Just wondering if anyone uses pit blinds I thought about these but worry about snakes and spiders inhabiting the pit. Saw a blind online that is a sealed container that you dig your hole and insert the canister. Neat, but another thing to worry about. I like a lower profile when hunting from the ground but the lower the seat the more it hurts my knees.

I used to use them for geese and I dug a couple for turkey hunting in places where I didn't have any cover. That was about a hundred years ago and digging a pit in this hardpan would probably kill me, before I got to use it, now. They can be deadly in the right place.

When you think about it, we...humans...stand at a disadvantageous height. Our eyes are normally at the same level as low vegetation.

Our visibility is better above that brush line...tree stand or elevated position...or below the brush...ground level.

While I've never hunted from a pit blind, I know a few who have. With success, albeit mainly with a firearm.

The first time I really thought about it was when a friend was out with his very young son. The lad saw deer dad couldn't see, because of different "eye levels".

Killed my first deer sitting on a 5 gallon bucket in a hole next to a tree with the dirt piled around the edge

that container system you saw,,,,, I saw it too, kind of not too practical,,,,,,

My buddy shot a 176 12 pointer this year,, at 8 steps, out of his pit blind.....

He retired the stick bow, years ago, hunts with a cross bow, and made pit blinds on his land,,,,, he lives in sw wis a primo area for big bucks.....

HIs he dug deep, using commercial equipment when he could, but did dig some out,,,, they are reinforced on the corners with posts, and he puts a slanted plywood roof over it, to keep the rain and snow out,,,,,,

He covers them up with brush, looks like a Jap machine gun nest, man it is effective....

I have used them and they work great. Started using them for antelope but now also use the for deer. I dig a hole 2 to 3 feet deep and the put 1 end of an 18 foot hog or cattle panel in 1 end of the hole and flex it putting the other end in other side of hole. You can adjust height by how deep your hole is or how wide your hole is. for the front and back I use concrete reinforceing mess and a few T posts. Cut a shooting hole. Cover in burlap or surplus military camo and brush in. Takes me about 3 hours to build one and they last for years.

Years ago our duck club had 19 pits in the rice fields. killed hundreds of ducks from them. We were young then and had no problem taking them from the county. When the county delivered new garbage bins we would haul them off. No biggie.....our taxes were buying them.

James

This is how I hunt in Africa. It is a killer

Nothing in the ground that can hurt you. Spiders will haul ass out of there when they see something a thousand times bigger than them coming in the hole. Should be able to see any snakes in a dug hole also. If you're afraid, then spray it good with Raid before you use it.

used to sit on a stool in a little creek with rubber boots on

Just head above the creek bank could get the bow ready and slowly stand to shoot worked perty good

Tom Parsons showed me that little trick

Lots of litttle creeks around here

We used to use pits when we hunted antelope in the 80's and 90's. Hated digging them, then having to fill them back in. Secret was sage brush arranged behind you. We'd dig it with a bench in the back and you slid to your kness to shoot.

We only had one snake roll into the blind while we were in it. Was quite a site, trying to get outa the blind and then using our bows to flip it out. We also learned to shine the light into the blind every morning before you stepped in to it.

You don't see many pits dug anymore. Too much work compared to popping up a blind...

People still use them in NV for antelope. Not deep and brushed in. Digging a shallow “pit” and putting the pop up over. It would make the longbow easier to use. Does for me, anyway

Andy I do the same thing,,,, I have a primo spot, looking up at the beaver dam crossing,,,, I am down below, sitting in a chair, in the creek, by a downfall,,,,,, killer spot

It's a good method, using a pit blind. I find natural ones from wind toppled trees. Root wads form part of the 'blind', and the hole left from it forms a partial pit. I called in and got a shot at a 6 pt from this one this fall but missed, twig deflected it. 15 yard shot. This pit isn't as deep as most of the other spots I find like this.

This was a root wad pit I found on a snowey wooded hillside on,state land, loaded with deer. Fresh tracks everywhere, but no,deer appeared while I was there. Later that day I called in two bucks from a different spot I found but got no shots.

This was a root wad pit I found on a snowey wooded hillside on,state land, loaded with deer. Fresh tracks everywhere, but no,deer appeared while I was there. Later that day I called in two bucks from a different spot I found but got no shots.

This one was at the bottom of the same hillside. Very cold this day...didnt see any snakes. This pit was very shallow. Trees in wet areas have roots that run along the surface making them prone to blowing over...no pun intended.

This one was at the bottom of the same hillside. Very cold this day...didnt see any snakes. This pit was very shallow. Trees in wet areas have roots that run along the surface making them prone to blowing over...no pun intended.

This one was at the bottom of the same hillside. Very cold this day...didnt see any snakes. This pit was very shallow. Trees in wet areas have roots that run along the surface making them prone to blowing over...no pun intended.

Just in case you didn't get that the first time.... sorry, I didn't think they were going from the phone so I kept pushing the keys. Wow!

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