Something I’ve started doing this year (with varying success, so the verdict is still out) is ground hunting under a poncho when it’s raining. The spots I’ve been hunting are harder to reach public land, some WMA, some TVA by boat and a couple small tracts of private land.

I’m not going to lug a ground blind all the way to these places, so I’ve been setting up my military camo poncho up between three trees, either in the ledges on the mountain side or in some kind of cover like a tree top. I’ve also been using a piece of camo net as a little extra cover. You can stay pretty well concealed and dry when it’s raining. So far I’ve done this three times this year in a constant rain and haven’t gotten wet yet. It all wads up in a sack about the size of a football and weighs about a pound.

Here’s what it looks like. https://youtu.be/TAs7wAKPvOA