I am a climbing tree stand guy. I also have experience in slings, but I have never hunted from a ground blind.
Over the last few years I have found a perfect location for a blind. (No trees for climber). The exact location is on the “Military Crest” of the slope. It is steep hillside in a clearcut an area they harvested but did not do a good job of replanting. Young planted pines about four feet high are sporadically planted directly below. But with slope, it gives me lots of visibility (and will for at least three more years). Below are three bottoms that join in a swamp and a hardwood ridge line on the other side. My view is about 210 degrees and I will be able to shoot about 300 yards in some areas, but I would say most shots are gonna be about 100 yards or a bit more. Behind me I will have almost no visibility due to slope. My plan is to build a short wooden platform to get a bit higher than the trees below and level it out. I want to hunt with a tripod for my rifle. But other than that I am curious as to suggestions to the set up (floor material, size or model of blind. Windows? Shoot thru?) and strategy while in the stand? I assume you want to be really still but does it really matter in a blind? Do you sit forward in the stand? Or stay back and with gun in ready? I assume you don’t want any or much of your barrel outside the blind. How big of a blind to use a tripod? Or just use sticks or mono?
What should I consider when building and sitting in a ground blind (slightly elevated)?
Thanks
Over the last few years I have found a perfect location for a blind. (No trees for climber). The exact location is on the “Military Crest” of the slope. It is steep hillside in a clearcut an area they harvested but did not do a good job of replanting. Young planted pines about four feet high are sporadically planted directly below. But with slope, it gives me lots of visibility (and will for at least three more years). Below are three bottoms that join in a swamp and a hardwood ridge line on the other side. My view is about 210 degrees and I will be able to shoot about 300 yards in some areas, but I would say most shots are gonna be about 100 yards or a bit more. Behind me I will have almost no visibility due to slope. My plan is to build a short wooden platform to get a bit higher than the trees below and level it out. I want to hunt with a tripod for my rifle. But other than that I am curious as to suggestions to the set up (floor material, size or model of blind. Windows? Shoot thru?) and strategy while in the stand? I assume you want to be really still but does it really matter in a blind? Do you sit forward in the stand? Or stay back and with gun in ready? I assume you don’t want any or much of your barrel outside the blind. How big of a blind to use a tripod? Or just use sticks or mono?
What should I consider when building and sitting in a ground blind (slightly elevated)?
Thanks