Turkey Blind Setup Tips for Bowhunters

Alright guys, just a couple turkey hunting tips for all of you out there who are bowhunting turkeys out of a ground blind. This is an Ameristep Banshee blind. As you can see, I've got see-through mesh panels. There's my little man Jake out there. I've got panel, panel. For me, when I am bowhunting for turkeys, when I can, I like to shoot out of these side windows in the corner of the blind. It gives me a little bit more room, I feel like, to shoot rather than going through this big V window. I would say the most common times that people hit the blind are when they're maneuvering in here and they're hitting this post. Personally, for me, I like to set my decoy. I've got the Jake decoy, 10 yards out there. I like to get my chair set up as far as I can in the back of this blind. It gives me plenty of room to draw my bow and shoot out to that decoy. I'm always putting my Jake or my strutter in the spot where I want to shoot. I'm putting my hen a couple yards ahead of it, and I will turn the decoy so it looks like the Jake or the strutter is facing the hen, although the wind will have a tendency to blow them around. Don't forget the buddy heater. If it's cold out, very, very important. Now, this is my cameraman chair. I will be hunting this blind next week with my son Joey, so I will be filming. He will be hunting out of the chair that I'm in right now. As you can see, it's kind of back towards the back of the blind. Another tip for you guys, when you're hunting out of a blind, always bring rubber-coated wire, and I'll show you why. So, this particular window system is awesome, but I like to make sure that this window is as open as possible here while still having as much coverage as I can on the left side over here, and that's difficult to do to pull this down because what you guys are going to see is I've got some rubber wire that I've used to tie this up. So, if I untie this right now, what's generally going to happen, if I want to, let's say, put this guy up here and clip him in, now you're going to cover this window quite a bit, right? And I want to get this as far down as I can. Now, you can see it's pulling on that, which is not what I want, so I'm going to undo this. I'm going to pull this down, but you can see just by the very nature of the way that this thing's made, I want to keep this as high as possible over here on my left. It's still going to cover this up, so that's where I like to go down with this material right here, and then we're going to use our tie, kind of tie it like so, and now we've got a nice big opening. On this side, it's not as important because he's not generally shooting that direction. That's where I'm going to be with the camera filming right there. So, again, this is the Ameristep Banshee. It's a new blind. I love it, partially because it's really, really big. You can see we're going to have two guys in here, and there's plenty of room. You could fit a third guy in here. We've got a backpack. We've got a heater. You can see all the room that we've got in here. This is your door in the back. You've got a little peekaboo window there, peekaboo window there, and you've got a larger shooting window if you needed one on that side, but we are focused on shooting out there. So, that is, yeah, that's what I got. So, good luck to everybody out there. Ballin' or die, baby.