mine is a 6'x30' piece of die cut camo fabric, stapled to several 6' 1"x1" clear pine poles with a t50 stapler. in soft ground you push the poles into mud with the tops leaned in. from a short distance you look just like a big stump on beach

 

I just have a turkey blind, the kind with 5 fiberglass poles and camo fabric attached. Then I sit in a turkey chair. The blind just rolls up and is light.

 

I just use a rollup with camo netting strung between 1/2 conduit poles I painted brown. I tied some raffie grass to it too. I really only use it if there isn't any other cover.

 

why not just use a layout blind??

 

I've heard of hay bale blinds.........
maybe we should have a contest for the best pic of a portable Stump Blind.

Personally where ever possible I like to push willows in the mud.
And my hope is that come spring some of them will root and take hold.
Hunt'nFish

 

Personally where ever possible I like to push willows in the mud.
And my hope is that come spring some of them will root and take hold.
Hunt'nFish

Bingo... In the next 3-5 years I should have quite a few perfectly natural willow blinds.... I do my share of trimming and planting...

It would be fun to see what people could come up with as far as blinds go...

Keith

 

Keith,

I just always use my marshrat with flip open doors. It wasn't as comfortable as sitting on a stool in a blind, but it sure was effective. The other downside was rain in my face on wet days. But what a fun way to kill ducks right in your face.

Aaron

 

Keith,

I just always use my marshrat with flip open doors. It wasn't as comfortable as sitting on a stool in a blind, but it sure was effective. The other downside was rain in my face on wet days. But what a fun way to kill ducks right in your face.

Aaron

This is something that is a blast, I don't have doors yet for my marsh rat but it works well with a bunch of grass inside and covering your body....

My laziness has me thinking I could easily erect a small blind, grab my chair or bucket and sit patiently and wait.... The biggest thing is having some sort of over hanging cover... I hate it when the ducks can look down in as that's when they usually flare the most...

Keith

 

In the old days I used to lay in the mud with some grass covering my legs & torso.........Then I got old & bought a layout blind.

They also make a coffin like "tub with a flip up lid, that was good in muddy water. It as slow to come out of, but when the birds are 10' away, who cares!!

 

I built a blind out of pvc and burlap. Then sewed twine all around it to attach grass too and painted it. It is very light, about 4'x4'x4'. I use a turkey chair in it in order to keep the height low. It has 3 sides and a roof with a overhang in the front to help cover me. It works good. I could take some pics of it sometime if you want. Or I could meet you somewhere in Vancouver if you want to take a look at it.

 

I wonder how the Ameristep 2man Portable Blind would work?
Maybe tweaked w/ a bit of natural native grass.

I believe Fishermans carries these.
Hunt'nFish

 

I wonder how the Ameristep 2man Portable Blind would work?
Maybe tweaked w/ a bit of natural native grass.

I believe Fishermans carries these.
Hunt'nFish

ive used the single chair for turkey and ducks. works great. im afraid with out ear protection you'd get rang out pretty quick two guys at three shots a peice.

 

http://www.aerooutdoors.com/products/blinds/duckmodular.html

ive got one, use it on the cr up here and lower cr. two guys can pick it up and move it 20 yards with full dressings in seconds. pretty fun to hunt out of cause your couped up.

 

Keith, OR.......instead of chicken wire (which doesn't like salt) you could use that black mesh that they put up around construction sites.
Ty-Rap on your grass....same as the Chicken wire.
I think it would work well on layout boats equally well.

You dream up the best shape. Two panels front back w/ a small slit down the top. Or, a dome shape, square, etc. Use cariberner clips to join panels. Possiblities are limitless.
Hunt'nFish

 

Keith, OR.......instead of chicken wire (which doesn't like salt) you could use that black mesh that they put up around construction sites.
Ty-Rap on your grass....same as the Chicken wire.
I think it would work well on layout boats equally well.

You dream up the best shape. Two panels front back w/ a small slit down the top. Or, a dome shape, square, etc. Use cariberner clips to join panels. Possiblities are limitless.
Hunt'nFish


Where can you get the plastic chicken wire?

 

There is a blind in the LC that i made by cutting and replanting willows.All i have to do is trim it at the start of season.

 

Keith, you can get it at Lowes or H.Depot but they don't always have black.
For stakes, they make those fiberglass/plastic coated plant stakes for the garden. They are textured to grasp wist wires and such...which means ty-raps lock on them well. They come in upto 6ft lengths so you should be able to zip-tye up something that will stick into the mud easily enough.
IMO, two semi-circles at 45 degree angle put front to back, w/ a slit down the top, should do nicely.
Should roll right up nicely. You can ty-rap it to the stakes in the field. Ty-raps are cheap enough for one time use.


Paul, thank you for planting willows w/ the rest of us.
Hunt'nFish

 

Hehe, I don't know IF they still make/sell it or not, but...

G&H Decoys used to make a (somewhat) portable plastic Tree Stump that you could hide in.

It was large enough for a single hunter to sit, on a seat or stool, in and looked like it would be pretty effective along river banks or areas that had some timber.

I've also seen for sale within the past 10 years a 2-man fiberglass "Cow" Blind. I'd often thought about how effective this would be, especially in places like eastern Oregon & Washington after some periods of sustained snow. Often the snow forms a thick, icy crust over it and farmers put their cows out to feed in cut or semi-harvested corn fields and circles. The Ducks and Geese know that the cattle punch through the crust while feeding so it's really common to see large flocks of Geese zeroing in on feeding cattle to get their grub.

Another idea we had for a blind one time, although we never acted on it was to build a knock-down Tractor Blind. We used to hunt in some totally bare fields that were of several different types. There was NO place to hide. But we'd often see crawler tractors parked out in the middle of these fields with Geese all around them. Our idea was to make a box blind out of sheets of plywood that would use door hinges in the corners that we could set up/take down in a hurry. Do a nice job of painting it Catepillar Yellow and painting in track details in black, then dirty it up a bit with some mud...why not? :shrug:

I realize this got a little O.T. for your Tidal Marsh Blind discussion, but just throwing some various "fun" ideas out there. :wink:

:cheers:

 

I kill a lot of birds each season after everyone else has gone home. That's all I can say at this point or my buddies will kill me.

 

Explain....what do you mean?

 

He means that really all you have to do is HOLD STILL.

When there's 4 guys and 3 dogs in a blind, there's a much higher chance of a dog or hunter MOVING (I'm developing Bill's method of posting, apparently), and the that flairing the birds. The odds get worse as your cover decreases. Then all those hands "creeping" for the gun or dogs' (and hunters') heads turning to watch the birds are even more easily seen.

 

He means that really all you have to do is HOLD STILL.

When there's 4 guys and 3 dogs in a blind, there's a much higher chance of a dog or hunter MOVING (I'm developing Bill's method of posting, apparently), and the that flairing the birds. The odds get worse as your cover decreases. Then all those hands "creeping" for the gun or dogs' (and hunters') heads turning to watch the birds are even more easily seen.

Exactly... That's the issue I'm trying to over come in the areas of very little cover where the birds are stacking...

We haven't had problems killing birds, limits the last couple times out but it's taking longer than I want it to and a handful of flocks are getting flared....

Keith

 

Never saw a bird flare because of the dog, people yes.