Orth who took third in the 2015 b b contest lives near detroit and has been hunting waterfowl since he was 14 years old.
Diy duck blind boat.
Materials one 50 inch x 16 foot heavy gauge wire grid cattle panel 20 eight avery realgrass mats or similar blind material 50 pack four 5 foot steel t posts 3 each.
By the time i figured it up i was looking at roughly 75 000 in duck boats and i did not have a single boat that was good in most water fowl hunting scenarios.
Drive your metal t posts into the ground at each corner.
We have a lot of deep water so we get plenty of diving ducks orth said.
Again it s a great boat until the timber gets tight and the water gets shallow.
Floating or ground duck blind be aware before you make this decision that floating duck blinds are generally more difficult and expensive to construct than ground duck blinds once you have established a good spot for hunting observe the changes in water level.
Now 36 he continues to hunt an area of lake st.
Use the last post to create a space for your door placing it about two feet behind the front corner of the blind.
Clair just 20 minutes outside the city.
For a longer duck blind you may want to use three posts on the front and back.
Leave about four feet of the t post above the ground.
Diy duck boat and blind builders has 20 852 members.
The authors unique but effective boat blind.
You can typically look at the shoreline and tell how high and low the water gets throughout the season.
I decided to really take my time and try to create the perfect duck boat.
What follows are instructions on how to build a simple a frame blind for about the cost of a dozen decoys.
Click the link for our duck blind blueprints for this blind to see the specific measurements and pieces we used.