Homemade layout blind - who has made one?

[daveg01]

Goose opens this week and I want to make a homemade layout blind. I have some steel poles already bent in the shape I need, and some surplus camo material.

Anyone else tried this route? I'm too cheap to buy one

 

[daveg01]

So from the flood or responses I'll take it that no one has tried this before

Here are some pictures of the finished product. It's a bit bulky but I think it will work.

It sort of folds up by disconnecting the poles. Anyways it will fit in my little truck.

The bottom is an old camo tarp I cut so it should be ok on wet or muddy ground. The rest is the left overs of an old pop up ground blind and the top is a camo net I picked up at Walmart for $20. I used some old fiberglass tent poles (from a dome tent) to make the edge of the netting rigid so it will be easier to flip it open. The frame is from an old car port type shelter.

The fabric/tarp is held together with black hockey tape wrapped around the metal poles.

I will post back if actually works.

 

[Dukester]

I use a plastic CTC toboggan (18$) and camo sheets depending on the field.

A greeny one for winter wheat, browny one for corn and whitey one for the white stuff.

Nice pillows to prop my fat arse up.

Can throw ammo/gun/silos etc.. in it and away we go!

 

[M12shooter]

We used to construct stuff like that back in the day when there was no Cabelas, Wholesale, etc... I'm sure your creation will work just fine...and think of the satisfaction you will get from it. Just like hand crafting your own wooden decoys and shooting a limit of mallards over them!

 

[fratri]

I am using an old lawn chair, camo it up with camo mesh from walmart, it looks good I think it will work well...I also like that sled idea, I have a hard plastic one that I use for ice fishing and doubles as my sled for pulling out my decoys, I think I might just camo it up and use that...

 

[greywolf]

You can buy all the current camo's in burlap from cabela's or wholesale. I bought a bunch of it, and I have some old kitchen shelter aluminum poles that i'll get my friend to bend for me into shape and some rubber sheeting for the bottom , etc .... I bet I can come up with close to what they sell. I've been wanting to do this for some time , nice to see someone else doing it as well

 

[Workin Man]

Daveg01, don't forget to mud the fabric before you take it out. I have some of the same camo sheeting you are using and some birds seemed wary of it till it was mudded. Otherwise, looks good.

Jim

 

[daveg01]

Daveg01, don't forget to mud the fabric before you take it out. I have some of the same camo sheeting you are using and some birds seemed wary of it till it was mudded. Otherwise, looks good.

Jim

Thanks - I was going to add some grass, corn stalks, etc to the fabric too.

 

[ciphery]

I went ultra cheap.
Heavy white blanket @ value village -4.99
Foam yoga mat @ value village -$3.99
Then I hot glued some corn husks and cobs to it from yonder goose field
Its a bit cumbersome to set up and peel the blanket away for a fast shot. I'm going to redesign it by splitting the blanket down the middle and using magnets to hold it together. Thought about the tobogan too but can't find one big enough.....it also needs to fit in the back of my car so folding would be better

 

[smokingun]

I went ultra cheap.
Heavy white blanket @ value village -4.99
Foam yoga mat @ value village -$3.99
Then I hot glued some corn husks and cobs to it from yonder goose field
Its a bit cumbersome to set up and peel the blanket away for a fast shot. I'm going to redesign it by splitting the blanket down the middle and using magnets to hold it together. Thought about the tobogan too but can't find one big enough.....it also needs to fit in the back of my car so folding would be better

I did something very similar with a yoga type mat, but used burlap instead of a blanket and zip ties instead of glue. As far as the tobogan idea goes, try one of the type used for ice fishing but cut the back out so your legs can stick out.