Hiding in plain sight

Yukon Tracks Elite Enforcer ground blind concealed me from two whitetail deer only 10 yards away. How is that different than any other blind? It’s tall enough to accommodate shots while seated with a recurve bow. Actually, I can shoot from it standing up, but I’m only 5 feet tall—probably a few inches shy of the average hunter. My 6-feet-tall husband, Mike, who shoots a 66-inch-long recurve, can shoot out of the blind, also.

We hunted from the blind during a north-central South Dakota whitetail hunt. This area, well east of the Black Hills, is known for pheasants, not its woodlots. Trees can be a mile or more apart, with those suitable for tree stands even more rare. The blind got us close to the deer near the brushy areas where the deer hide.

The Enforcer Elite folds up into a package not much bigger than a cloth folding chair you might take to a concert in the park, weighing about 14 pounds. One person can set it up.

Unseasonably cold weather hit South Dakota during our early October hunt, with high temperatures 20 to 30 degrees below normal. Add chilling winds often reaching 20 to 25 miles per hour with gusts up to 30 miles per hour and you have times of too-cold-to-hunt conditions. We didn’t miss much, though. The deer hunkered down during the worst of the weather.

The blind withstood the wind and protected me from wind chill, while Mike shivered in a tree stand. Due to the weather, I only got one shot, but we’ll be buying another Yukon Tracks Enforcer Elite blind. Mike has had enough of turning into an icicle.

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Yukon Tracks Elite Enforcer blind: $219