Portable blind and a good morning hunt.

[Robert L E]

I know that other hunters walk in to hunt too. This rig has worked well for us, it is portable, and, like me, is cheap.
I like it a whole lot better than lying on the ground.

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My older son on right and his buddy in blind that we've been using for several years. It is just cheap burlap
hung over stakes in the ground.


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The stakes in the back are about 5' long and the ones in the front about 4'. There is a common galvanized
flat head nail in the top end of each 3/4" square stake. The nails stick up about 1/2" and easily poke through
the burlap so it can be hung any way we like. The bottom ends of the stakes are pointed.


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This shows how I carry the blind, two shotguns, two of the buckets along with the stuff in the buckets. It works slick.
I carried this fairly heavy load 1/2 mile down the dike and back again today and kept up with the boys while doing it.
The buckets are, of course, used as seats in the blind. I cut the ears off of the lids so that the are easier to put on and take off.


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Attaching the buckets to the pack frame is simplicity itself. The buckets slip into the heavy wire loops and are held in
place by gravity. The burlap is rolled around the stakes and, along with the two shotguns, attached above the buckets
with bungee cords.




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You can see that we had a pretty good morning hunt. One ring neck, two teal, and four mallards. The mallards were great.
We called at a high flock of about 30 that seemed like it was ignoring us. We got them to come back to us from quite a distance.
We waited to shoot until four or five had landed in the decoys. This made the day.

A tip- Have the boys do the wading and also put duct tape (in this pic)
around their ankles before they put on the waders. Their pants do not ride up when they pull the waders on.

This is a great day for me anyway.


Bob

 

[Charlie S and Titan]

Robert,

Great setup.

I use something similar I made (it's shorter and the wood posts are less sturdy) for turkey hunting.

Charlie

 

[Denny R]

Thanks for the pics. I like the way you transport your gear, especially the buckets.
denny

 

[Robert L E]

Thanks for the comments.

I forgot to mention that the 5 gallon buckets do not meet the Stanley vacuum bottle size test. You have to remove the cup or the bucket lid will not fit on. I have a 7 gallon bucket and I'll see if I can't find another to replace the two 5's that I've been using. An advantage of the taller sized bucket, besides holding more, would be a better seating position and my old knees would like that better.

I also would probably leave 3, equally spaced, latching tabs on the lids instead of cutting all of them off. The lid would then lock on but would still be easy to remove.

Bob