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Hey guys i was wondering if you have any thoughts on the best way to build a permanent duck blind? I have a very big marsh area with piles of birds to hunt next year and want to build a few blinds in there. I have thoughts of styrafoam and wooden floating platform and I also have thoughts of 4" PVC pipe. It would be nice to have a floating blind as it would keep you dry. Water is only up over my knees at the deepest part. Any thoughts would be great. I figure I should have it big enough for 5 guys in it. | ||
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Well there are some blind available for sale, tanks and pits that you'd bury with a backhoe. Or, you could construct free standing on poles-wood frame blinds that you'd drag or carry into place that would stand above the water line, stake in place and be removeable at a later date? My gut reaction to the thought of a blind that would hold five hunters was don't! Double blinds are easier to conceal, spread hunting pressure around the marsh and don't limit friendly cameraderie since you're all hunting within some kind of hailing distance and will have the opportunity to rib each other before and after the hunt. I'd probably frame a box mebbe 3-wide, 8'long, 4'tall and standing on say six posts all about 3' tall which make the blind more or less 7'total height. I'd camoflage the daylights out of it with natural cover and probably construct some kind of bench seat, dog hatch, wind screen/ rain cover for the back wall and a center mounted gun rack. In Dillingham AK, $350.00- $450.00 in material and a half days labor. | |||
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If your water level is relatively constant a submerged barrel blind works great. Deep enough that when seated you can see out, rim a few inches above water, top made out of large hoop covered with chicken wire, pivot behind your head so it swings to the side. Can be made large enough for 2 but beyond that would be a bit crowded. We fitted a steel lid that hooked on an eye and was slid over the barrel to keep out rain and critters when not in use. We would leave several sacks of decoys in each barrel around the pond. We killed a lot of ducks from this type of blind, the birds would almost land on them. C.G.B. | |||
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Not sure if you have access to heavy machinery, but I've hunted out of permanent blinds made of concrete septic tanks. They work a charm, though a sump pump hooked to a car battery was helpful in getting the inch of water out of the bottom each morning. And yes, they were new, unused ones.  ______________________ Hunting: I'd kill to participate. | |||
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I've built many permanant blinds over the years, from simple to hotels. Enclosed foam is good if you use it correctly. Wrong and you may flip the blind with you in it. If you can sink steel pipe on one side and tap in the other side with a way to pull it up and turn the blind for the correct wind, it works great. I have pics of the last hotel we built. I can email you pics if you want. Cheers, David Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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I am all open to suggestions and therea re some great ideas here. I think the best thing to do is have a floating system and have it where I can move it if needs be just in case I am not in the perfect spot and then try it for a year till i find the right spot to make it more solid. David I would love some pics. Phil@deansoutdoor.com Any ideas are welcome guys. I have access to some 30 and 45 gallon drums as well and could build a frame and then a dock ontop of it. I was thinking of having it staked down inside the frame but loose so it can float on the water and move up and down with the fluctuaton in water levels. | |||
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Phil, sent you a few pics. Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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got them. much appreciated. what a beast of a duck blind. I think you could sleep a basketball team in that thing!!!!!!! | |||
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Yes, LDK is not known for his association with any Mickey Mouse shooting blinds. ______________________ Hunting: I'd kill to participate. | |||
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