Hunting Forum

The hub blinds are definitely easier to take down than the pop-ups. I have one of each and prefer the hub blind. My daughter hunted out of my pop-up this spring and didn't have too much trouble with it though.

If this sounds crazy someone please tell me, but I built a turkey blind a few weeks ago. The really strong thunderstorms we had in the Mid-Atlantic this summer knocked down a lot of trees on our property. With all the wood just sitting in a pile, I decided to cut up a couple of the trees into six foot logs to stack them in a U-formation, with the open backing up against a wooded fence line and bulge pointing out into a field where I see turkeys puttering about on a regular basis. I've put leaved branches along the front to provide better concealment - you know, so it doesn't just look like some miniature roofless log cabin.

Turkeys have strolled right by my blind in both the evening and morning, but never when I've been in it (the season doesn't start until the last week of October).

I'll try to post pictures of it next time I get out to the property.

Has anyone else built their own blind and has it been effective?

Natural blinds are great for turkl burds....

I think "natural" blinds are better than the store bought. BUT, they need to look natural too. The main thing going for you in the case of any blind is familiarity. The game becomes familiar with the blind or stand being there. That's one reason some of thse "old" guys consistantly produc game. They are in stands or blinds that have been in the same place for years and to the critters in the area, it'd be weird if it wasn't there

Yep, Ive used more than one piece of farm equipment that was retired and parked in a fence row as a blind. Once its part of the environment nothing pays much attention after a while.

I have used a "pop-up" blind a cupplathree times turkl burd hunting.....in middle of wide open field where they would fly down to and do their thing and totally ignore me.....twice, they totally ignored blind....twice they landed where I previously set up........only thing that tells me is close to nothing except I took out Boss twice!