Boat blind ideas?

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D. Hinton

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I have an 18x54 boat , looking at building a blind for it .
I hunted out of a boat years ago with a Bert Flemming blind and really like it. But can’t find any pictures of one
Hunting bigger rivers and timber
 
D. Hinton said:
I have an 18x54 boat , looking at building a blind for it .
I hunted out of a boat years ago with a Bert Flemming blind and really like it. But can’t find any pictures of one
Hunting bigger rivers and timber
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Commercial blinds by Beavertail & Mud buddy work good. If you hunt with a dog you'll need to add a dog door in beavertail. If building yourself build something along lines of Mud Buddy style as its easiest to construct. The important thing on any of them is to have your brushing close in over shoot slot which is easy enough to do with either artificial or natural brushing. A product called blind grass works great as your exterior grassing. Synthetic so it doesn,t soak up water and lasts a long,long time.
 
I’ve always went with homemade blind made with conduit, pvc and with camo netting or Cerex. Diagrams should be in the resources. 1/4 the price of commercial blinds and just as easy or easier to use.
 
If you design and build your own the design will largely be driven by your building capabilities. For example, do you have a tube bender? What are your skillset and resources? Are you more of a canvas type, wood guy, or sheet metal fabricator?
 
Thanks for the replies . I’ll check out the mud buddy blind, but if I’m really considering building my own
 
If you build and decide to cover with Cordura Nylon Ebay is your friend. Usually there deals on there buying Cordura buy the yard. I've built several thru the years for various boats and you want someone who can sew. Fortunately I've convinced my wife to handle that area after I design and cut out patterns. Mudbuddy use to have a mounting tutorial on utube that gives some very good info on frame design if you watch carefully.
 
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