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Offline Mfowl

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Re: Frustrating, but it beats work
« Reply #15 on: December 01, 2014, 04:41:32 PM »
Have you considered adding a roof of some sort to the blind. It may look good at ground level but from the air it may look like a box with a hunter in it. Consider using some camo netting or wire mesh that you can bring out and use the available vegetation to cover you from above. Also try putting your dekes out away from the blind to keep the birds attention there and not on you. It sounds like the birds are in a pattern and wise to the blind. A weather pattern that disrupts them could be good too. Its always frustrating setting up next to a "black hole" of real birds. Good luck!
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Re: Frustrating, but it beats work
« Reply #16 on: December 01, 2014, 06:30:12 PM »
Grass the piss out of the blind so you can barely see out. I would also use a pull string and toss the wind power. We hunt a club that the blinds never move, it gets hunted literally everyday. Still shoots great.


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Re: Frustrating, but it beats work
« Reply #17 on: December 01, 2014, 07:30:02 PM »
Yep.  But it's a standard WDFW provided metal pole, wire and fake grass blind. 

“Hunting is restricted to the blind.”

Pretty obvious they've been burnt off that blind by previous hunters, no doubt sky busters or very poor shots since dead ducks have a hard time remembering .
Also, just because the WDFW put a blind there doesn't mean it's a favorite spot of the ducks. Just maybe the birds don't like the area the blind is in that much. Time of year, feed available, water levels etc can effect where birds go and what they do.
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Re: Frustrating, but it beats work
« Reply #18 on: December 02, 2014, 06:07:18 PM »
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Re: Frustrating, but it beats work
« Reply #19 on: December 02, 2014, 07:23:04 PM »
I have to second a jerk string. That is the only thing that MAY help. The blind could just be burnt and there isnt much you can do about that. A bunch of decoys in the water and no ripples is a bad thing for sure.
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