Grund hunting blinds????

[Lee Whitsel]

In mid 60's as a young teen I read every hunting and fishing magazine I could get. Never dreamed I'd ever live here in the west and do the things I read about in the Rockies. One day out archery hunting i was all camo up and hiding along a woods line. elk, crows, magpies, deer, etc. all out in the meadow milling around. They where all close together no critter was alarmed of the other. needing to get closer for a bow shot on the elk. I stood up very slowly and moving real easy all the critters spooks and took of at the same time. Happens so many times to all of us. Then one day I was thinking about why was those critters of all kinds not scared of each other close together and as soon as one got movement at a distance they all fled ? I then remembered and article i think maybe field and stream from those 60's mag. where a Pa. hg hunter was sneaking up on hogs out in the fields with a 357 mag. and shooting them at close range from behind a sheet pure white stretched out over a big 0 shaped screen with 2 eye holes cut it to see as he walked along what the hogs where doing. He walked slowly and keep watch and when he saw the hogs set up and from feeding he stopped set the screen n the ground and they where not scared 0f the pure white screen that he was hiding behind. He claimed white was a neutral color to wild animals that they saw no fear in. He shot a l0t of hogs with his 357 0pen sights at close range doing just that. I often though about that and wondered if a ground blind made 0f pure while sheets with a small eye h0les cut in to see out would work on elk, deer, bear, etc. ????? just pure white being a no fear color t0 wild animals. Any one of you ever try a pure white blind or shield like this guy made from plastic pipe and a sheet tied on to it?????????

 

[JSH]

Look at ALL of the camo designs and colors. I often think it is all marketing. Look at old hunting photos from the teens and 20’s market hunters wore a lot of plaid wool clothing.

 

[Klong]

Movement and scent are your enemies.

 

[Webster]

In mid 60's as a young teen I read every hunting and fishing magazine I could get. Never dreamed I'd ever live here in the west and do the things I read about in the Rockies. One day out archery hunting i was all camo up and hiding along a woods line. elk, crows, magpies, deer, etc. all out in the meadow milling around. They where all close together no critter was alarmed of the other. needing to get closer for a bow shot on the elk. I stood up very slowly and moving real easy all the critters spooks and took of at the same time. Happens so many times to all of us. Then one day I was thinking about why was those critters of all kinds not scared of each other close together and as soon as one got movement at a distance they all fled ? I then remembered and article i think maybe field and stream from those 60's mag. where a Pa. hg hunter was sneaking up on hogs out in the fields with a 357 mag. and shooting them at close range from behind a sheet pure white stretched out over a big 0 shaped screen with 2 eye holes cut it to see as he walked along what the hogs where doing. He walked slowly and keep watch and when he saw the hogs set up and from feeding he stopped set the screen n the ground and they where not scared 0f the pure white screen that he was hiding behind. He claimed white was a neutral color to wild animals that they saw no fear in. He shot a l0t of hogs with his 357 0pen sights at close range doing just that. I often though about that and wondered if a ground blind made 0f pure while sheets with a small eye h0les cut in to see out would work on elk, deer, bear, etc. ????? just pure white being a no fear color t0 wild animals. Any one of you ever try a pure white blind or shield like this guy made from plastic pipe and a sheet tied on to it?????????

You would look like the Klu Klux Klan varmint hunting.

 

[Coyotefurharvester]

I know with camo pop ups, deer require several days to become accustomed to the blind(especially if it is an open area or not bushed in). 2 weeks and they seldom look at the blind. Wish I had a white/insulated one for the winter.

 

[K22]

Back in the 60's we used blinds made of fallen branches to conceal ourselves from crows. We would call them in, then emerge from the top of the blind with shotguns and blast them. It worked quite effectively.

 

[snert]

Goose hunters use whites. Varmint hunters use whites in the snow.