Jim Orth needed a simple blind for hunting Lake St. A staffing recruiter and outfitter from Michigan detroitducks. When the weather turns, it can pose some extraordinarily harsh conditions, but Orth hunts a shoreline that blocks the wind and public boating access is close by, so it's not as risky as making long runs on open water.
His boat blind frame is made of 2" PVC pipe, making it lightweight, inexpensive, rustproof and easy to build with simple tools. The authors' unique but effective boat blind. Now 36, he continues to hunt an area of Lake St. Clair just 20 minutes outside the city. We shoot cans, bluebills, redheads, buffleheads and others.
Right now, I have two boat blinds, but I am going to build a third one because they have been so successful. Orth sets out around to Avian-X mallard , bufflehead, and pintail decoys, plus a Mojo Mallard spinner for each boat. He uses 1-pound strap weights to hold the floaters in place.
If the hunters desire, he stakes the boats close together so friends can talk boat-to-boat and hunt over the same spread. Then, I began hunting with the pastor of our church, Matt Trombley. Now he guides with me out of the second boat. When Orth was young, he hunted at Harsen's Island, a public area operated under a draw-permit system.
It was a long drive from the family home. So, he bought a used foot MirroCraft and found some good spots on St. It is an aluminum boat with a deep-V hull and has a 9. Orth turned the boat bottom side up and painted the Build Your Own Boat Duck Blind Grill entire hull with tan, green, yellow and brown acrylic latex paints to cover it with a grass-like camouflage pattern. He assembled the blind frame inside the boat, measuring each section of pipe and cutting it with a table saw.
The framework is essentially a rectangular box. It has four upright sections on the port and starboard sides that are attached to bottom and top rails with tee fittings for the two central uprights with degree bends on the ends. On the bow, stern, and rear upright sections, inline tees are located near the tops and face the interior of the boat.
Once he had assembled both the port and starboard side frames, he glued everything together with the exception of the lateral braces that fit into the inward-facing tees. When I am setting up the blind at the ramp, I fit the lateral support braces back into the tees.
Using aerosol paints specifically formulated for use on plastics, he painted the framework. Then he attached the bottoms of the side frames to the aluminum boat seats using metal conduit clamps and self-tapping screws. The clamps allow the PVC pipe frames to rotate freely so he can quickly collapse or erect the blind. Orth attached the top to the frame with zip ties and braces that extend down and rest on the seats.
By changing the angle of the braces, he can adjust the height of the top. Orth attached green-coated wire garden fencing to the two side frames and top using zip ties. To the garden fencing, he attached Speed Grass mats, also with zip ties. The Speed Grass extends beyond the bottoms of the side frames to the waterline.
Speed Grass also overhangs the top like a fringe to help hide the hunters' faces. He hides the engine with a factory-made, camouflage cover.
It is a little tricky trying to tell someone else how to do it in the dark, so I usually do it myself. Then I put them back in when I move back to the stern. Orth keeps the boat stationary by tying it off between four green garden stakes poked into the lake bottom. He usually leaves them in place and puts a white bleach jug over them so he can find them in the dark.
The great thing about using PVC pipe was Orth was able to fit all parts of the frame together and then take them apart before gluing everything together to make the final assembly. The entire blind is so light two hunters have no trouble putting it on or taking it off the boat.
To remove the blind after the hunting season, Orth simply uses a power drill to remove the screws holding the conduit clamps to the seats. You might think PVC is not sturdy enough to make a durable blind frame, but Orth said he has only experienced two problems. Once, he hit the dock with the blind and it broke one of the top sections and he used some camouflaged duct tape to make a temporary repair.
Another time, a hunter lost his balance and grabbed the frame, cracking it near one of the tees, an easy thing to fix. Orth usually sets up close to the shoreline in order to blend in. He said it is extremely effective. Making your own boat blind is a simple task.
All that is needed is a little material and a big imagination. We got one canvasback, two drake mallards and one hen mallard, plus one coot. Another day, I had two hunters along and we shot nine buffleheads. The blind is so easy to set up and works so well that every hunt from it is nothing but fun.
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