pics !

 

[Orion6]

Thanks fellas. I'm going to give it a whirl.