The mother of all blinds

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anthony m coons sr

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Did you ever go over board building a duck blind? Well my older brother and I did. In fact we built it the night before opening day years ago. During a thunder and lighting storm, under power lines. Fun you say! I didn't think so. We had the help of the members of our duck club (Towers Duck Club). We built the mother of all blinds. It had four beds in it, a bar , cooking area, and it floated. It had to be something like twenty by twelve. I know we had to cut down a small forest of cedar tree to grass it. It took us until we hours in the morning to finish. We then! with no sleep towed the blind into the bay. We hammered the bird when the sun came up. All our friends told us you'll never get anything with a blind that big. Guess what ! they were wrong . So wrong later on that season someone sunk it. There always going to be jerks, But there will only ever be one mother of all blinds.
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Years ago when we had plentiful broadbill, a local group of brothers built a 6 man floating blind. Back then there were tons of birds and a two week extended boadbill season. 200 to 300 decoys of combined rigs were common. A lot were shot out of lay out boats.
Usually 8-15 guys, 2-3 decoy boats and a layout boats.
Grill for coffee, lunch to keep the crews fed. Lots of breast for lunch and snacks. Was a long weekend, with a lot of baymen taking extra days off and a few guys taking a couple of extra hours off.
The good ol days...
 
Capt.

That is so cool! They were the good old day. Just think when our time comes to met the lord. All those birds will be in heaven so we can hunt them again. Hope they have a better bag limit up there.

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This is the largest boat blind I have ever seen...aluminum frame on the first floor, with two anchor poles tipped with augers in stanchions along the port and starboard sides. One of these was bent and the pole tip snapped-off, probably why it was sitting on shore.
 
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Rl

Sweet thanks for sharing that. That is one big sucker. I was wondering when floating it might be a little scary on the top. Duck hunters are the masters of building stuff with junk parts. In my day I have seen man that couldn't hammer a nail. Build some of the best duck blinds ever.

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When you inspect this rig close-up it has a lot of workmanship and effort put into it. The blind frame vertical support members are all aluminum. There is a centrally located table with DC wiring source and propane tank for cooking that is protected on three sides from the wind. The downside is that this bay is shallow overall and generally quite windy with its long axis oriented west to east, way too windy to hold this much surface area in place when it picks-up. I wonder how much the shooting deck oscillates for the hunters when they are sitting that high in rough conditions.
 
Rl

I couldn't agree with you more, But on the other hand in a bay out of the wind. I would love to hunt in that blind. On the Hudson where I hunt. There are bays that would be great for that blind. Only thing I don't know how it would be on the mud at low tide.

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