Is anyone out there making their own blinds?  I was searching on camo fabrics and it looks like a guy could do one pretty cheap - if you had the right support structure...

Bert, good question! I have been wondering the same and almost posted.

Have you seen the vid, Hidden Hunter, Dirk Ross?

I'm sure some, who have been on here for awhile have asked, and someone has built! I would believe this is where the start of the Double Bull blinds evolved.

I like to use the leafy camo netting ...not the stuff that looks like window screen because the holes in the leafy stuff allow you to tie real branches to the material  or just poke them down into the ground through the holes. Still, I think the very best blinds are built from all natural materials taken from the spot the blind will be located in.

What I do is use fence blinds.  Rather inexpensive per roll and you can custom size each one.  I use the cheaper like large chicken whire fence. wrap it aroung to the size you need for each spot.  your can tie natural branches to or weave weeds through fencing.  cut windows in fence for shooting and you can add a tarp over the top peak style if you wand it shaded in (set shooting windows North or South so sun is always on the tarp keeping blind dark inside). the peak in the tarp /\\ allows you to shoot the longest of bows with no issue of hitting the roof.  I then take cheep $1 store sheets (black) to hang inside the blind oposite the shooting window(s) I've cut. Very versitile to area and bows and if someone does steel it your out maybe $20 per blind.

been pondering this myself. trying to think of a way to make a small, portable blind to incorperate into the suroundings. love my groundmax blind but sometimes too much. need something smaller to pack in and have if needed.

I made mine out of sections cut from concrete wire and leafy camo cloth. I cut the 5 sections about 18 inches wide then zip tied them together. They will fold up like an accordion for easy carrying. I zip tied the material to it. I cut the bottom of the wire so each square leaves a straight piece of wire sticking down. It's easy to adjust the height by cutting it off where you want it. The straight pieces are used to stick into the ground. When it's folded up I use a long strap with two slip loops on either end to slide over the blind and sling it over my shoulder.
Piece of cake! If I can build it, anyone can!
God bless,Mudd

QuoteOriginally posted by Mudd:
I made mine out of sections cut from concrete wire and leafy camo cloth. I cut the 5 sections about 18 inches wide then zip tied them together. They will fold up like an accordion for easy carrying. I zip tied the material to it. I cut the bottom of the wire so each square leaves a straight piece of wire sticking down. It's easy to adjust the height by cutting it off where you want it. The straight pieces are used to stick into the ground. When it's folded up I use a long strap with two slip loops on either end to slide over the blind and sling it over my shoulder.
Piece of cake! If I can build it, anyone can!
God bless,Mudd

Can you post a picture Mudd?? Sounds kinda' what I've been kicking around in my mind.

THANKS!

Andrew

I'll get one as soon as I can. I have hopes it will be as soon as tomorrow but I'd hate to promise it and then not come through.
God bless,Mudd

Here you go!
There two problems with these pictures.
The 1st one is I'm not the photographer in the family.
The second is, it's a blind and by nature hard to see...lol

 

Watched a show on turkey hunting and the guy used a pvc blind.
Had a piece of material with the ends sewed over in which he ran 1/2" pvc put a cross piece 1/3 down that he put a t on for a support.
You need 3T's and 4 90's with 3 cross and 2 down pieces. Can make as wide as you want with the cross pieces and material. place a slit in the top section to shoot thru. sounds hard but simple and he shot turkeys with a bow so they work.

SORRY no pictures.
Tim

Fred Meyer, Wal Mart, etc...  have in the garden department a kind of folding trellis made out of bamboo or willow it looks like.  Light weight and expandable, 4 to 8 feet tall.

One, or a couple of them expanded out and covered with the camo cloth, or filled with branches would be light and portable as anything.  Plenty of holes to see through and shooting holes pretty easy as well.

I made one similar to Mudd's after seeing his. Used it this season on a hunt with Mudd & had 2 small bucks get within 12 yds. & didn't have any idea I was there. Well one did after I shot a limb in front of him. Still didn't see me till I killed a tree next to him! They really do work good & are easy to pack in , easy to set up & very light.

I went ice fishing for the first time today.  While my friend was taking his shanty down I was helping, well, watching really.  Anyway, it looked like it was conduit just bent to make the two sides, sort of an upside down U shape.  Then there were some poles that fit in between to give it some support.  I thought to myslef, that would work for a blind, just need different fabric on the outside.  Just a thought.  Oh, and we iced 8 fish.  7 bass and one northern!

-Jeremy