We got a new lease this year in West TN. We're in the Obion river bottom, near the Mississippi. It is a mix of timber and buck brush swamp with some levees that hold water nearly year round. We also have an old river run slough.
Access is a bit of a challenge.... Park in a bean field. ATV across the field, through the woods, to the swamp. Then, boat in on high water, wade in on low water.
First year hunting this property, we're making lots of assumptions about how ducks will work and use it. Locating a big permanent blind is a gamble and it is a substantial investment and challenge due to the access and swamp.
We originally intended to stick build a blind as cheaply as possible but the task of setting posts and the wildly variable water levels steered us towards a floating blind. Ultimately, we decided to build it at home in modules so that we could disassemble it, haul it, drag it to/through the swamp and reassemble it.
I'm proud of how it's gone so far and thought I'd share.
The platform is 24x8 and breaks into 4) 4x12 modules. Flotation is 5) 50 gallon drums per module.
This is the first module going together.
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Access is a bit of a challenge.... Park in a bean field. ATV across the field, through the woods, to the swamp. Then, boat in on high water, wade in on low water.
First year hunting this property, we're making lots of assumptions about how ducks will work and use it. Locating a big permanent blind is a gamble and it is a substantial investment and challenge due to the access and swamp.
We originally intended to stick build a blind as cheaply as possible but the task of setting posts and the wildly variable water levels steered us towards a floating blind. Ultimately, we decided to build it at home in modules so that we could disassemble it, haul it, drag it to/through the swamp and reassemble it.
I'm proud of how it's gone so far and thought I'd share.
The platform is 24x8 and breaks into 4) 4x12 modules. Flotation is 5) 50 gallon drums per module.
This is the first module going together.
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