Have Hunting Blind - Will Travel

We have a couple of permanent hunting blinds that have worked well in the past, but sometimes we'd like to have a blind at a current "Hot Spot". A local chain store had a sale on 5-sided hunting blind kits a few months ago and I decided to make it into a portable hunting blind.

I built a 5-sided base that matched the layout of the kit and included runners that would allow me to pick it up with pallet forks on a tractor.

Leveling the portable hunting blind after moving it to a test site.

Very strong winds this afternoon and no movement at all. Great panoramic view from office chair. Just need to set up the propane heater.

Wildlife Food Plot

I replanted a 1/2 acre food plot this summer with ladino clover and winter wheat. To check on the wildlife grazing activity in the food plot I placed a box wire fence around a small section of the replanted area. Inside the fenced-off area the winter wheat is over 16 inches high, the rest of the food plot is less than 2 inches high.

Coyote Bites The Dust

My son Matt and I were riding around our property in the side-by-side this afternoon when we spotted something bedded down in a field behind our barn. At first we thought it was a small deer, but we soon realized it was a coyote. As the saying goes, "The things you see when you don't have a gun". After a quick half mile drive to the house we returned with the 300 Win Mag and the coyote was still in the field. Matt went to the upper level loft in the barn and dropped the coyote at 215 yards with one shot.