The Best Places to Set Up Hunting Blinds for Summer Scouting & Observation

Summer is the perfect time to set up your Banks Outdoors hunting blind to observe and scout out this year’s deer herd and prepare for the fall hunting season. You can tell a lot about a deer herd by observing them during the summer, so set up your Stump blind now and start taking in the deer data. Check out our tips below for the best places to drop them.

Near a Food Source

One of the best places to put a hunting blind is near a food source. Be careful of hunting right over where deer feed because if you overhunt it, the rest of the herd won’t return to that spot in the future. Set up along a path that leads to it or in one section of it. If you have your own hunting property, you can set up one of our deer feeders on your property and create your own food source. Just make sure it’s legal in your region because supplemental feeding isn’t legal everywhere. Our Feedbank Gravity Deer Feeders can be placed on a single 6×6 wood post. Because it’s only a single post, it’s very easy to move around your property. If you prefer a feeder that sits on the ground, check out one of our Timber feeders. Each feeder comes with multiple ports, so multiple members of the deer herd can feed at the same time, giving you more opportunities to observe their behavior.

Near a Water Source

Another great place to set up your blind is near a water source. If you have a natural, existing water source like a creek or a pond on your hunting property, set up your blind near the water. If you don’t have an existing source, you can create your own with our Wild Water Systems. The Wild Water 300 holds up to 300 gallons of water and comes with two troughs. So, like the feeders, multiple deer from the herd can drink from the system at the same time. The system has an automatic valve that fills the troughs back up when it senses they’re empty. You can add our Wild Water Mineral Supplements to the water tank if you want to create extra dependency on your property. The minerals provide various nutrients the deer need to stay healthy and grow large antlers. Different flavors like apple, persimmon, grape and vanilla will keep the herd coming back all summer.

Acorns

Deer love acorns in the summer, so check out areas where there’s a forest of white oak trees. The acorns from these trees are sweet like candy, so deer gobble them up. Other oak trees will drop acorns, but they will be more bitter.

This summer, place your Stump blind next to food and water sources for optimum viewing and observation of the deer herd. Stay concealed in your blind thanks to the natural exterior and stealthy one-way viewing windows that allow you to see out but don’t allow deer to see in. Staying in the blind will also keep you protected from the heat rather than baking in the sun while scouting on foot. Take notes and use what you learn over the summer months to help you plan your fall hunt.

Where do you set up your hunting blinds for summer scouting? Let us know in the comments below!