Hey all, I reporting back on the advice to buy a Double Bull Ground blind for deer and turkies. Thanks Neil, Hank and Dave, and more, for the advice to buy a Double Bull – I bought one of the clearance Double Bull 360’s from Cabelas, and from what I can tell they are the pre-Primos purchase overstock blinds. They have no mention of Primos, other than a flyer slipped in.
Anyway, I’ve had it out with Gus twice (the purpose for buying) and we haven’t tagged a deer, but it is sweet. So fast up and down, quiet - just slick. I did use it to tag my personal best archery buck though!!!
Deer story follows below… I have been trying really hard to shoot a big mature buck for the past couple years with my bow. I've shot some decent antlered deer, but not the horse I’ve been looking for. I have been watching a pair of nice bucks for the past two months and have been hoping that they stay in their bachelor/summer pattern until the season opens. They have been consistently moving through a property I have permission on and I had them patterned pretty well. I hunted from a permanent tree stand that I have up last week on a good wind, but they moved by out of range and teased me at 60+ yards. To position myself closer to the trail, I had no good tree to hunt – so out came the Double Bull – I even had on a ninja mask on! The lesser of the two bucks and a herd of does passed by out of range and, but the big boy lingered and came by at 40 yards, I drew on him, but I couldn’t stop him, so the whole mess of them ended up in the field downwind at 50 -100 yards for an hour. They moved back into the woods and the big one passed by at 40 yards, I drew on him when he was perfectly positioned, but I had a dead stick at 20 yards over his vitals. He heard me let down and slowed his pace looking my direction. He stopped at 40 with his front 1/3 behind a tree, but he was quartering away, so I needed to hit in the area of the rear couple ribs to push forward to get lung, I had that shot, but not by much. Arrow flew true and he was off. I found no blood at all, but I knew my arrow was in him and roughly the right place if he was quartering away as hard as I thought (if he was more broadside than I thought, I would have liver). I left him for the night and picked up his track in the morning and tracked him with no blood, just by trailing his footprints to find him dead about 100 yards out. I got liver and both lungs – the arrow almost passed through the far side - it passed through the ribcage but not the skin and broke off inside. The entry sealed up and didn’t leak a bit of blood. All is well that ends well! This deer was an honest 200# gutted from my scale that I know is true in that range. A 7 point with nice mass - I couldn’t be happier. Dealing with a big deer in the heat is no fun though.
From my trail cam...
Anyway, I’ve had it out with Gus twice (the purpose for buying) and we haven’t tagged a deer, but it is sweet. So fast up and down, quiet - just slick. I did use it to tag my personal best archery buck though!!!
Deer story follows below… I have been trying really hard to shoot a big mature buck for the past couple years with my bow. I've shot some decent antlered deer, but not the horse I’ve been looking for. I have been watching a pair of nice bucks for the past two months and have been hoping that they stay in their bachelor/summer pattern until the season opens. They have been consistently moving through a property I have permission on and I had them patterned pretty well. I hunted from a permanent tree stand that I have up last week on a good wind, but they moved by out of range and teased me at 60+ yards. To position myself closer to the trail, I had no good tree to hunt – so out came the Double Bull – I even had on a ninja mask on! The lesser of the two bucks and a herd of does passed by out of range and, but the big boy lingered and came by at 40 yards, I drew on him, but I couldn’t stop him, so the whole mess of them ended up in the field downwind at 50 -100 yards for an hour. They moved back into the woods and the big one passed by at 40 yards, I drew on him when he was perfectly positioned, but I had a dead stick at 20 yards over his vitals. He heard me let down and slowed his pace looking my direction. He stopped at 40 with his front 1/3 behind a tree, but he was quartering away, so I needed to hit in the area of the rear couple ribs to push forward to get lung, I had that shot, but not by much. Arrow flew true and he was off. I found no blood at all, but I knew my arrow was in him and roughly the right place if he was quartering away as hard as I thought (if he was more broadside than I thought, I would have liver). I left him for the night and picked up his track in the morning and tracked him with no blood, just by trailing his footprints to find him dead about 100 yards out. I got liver and both lungs – the arrow almost passed through the far side - it passed through the ribcage but not the skin and broke off inside. The entry sealed up and didn’t leak a bit of blood. All is well that ends well! This deer was an honest 200# gutted from my scale that I know is true in that range. A 7 point with nice mass - I couldn’t be happier. Dealing with a big deer in the heat is no fun though.
From my trail cam...
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Good job. HHG
