Tips for selling more ground blinds to hunters.
My first deer hunting experience almost 45 years ago was with my father in a ground blind in southwest Alabama. This blind was built from salvaged 2×4 boards and corrugated sheet metal that probably came off an old barn roof. We sat on a little bench in this claustrophobic shack with slits to stick our scoped rifles through if we saw a buck, arriving before dawn and departing after sunset. That’s how we hunted then. We took sandwiches, apples, cheddar cheese, a Coke, binoculars and a seat cushion. I saw my first deer from that stand, a doe that locked eyes with me momentarily. After sunset, in the dark, we walked through the woods and across a swinging bridge over a swirling, muddy, undammed river. I was hooked.
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