Duck boat build - need camo material

[thebaron]

Hey all,

Im in the process of building a mid boat. Have amid motor kit on the way!

I've got a 1230 Jon Boat that I'm building a scissor blind. I need a good material to use for camo that will fold up nice for travel and won't fly all over the damn place when I haul the boat down the road.

What's everyone using? I hunt in a swamp full of reeds (cat tails)

I would prefer a synthetic material.

 

[hoytcanon]

I used canvas and backed it with burlap on which I painted light and dark reed shapes... mine is on a 16 Scott Deep Duckboat... I mounted brackets to the back of the seats to hold vertical square aluminum tubing with U-shaped brackets on top to receive the horizontal frame... the frame is aluminum tubing... the ends of the horizontal frame fold on a hinge in to the center of the boat. The canvas pannels have a tunnel sewn in to the top so they can sleeve onto the frame, and there is a tunnel pocket on the bottom, into which I inserted doubled flat strip decoy weights every 18" and sewed them into place, to keep it from blowing in the wind. We just motor into a weed bed, lift the blind onto the vertical arms, flip the ends out and spread the panels evenly... takes under two minutes.



Here is an older less refined version of the same concept (different blind, different boat);

 

[M12shooter]

My goodness Hoytcannon I love your boat blind! Such a simple design but effective, think I'm going to use your idea to put something together like that for myself. You can hang onto the whistlers though!

 

[sunray]

Burlap can be had by the yard in garden shops. 40" x 100' runs $32.99 in Home Depot.

 

[the spank]

My goodness Hoytcannon I love your boat blind! Such a simple design but effective, think I'm going to use your idea to put something together like that for myself. You can hang onto the whistlers though!

Thats all there is to shoot at in that neck of the woods by mid October, lol. Since moving to the prairies I havent shot at many birds that don't have green or chestnut brown/white heads. There is no reason to!! LOL

And I agree, looks good Hoyt!

 

[hoytcanon]

Thats all there is to shoot at in that neck of the woods by mid October....

Yep... that hunt was the end of November... nailed a couple fat blacks just before we picked up the decoys. By the end of November there are a few mallards and blacks left, but mostly whistlers, bufflehead, hoodies, a few bluebills.

 

[Jim870]

Nice simple set up, I like it. I also love late season divers, and to our western friends if you have never chased divers but enjoy wingshooting you owe it to yourself to try them. Redheads and Canvasbacks are culinary rivals of mallards and pintails. I am also fortunate to hunt a lot of wild rice marshes so most of my ducks taste excellent. I also would have a hard time passing up all the widgeon, gadwall and teal that reside in the prairies.

 

[the spank]

Nice simple set up, I like it. I also love late season divers, and to our western friends if you have never chased divers but enjoy wingshooting you owe it to yourself to try them. Redheads and Canvasbacks are culinary rivals of mallards and pintails. I am also fortunate to hunt a lot of wild rice marshes so most of my ducks taste excellent. I also would have a hard time passing up all the widgeon, gadwall and teal that reside in the prairies.

I was like that first season here too but hunting water here is almost non-existent. Only the tourists going to outfitters seem to do any. My floater decoys have not seen water since 2012.