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I set up tonight on the same farm I've been hunting the past few times. Again, the Ghost Blind made the most sense given the time (or lack thereof). I got right back in the same corner that I filmed previously, but switched sides due to the prevailing wind. Sure enough, about 30 minutes before the end of legal light, a yearling doe comes out. Now, I've been letting the junior bucks walk, but a yearling doe is fair game.
She came in unaware, but the second the ReplayXD vibrated to let me know it was recording the video, she heard it in the light wind and perked right up. My general area was the center of attention the rest of the time, but she never did figure me out or get spooked. When she finally stopped head popping every few seconds and went back to eating, I drew and scored a good, solid hit at 20 yards, slightly quartering.
She only went about 100 yards back into the woods, and the longest part of the tracking job was waiting for my landowner to get a hold of the neighbor so I could cut through their land and go retrieve the deer.
Yeah...this thing works.
Ghost Blind kill: that didn't take long...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W01gpAGG9r4I set up tonight on the same farm I've been hunting the past few times. Again, the Ghost Blind made the most sense given the time (or lack thereof). I got right back in the same corner that I filmed previously, but switched sides due to the prevailing wind. Sure enough, about 30 minutes before the end of legal light, a yearling doe comes out. Now, I've been letting the junior bucks walk, but a yearling doe is fair game.
She came in unaware, but the second the ReplayXD vibrated to let me know it was recording the video, she heard it in the light wind and perked right up. My general area was the center of attention the rest of the time, but she never did figure me out or get spooked. When she finally stopped head popping every few seconds and went back to eating, I drew and scored a good, solid hit at 20 yards, slightly quartering.
She only went about 100 yards back into the woods, and the longest part of the tracking job was waiting for my landowner to get a hold of the neighbor so I could cut through their land and go retrieve the deer.
Yeah...this thing works.
Accuracy: because white space between bullet holes drives me insane.
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I'm kinda thinking of getting one of these for coyote hunting.
ETA: Nevermind it played. Good video. The blind seems effective.
I will be testing it on coyotes as soon as I score my next and final deer allowed in this county. I will let you know how it works.
Thanks!
Timing was the toughest part. Once she heard that damned vibration from the camera, I was getting "spot checked" every few seconds for quite a while. You can see that I was about to draw at one point and had to wait because she was cueing in. Once I was at full draw, it was all over at that range.
It's one of those tags that's so hard to justify when you live in a rifle state. In Nebraska, you only got 2 chances at a buck all year, and if you bought an archery tag, you burned one of those chances. I hesitated because I was not at all confident that I could get within archery range of a deer on public land. I hunted the rifle and muzzleloader seasons exclusively as a result. That changed when we discovered a tough-to-access stretch of public land that required a boat AND was archery only. We had it all to ourselves.
You, my friend have PRIVATE land, and that's a whole different kind of awesome for bow hunters. That's the same situation I'm in now and exactly why I've had deer come out every night I've been out here. You need to just buy the damned tag and go for it. Once you get that first archery kill in a long time, you won't regret the decision.
Oh, and be sure you make the windows in that new shoot house of yours tall enough to accommodate an archery shot for the height of your bow!
I wonder if they ship to Kiwiland???
I didn't realize your bow was that old, and I have to agree that throwing money at it is pointless. Yeah, starting up from scratch this year wouldn't make much sense. I practice over the Summer to make sure I'm in shooting form for the season and wouldn't suggest that you do it differently. But, you can start piecing it together and practicing as soon as the funds allow for it. Definitely get the bow first (after trying several in person) followed by the sights and arrows, but the rest of the stuff you can get over the course of months, if needed.
Thanks and yes, as I told Zee, timing was everything. The video cuts the whole encounter roughly in half, as the actual time lapsed during it was just over 6 minutes.
I believe they do ship Ghost Blinds overseas, or at least that general area of the Pacific, because I swear I read a review from a guy in neighboring Australia. I can only *imagine* what you could pull off in your woods with one of these setups! The more convoluted the foreground earth is, the better. Their promo does a good job of demonstrating why:
Yeah, and getting to shoot that bow at wor...I mean inspect those fire supression systems had to be awesome.
Congradulations!
The only crappy part of this whole deal is that I have to pay for processing. I have everything I need to do it at home, but I'm literally in Chicago right now on a plane departing for Bozeman, MT to hunt deer/speedgoats shortly. Given my piss poor choice of days to take a shot, I had no choice but to drop this one at the butcher!
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
And somehow you want us to feel bad for you????
Nice shot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfcedpoBDbk
John 3: 1-21
Jerry
Hah! It's gonna be chilly out here! Seriously though, it should be a fun, low stress hunt since we're not in peak opportunity periods for either season. We'll likely just take what we get and go fish or bird hunt. That's how it went last year and we had a blast.
This is true. What you speak of is exactly why you can dodge around in those shooting slots to some degree without the animal caring much, if at all. With a gun, the profile changes are even less obtrusive since almost nothing protrudes over the top edge of the blind.
For those looking to buy or build one of these things, I have a word of advice if you plan to bowhunt with it: sit sideways. For instance, being a lefty shooter, I sit on the right edge of the blind with chair facing the left edge. You would think that being centered would be a good thing behind something like this, but I don't find that to be the case at all. You get much more room with your arrow nocked if you sit on the opposite side of your dominant/shooting hand. This also gives you more articulation in the direction that you can turn easiest making it less likely that you won't be able to turn enought to take a shot.