ADVANCED STAND STRATEGIES
It rarely works this well. No sooner had I climbed in the Redneck blind when I was covered up in deer. In fact, though the cast of deer feasting on the brassicas in the Antler King Honey Hole food plot kept changing, there wasn’t a moment when I wasn’t surrounded — and I do mean surrounded.
When I first started using elevated box blinds, I had limited experience with them. Luckily, I had a buddy who loves hunting from them. So, I’d deferred to his experience and went with his suggestion of placing it right in the middle of an isolated 4-acre food plot. I knew better, but had asked, and felt I owed him an attempt.
Well, I’ve learned an awful lot about hunting from them since then, and I’ve rued that placement since my first sit there. In fact, by the time you read this, I’ll have tucked that same blind into the edge of some cover, offering lower impact entrances and exits, and hunting. And I won’t have to worry about covering 360 degrees of wide open “shooting lanes.”
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