The trailer blinds work very good for me because both my farm and my father's are flat as a pancake, and the foot or two of elevation they provide is plenty. This year I set mine up on a 3 ft berm at the edge of a pond so I really have a nice view. My dad gave up hunting a few years ago, but after seeing those comfortable ground blinds he is thinking of takeing it up again. Another nice feature of the trailer blinds is, you can pull them back up to the shop as needed for easy maintenence. What amazes me the most about them however, is how the deer, even the wise old does that have had a knack for staying out of range of my permanent tree-stands, seem to just walk right up to them when I am inside. There is so much bowhunting around me before gun season that I think they have become accustomed to danger from above. My favorite moment in one last season occurred at high noon on a very bright, cloudless day when it was also very cold with about 4" of fresh snow. I watched a nice buck walk out of the bush at that time and begin feeding on clover/weeds about 100 yards away. On that cold, windy day, I never would have stuck it out that long without the nice windbreak. And the shot would have been much harder had my blind not provided the nice rest and eliminated the glare. It has been my experience that, even on the frozen tundra up on the Canadian border where I hunt, as long as you stay out of the wind and wear good long-underwear, headgear, boots, jacket, bibs, etc,.. that a heater is completely unnecessary. I do usually take a thermos of hot cider out there, and one of them chemical handwarmers and that helps on the days that are real cold.
