Sportsmen can use them in a variety of configurations. All work better than burlap sacks or raincoats stapled together!Īmong the most popular portable, and even permanent blind materials, artificial or woven natural grass mats look exceptionally good in a brown marsh.
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Many manufacturers sell a variety of portable blinds and blind-making materials to handle diverse hunting situations. Today, hunters do not need to risk the wrath of their parents to make excellent portable blinds. It certainly didn’t hide me from my dad when he discovered what happened to his raincoats! However, woodland green camouflage does not work well in a brown marsh. I sat on my shell bucket and stuck the sticks around me for total concealment. Once, I stapled several camouflaged raincoats to sticks for a temporary blind. Grant Miller (left) and Gerald Fruge take advantage of a log pile to hide from waterfowl in a Southwest Louisiana field. When not falling apart, they stood out in the marsh. As a kid, I experimented with several portable blinds. In fact, they should not look like anything. Good blind materials should closely match surroundings. Unfortunately, good ponds don’t always come equipped with great blind material handy. Using indigenous vegetation for cover, hunters can simply switch to the other side of the pond if the prevailing winds changed. Hunters in permanent blinds watch as ducks sail over their heads to land on the far side of ponds. Often, the wind blows from the wrong direction. Not tied to one location, hunters can move with the ducks or the wind. While not as comfortable as cushy permanent blinds, mobility offered by temporary or natural blinds offer other advantages. Hunters can also hide behind log piles, shoreline debris, rock piles, or similar cover. Ducks grow accustomed to seeing tall weeds in particular areas and think nothing of it.įor example, hunters in flooded timber or high weeds seldom need blinds. No blind made by man can beat natural cover already in place. Even in early season, no blind often makes a better hide than a poorly placed or hidden one. By late season, birds become exceptionally blind wary. In addition, ducks can usually spot big blinds sunk into mud or built up over open waters. A hunter waits for ducks and geese in a makeshift grass blind in Southwest Louisiana.ĭucks quickly learn to detect and avoid permanent blinds. Sometimes, temporary blinds offer better shooting, if less comfort, than permanent blinds. In low marshes, we sat on wooden shell buckets in native grass. Growing up hunting on public land where we could not build blinds, we looked for thick reeds growing in likely hunting spots. They pull their boats under them and climb onto the camouflaged shooting deck. On lakes, people anchor floating blockhouse blinds in open water. Many duck hunters sit comfortably in pit blinds sunk into mud or platform blinds built on stilts in marshes. Bryan Oliver – Quick Hits, Videos, Memes.Babe Winkleman – Good Fishing / Outdoor Secrets.Eddie Claypool – Blue Collar Bowhunting.