Americana Outdoors E-Magazine - August 2020

DEER STANDS COME IN ALL SHAPES AND SIZES

BY WADE MIDDLETON

When you start looking at all the different stands we’ve built, from the common simple “let’s just throw five pieces of brush up here and hide by this tree”, to some of the most extravagant blinds we can build with feeders and food plots in the area, all of them have a special meaning and all of them are enjoyable at the end of the day. “I just love that aspect of it. I think it goes back to when we were little kids building out of cardboard boxesor brush tohidewhen you’replayingCowboys and Indians. I sit here today in my 50s, and I still like to build forts and deer blinds just as much now as I did then.” – Wade Middleton MAKE-SHIFT BLINDS You know some of the most simple blinds a person can put together is to just take a couple of pallets, spray paint them a little bit, to kind of get some of the shine off of them for a future hunt, throw some brush up around them, and you’re going to find success with those. I’ve even seen those go to massive levels, where you put all kinds of brush around them.

You can easily create a make-shift blind simply out of the trees around you. POP UP BLINDS

Using a Pop Up blind like this one is one of the most versatile ways to hunt.