Cypress Brake Blind

[HDC]

In the next few weeks, I will be fighting snakes and mosquitos to build a blind in a Cypress Brake. The place where the ducks like to go is fairly open with scattered groups of cypress trees here and there. In fact there is no group of trees close enough to the hole to really hide a traditional rectangular blind.

I am thinking of building the blind around the base of one or two trees and try to make it look like an extra large base. I found a picture of something like that on the internet. I don't know how to post it here, but the site is http://www.wilcoxwebworks.com/hs/2001-2001_achives.htm . If you are interested in looking, go to that site and page down several pictures. You will see what I am talking about.

Anybody got a better idea or pictures of similar type blinds?

[GulfCoast]

Hugh: I don't have any pictures, but I have done it like this at an old lease:

Find a tree with a decent root depression you can stand in to get a little lower. Take rebar and a torch and bend the bars into a almost complete circle about 40" wider than the diameter of the tree. It won't be a total circle since you have to be able to slip it around the tree and leave a door to go in and out. Then weld about 6 rebar legs going straight down from the circle. Take it out there and put it around the tree and you can just push the rebar into the ground to get the height right. Ours was eyeball level sitting down. Then put chicken wire around it, zip tie the chicken wire on, leave a dog hole, and paint the whole mess flat black. We then brushed it out with black zip ties, old whethered planks, buck brush, dead grass, and draped the whole thing with moss. Looked decent, worked well, and you could move the frame easy if you needed too. We just nailed seats to the tree. Worked o.k. for 2 guys and a dog.

[jstanard]

I had to look hard for the picture you were referring to. Is this the one?


By the way, That's a great site. It's got me fired up for bow season!

[ July 25, 2002: Message edited by: jstanard ]

[HDC]

That's it. Is that a great blind or what.

[Jim]

I wanna SEE you fight with a SNAKE!
(no fair using sticks you the human you got the advantage)

That blind is totally AWESOME

Whoever built it either was lucky or they flat booty know what they doing.

I love indigenous blinds.

It depends on how much water you have.

If you can stand in it, then rock the bottom and cover it with old carpet so it dont sink.

As for cover, it depends on what is there around you to make that decision if you ask me.

4 inch mesh wire staked around you and stuffed with just about whatever is around so it dont look STUFFED will work real good prolly.

My next venture along those lines is going to be a stick hut that just looks like a big old beaver hut. They dont pay any attention to them because hunters dont make blinds look like huts and they see them all the TIME, I mean all the TIME.

Beaver huts can get as big a three pickups, so even a large blind aint gonna alert them to it.

Plus I like the idea that the dam dog can just sit on the outside of it, because they look a lot like a dam beaver far away and if they see it, it will probably only server to reassure them until it's too late HEHEHEHEHE

But that blind pic you posted is hard to beat. That is one fine lookin blind if I do say so myself.

[HDC]

I been thinking about a beaver dam stick hut blind, too. There is one in the brake that I am talking about and it is built up against an old cypress stump. Only problem, it aint where the ducks like to go.

The water is 4'to 7' where the ducks want to go, so I was thinking using 4x4's to built a platform against a tree then shape the whole thing to look like a beaver hut and cover the outside with sticks and logs I can pull off the nearby hut.

What ya think about that?

[Jim]

In fluctuating water like that I would go with a floating contraption and have thought long and hard how to do that.

Another good thing about that is you can move it around to wherever they like it TODAY.

35 gallon roundup jugs with some kind of cheap wooden frame built over them kind of like a floating pier or something would give you a good base to start stackin sticks on.

Beaver huts come apart the same way they go together, one stick at a time. You can stack damn near a whole hut in a boat if you just set them in there and stack them up.

then move them to your blind and make a pixie stick pile out of it.

Dont worry they will build another one HEHEHEHE.

[Bent Barrell]

Damn boys ya'll gotta stop doin' this to me. that is a hell of a blind. [img]images/smiles/icon_cool.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_cool.gif[/img]

[mississippi_duc_htr]

HDC the only problem I can see with the beaver hut blind is your gonna run yourself ragged trying to keep the cover If them beavers ever figure out where their home is going you may have a fight on your hands.hehehehehe you'll probly have to rebuild it every morning.hehehehehe [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]