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Who here makes their own duck blinds?
Posted on 11/13/13 at 9:48 am
Posted on 11/13/13 at 9:48 am
Do you have already built shooting platforms that you brush up, or do you hunt in a brushed up pit or boat?
Or
Do you make your own blinds out of cut down tree limbs, etc?
Our ponds are surrounded by willows, so we cut willows down at about shoulder height and lay over the tops of those willows cross ways and brush up our blind that way. We stand in the mud like real men. 100% all natural commando style.
Just trying to separate the blue collar duck hunters from the spoiled ones.
Or
Do you make your own blinds out of cut down tree limbs, etc?
Our ponds are surrounded by willows, so we cut willows down at about shoulder height and lay over the tops of those willows cross ways and brush up our blind that way. We stand in the mud like real men. 100% all natural commando style.
Just trying to separate the blue collar duck hunters from the spoiled ones.
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Posted on 11/13/13 at 9:51 am to TXGunslinger10
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Do you make your own blinds out of cut down tree limbs, etc?
I do this. On public land.
Not sure if this makes me better, or worse than those with the built blinds on private leases though
Posted on 11/13/13 at 9:53 am to TXGunslinger10
Built one out of mostly 2x4s a couple weekends ago
4'x 10', with a standing platform about 6" above the water.
We built it in the middle of a little pod of roseaus and whips, but used some fast grass to help brush the blind itself
Came out pretty damn good
4'x 10', with a standing platform about 6" above the water.
We built it in the middle of a little pod of roseaus and whips, but used some fast grass to help brush the blind itself
Came out pretty damn good
This post was edited on 11/13/13 at 9:54 am
Posted on 11/13/13 at 9:55 am to TXGunslinger10
In the timber I lean up next to a tree the entire time.
In small water I just sit down behind a little brush.
In my rice field I hunt cadillac out of pit blinds.
I dont put too much stock in being 100% (overly) concealed besides the obvious keeping still and head down. If those bastards are close enough to identify me and haul arse, I should have been making it rain.
In small water I just sit down behind a little brush.
In my rice field I hunt cadillac out of pit blinds.
I dont put too much stock in being 100% (overly) concealed besides the obvious keeping still and head down. If those bastards are close enough to identify me and haul arse, I should have been making it rain.
Posted on 11/13/13 at 10:03 am to TXGunslinger10
Hand made boat blind. Bent some 1" EMT for the frame then brushed with fastgrass and camo netting.
Posted on 11/13/13 at 10:03 am to Salmon
Yeah. I realize the question is subjective, because rice field hunters really don't have much of a choice, but I was just curious if anybody went the natural route like we do at our lease.
I've only hunted out of a platform blind once in my life
I've only hunted out of a platform blind once in my life
This post was edited on 11/13/13 at 10:05 am
Posted on 11/13/13 at 10:04 am to Polar Pop
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In the timber I lean up next to a tree the entire time.
In small water I just sit down behind a little brush.
this. though i never hunt from the boat and never with more than 2 people so i think that helps me out a lot.
i'm not a very good duck hunter though so sometimes i wonder if i ought to be making more of an effort to be concealed. i've watched a bunch of timber hunts on youtube though where there were 4-6 hunters just standing up next to trees in some pretty open timber, so i can't be that far off.
Posted on 11/13/13 at 10:04 am to TXGunslinger10
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We stand in the mud like real men. 100% all natural commando style.
I sit in a dry blind with hot bacon and eggs like a smart man.
Posted on 11/13/13 at 10:05 am to 34venture
Like a spoiled man.
Posted on 11/13/13 at 10:06 am to gorillacoco
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i've watched a bunch of timber hunts on youtube though where there were 4-6 hunters just standing up next to trees
Everyone I hunt timber with in Arkansas is over 50 years old. They stand next to a tree, hat on (no facemask or paint), one glove (one bare hand for calling), profit every time.
Posted on 11/13/13 at 10:06 am to TXGunslinger10
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Like a spoiled man.
Call me what you like, but don't call me late for breakfast.
Posted on 11/13/13 at 10:10 am to TXGunslinger10
I have to say i am jealous as hell of you rice field hunters. Takes me some long hikes/boat rides in the dark to get where I hunt.
Posted on 11/13/13 at 10:14 am to TXGunslinger10
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This post was edited on 11/13/13 at 10:16 am
Posted on 11/13/13 at 10:18 am to Polar Pop
I enjoy being warm and dry in the boat. We can change just a few items and blend in anywhere there is water to float on. We hunt mainly in the marsh and you will sink your arse in many places if you have to get out of the boat.
Posted on 11/13/13 at 10:23 am to 34venture
Little of both. We have blinds we built that are nice and dry with kitchens on the land we own. Just lean up in the trees when we hunt some holes on the public land. Hot bacon and eggs is quite nice in the morning hunting the Cadillac blinds. Then we cook a gumbo or jambalaya for lunch and hunt til around two. Catch a few bunches of late flying mallards. Profit.
Posted on 11/13/13 at 11:14 am to MallardMaster
I do whatever it takes. If I see birds going somewhere I build the best blind for the scenario.
If it looks like a blind it is not a good blind. (Sig quote material there$$$)
If it looks like a blind it is not a good blind. (Sig quote material there$$$)
Posted on 11/13/13 at 11:50 am to TXGunslinger10
I'm on a duck/teal/goose lease, so all the lease members build several blinds for everybody to use.
We typically build them in the water, from shin to middle thigh deep, out of what is essentially welded wire fencing. We attached the fencing to metal posts we drive into the ground. We then use natural brush to cover the blinds.
We don't hunt out of boats.
We typically build them in the water, from shin to middle thigh deep, out of what is essentially welded wire fencing. We attached the fencing to metal posts we drive into the ground. We then use natural brush to cover the blinds.
We don't hunt out of boats.
Posted on 11/13/13 at 11:51 am to TXGunslinger10
Platform on public lake, live and die by brush. If you think you have enough cut some more.
Posted on 11/13/13 at 11:54 am to 34venture
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I sit in a dry blind with hot bacon and eggs like a smart man.
Just curious, a Coleman stove or other? We pulled an old stove/oven out of a camper. We have 3 30 gal tanks going most of the time. 2 for heat and one for eat...Posted on 11/13/13 at 12:13 pm to TXGunslinger10
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Just trying to separate the blue collar duck hunters from the spoiled ones.
I camo-up and hide in the brush.
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