Great photos Bob! I am always amazed at how flat it is out there. I grew up in N/W Ohio where it's very flat, but now that I've been here in Maine for 20 years, I tend to forget how open and flat other states are.
I have two portable blinds, one one man and one two man blinds. The one man is 4 feet by 4 feet and 56 inches high. The two man is 6 feet long, 4 feet deep and 56 inches high. I welded those frames up 37 years ago and put "Jute Netting" WW2 camo netting on both of them, that old netting wears like iron!
After 36 years of use the Jute Netting was wearing thin so I revamped my two man blind with some new camo at the start of this past season. The two man blind is the one in the photos above.
I used steel tubing, it has no seems in it, this way it cuts down on the overall weight of the blind. I used 5/8th's round steel tubing for the frame.
Bob A.
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That old camo from WW2 was made to last! I bought a bale of it, enough to camo my whole house & then some! I gave tons of it away to other crow hunters over the past 20 odd years to make blinds for themselves. I bought it from an Army Surplus Store back in 1974. It was new, never used, but was still almost 30 years old when I bought it! It's been in & out of the truck hundreds of times over the years and it just keeps holding up!
Bob A.
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That old camo from WW2 was made to last! I bought a bale of it, enough to camo my whole house & then some! I gave tons of it away to other crow hunters over the past 20 odd years to make blinds for themselves. I bought it from an Army Surplus Store back in 1974. It was new, never used, but was still almost 30 years old when I bought it! It's been in & out of the truck hundreds of times over the years and it just keeps holding up!
Bob A.
A prime example of AMERICAN ingenuity at its best!
Are they welded solid or can you take them apart? 4' X 6' seems as it would be crowded for two, but with all the crows you and Dick have killed from it I guess it works well. I am thinking of a three man blind that two adults and one child could hunt. May be two facing one way and the third in the middle facing the other. Any suggestions?
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"If money can fix it, it ain't broke" The great theologian and my crow hunting partner AW.
If you make the blind for three it's just to big, the crows pick it out! The two man blind that is 6 feet long is plenty wide for two medium built guys like Dick & I.
Yes, the blind is welded together but it folds up so I can slide it onto a shelf inside my topper. The four foot sections fold inward against the one 6 foot piece, then I slap the back (another 6 foot piece) on and slide it into the truck.
Bob A.
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Sounds good. What I think I will do is build a 4x6 and a 4x4 as you did and if there are three of us hunting we will take both blinds and sit apart. That should work.
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"If money can fix it, it ain't broke" The great theologian and my crow hunting partner AW.
I can see fairly well through some of the gaps in the netting when I am sitting down. I have the brush high enough where all you see is my head when I'm standing straight up. (do you have either The Art of Crow Hunting or Crow Shooting in dvd?) you can see how I operate in both of these productions sold at the Crowmart Store.
When I am standing straight up and I spot a crow coming in I just ease down, no sudden movement! More times than most they will not spot you like that.
Bob A.
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