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February 18, 2010

Hurteau: Wood-Pile Blind, SpongeBob, and the Mother of All Deer Stands

By Dave Hurteau

So I’m here banging my head against the wall to see if anything falls out for this morning’s blog when Bestul sends me a charity email sporting pictures of this crazy, wood-pile hunting blind. Yes, that center slot that looks like logs flips up so you can shoot.

I got to thinking that there must be other unusual blinds to be found on the Internet—home of the unusual. And there are, of course, like the Predator IV Mirror Blind, which is apparently the “ORIGINAL ‘invisible’ deer or turkey hunting blind that hides hunters in plain sight!” and sells for just $1,025.

Then I thought maybe we should have a crazy-deer-stand contest, but quickly learned—shocker—that I’m not the first to think of that. Texas’ Wilson County News, it turns out, recently held its own annual “Best, Worst & Most Unique Deer Stand Contest,”  which turned up several gems, including:

Then, after a little more searching, I found what has to be the mother of all deer stands.

. . . complete with step-by-step instructions.

Got a favorite?

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from buckhunter wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

My thought on the wood pile blind... The best place to hide a book is in the library.

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from VAHunter540 wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

Saw a Haybale blind in another "Deer" magazine that was pretty impressive. Full sized, very lifelike, and very roomy inside. I think it was homemade. And of course the "Cow" blind that was covered in the SHOT SHOW articles was pretty good also, even if comical.... reminds me of that scene from Jeremiah Johnson, When Bear Claw says, "Elk dont know how many legs a horse has"!

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from apowers1031 wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

the mirror blind should reflect sun light too with gives a sine so i dont think it would work...

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from Clay Cooper wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

wood-pile blind?

I LIKE THAT!

Kinda worries me though, some wackjob just might use it for a backstop for target practicing?

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from Clay Cooper wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

apowers1031

The mirror blind works fantastic. There are some biologists and animal watchers have used this. The funny thing about it is, when the critter gets to close and sees its reflection ether they think its another or scars the crap out of them!

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from apowers1031 wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

ohh...i just figured it would reflect/shine a light on the deer or animal...maybe not though

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from borediis21 wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

http://www.ghostblind.com/
this website has alot of FAQ's on the mirror blind and they seem pretty effective

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from fisherman14 wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

The "Mother of All Deer Blinds" looks pretty cool. How do you get a camper that high? That "invisible" blind is pretty cool as well.

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from apowers1031 wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

thanks everyone for the help on the invisabe blind it looks like it works...proved wrong once again...not the first and not the last tim for shoure though

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from Dave Hurteau wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

Fisherman14,
Click on the blue-highlighted text above that reads "step-by-step instructions," and it will take you to the maker's website, showing exactly how it was done.

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from HunterGreene wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

I like the Sponge Bob, what deer would be scared off by someone "who lives in a pineapple under the sea."

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from 2Poppa wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

I had seen most of them before, but the wood-pile is my favorite. Actually, I got to thinkin', a ghillie suit is kind of like a blind ... but different in the fact it moves with you.

My nephew, two deer seasons ago, noticed a couple of bucks coming out into a field just before dusk. There were round hay bales scattered throughout the field. He rolled several of them into a circle in the field and waited.

The bucks seemed to stay out of bow range or would come into the field after dark. No problem! He rolled them closer to the edge of the field and didn't come back for 2-days, and on the third day ... Thump City!

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from RackAttack68 wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

the "invisible blind" would be good for camo but i think if a rutting buck saw its self in the reflection the person in the blind could be in some trouble

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from MLH wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

I love that wood pile - awesome job - but was thinking the same thing as clay - someone using it as target practice.

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from RichardF wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

I have used a hay bale blind in a gew configurations, they work great. One is just a hay bale made form a fence pannel wrapped with prarie grasses, the other is a fence pannel between two round bales and wrapped. The benifit to the second is that the hay smells so strong that it covers your scent. I had an old doe eat about 5 feet from me one night.

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from 86Ram wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

Cool Blinds...

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from alabamaoutlaw wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

I think before i paid a grand on the invisible blind i'd go to Sams and get me some big rolls of Aluminum foil and cardboard.Me and my grandaughter would have a little project.I'd have an invisible house in the woods.I have seen some real doozies in the woods that make you leave scratching your head.

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from Sarge01 wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

While hunting along the Alabama river near Selma I stayed in a hunting cabin that looked quite like the camper in the air, except the camp was even higher than that. It seems that the Alabama river reaches very high heights in the spring and the camp had to be that high. I was shocked the first time I saw it and was even more shocked when I had to carry all my gear up to the camp. Good article on blinds.

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from backlash wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

The Sponge Bob blind is classic. My daughter would be singing the theme song "absorbant and yellow and porous is he!" so it might limit the effectiveness if I chose to use it with my kids.

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from huskerguy wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

I do like the wood one. Wouldnt be fond of staying in it though, where there are a lot of hunters.

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from Hunter Savage wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

there was a video of them putting the bottom blind in the air on you tube a while back . i cant remember the name of it but they picked it up with two farm tractors .

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from fliphuntr14 wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

wood pile blind pretty cool may try it only down side i could see is i use my wood piles around my house to hunt for squirrels would make an interesting situation to come across a family of them inside when u intend to hunt lol. might design my next ice shanty with that

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from Brittle wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

the mirror blind would make the deer see itself and show the suns rays

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from tbogg10 wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

pretty sweet blinds, i like that mirror blind, but i think i could build it cheaper than that, oh well, ill prolly stick to the simple stuff, seems to work just fine, and im kinda against the shooting houses

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from KyleKortright wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

they are designed not to reflect light

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from Bella wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

Any woodpile that Neat would instantly make me suspicious.
All these outragous deerstands give me ideas though, I want another treehouse anyway...

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from steve182 wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

They're all pretty cool, interesting and expensive. I personally prefer something a bit more natural like a real hay bale, wood pile or tangle of brush. I don't often use a blind anyway.

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from huntr4ever wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

I have a ghost blind. It works really well. the first time i used it, I got a nice turkey. I sent them my picture you can see it on the ghostblind website. It is a cool product and the cost is much less than the one above.

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from WhitetailHunter706 wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

those are all pretty neat makes you start thinkin what you could come up with... haha hav fun every1 Good Luck and Good hunting

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from waterdrinker9 wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

The wood pile blind is genius!!!

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from gadeerhunter wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

Some great ideas for deer stands. Like the woodpile the best.

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from tomblog wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

Good information on blinds. I am retired now and money is always an issue. I have found with a little scouting and good used of the things around me where I want to set up a good blind is not an issue. I have sometimes used netting to keep things off my head still allowing me to stand up on some shots with a bow. If I had to choose I would lots rather buy a good ground level stand. The problem is I hunt in several locations and on blind will not do for all of them.

Tomblog
Gunsellers.com
8520 S 1300 E
Sandy Ut, 84094
801.486.2727

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from dighunter wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

At a place where we coyote hunt, the landowner has added sides and windows to an old grain hopper wagon. He uses the chute to climb in and out. Portable and the deer are used to seing it.

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from Skeeb wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

I can't stop laughing after seeing that highrise trailer stand! LOL

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from blackwolftdm wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

The glass blind thing is pretty cool, but the only down fall i could see with that is, what if a buck came up from behind you, and you didnt see it and it saw itself in the glass and wanted to fight the mirror buck haha could be bad.

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from usmcturkey wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

I knew of a handicap gentleman that hunted up in NY. Every year we would set up a flat hay wagon and load round and square hay bales on it. I looked like a big hut, he would drive out and park behind it. There was not a year that man did not get a deer. The deer were use to seeing a hay wagon and it worked.

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from albertahunter wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

The trailer up high is the best, deck and all too. main home must be a double wide....
There is a mirror blind for personal use that is supposed to work well, I think Jim Shockey endorses it. Great idea anyway but wouldnt want to be behind it when a rutting bull moose sees itself or whitetail buck either. On one of the farms I hunt there is an old combine harvester in the field and it makes a great blind to sit in and we have used it for years. Anything that has been out there will work because the animals get used to it being there.

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from Douglas wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

The amish around here will build you a blind for $500. Built on the pattern of their outhouses. It won't blow away either.
I really like the woodpile blind!

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from Bob81 wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

Hurteau,
I'm afraid you got some bad information. That first "woodpile blind" isn't a hunting blind. It was featured in an architectural blog I read a few months ago and is actually a small study/music studio built for a famous recording artist somewhere in Scandinavia, I think.

Here's a link with some interior pics:
http://www.bestofremodeling.com/blog/odd/woodpile-secret-recording-studi...

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from baton-rouge-roofing wrote 1 year 11 weeks ago

Great post, excellent insight.


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from Wills and Wills wrote 1 year 10 weeks ago

The wood pile hunting blind is a great idea, cracking disguise.Jobs in Stratford

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from blackrose807 wrote 1 year 10 weeks ago

This post is exactly what I am interested. keep up the good work. we need more good statements. Xbox Live Code

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from Wills and Wills wrote 1 year 10 weeks ago

The mirrored hunting bin is a great one, obviously you would need to position the bin cleverly but even so very well thought of. Handmade Knitwear

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from alasiri4 wrote 1 year 6 weeks ago

I had seen most of them before, but the wood-pile is my favorite. Actually, I got to thinkin', a ghillie suit is kind of like a blind ... but different in the fact it moves with you.منتديات مسجات وسائط My nephew, two deer seasons ago, noticed a couple of bucks coming out into a field just before dusk. There were round hay bales scattered throughout the field.
توبيكات ماسنجر He rolled several of them into a circle in the field and waited.The bucks seemed to stay out of bow range or would come into the field after dark. No problem! He rolled them closer to the edge of the field and didn't come back for 2-days, and on the third day ... Thump City!

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from Wills and Wills wrote 1 year 3 weeks ago

I can't see the Spongebob deer stand being too effective. Newspaper Printing

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from HunterGreene wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

I like the Sponge Bob, what deer would be scared off by someone "who lives in a pineapple under the sea."

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from buckhunter wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

My thought on the wood pile blind... The best place to hide a book is in the library.

+3 Good Comment? | | Report
from Clay Cooper wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

wood-pile blind?

I LIKE THAT!

Kinda worries me though, some wackjob just might use it for a backstop for target practicing?

+3 Good Comment? | | Report
from Brittle wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

the mirror blind would make the deer see itself and show the suns rays

+3 Good Comment? | | Report
from VAHunter540 wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

Saw a Haybale blind in another "Deer" magazine that was pretty impressive. Full sized, very lifelike, and very roomy inside. I think it was homemade. And of course the "Cow" blind that was covered in the SHOT SHOW articles was pretty good also, even if comical.... reminds me of that scene from Jeremiah Johnson, When Bear Claw says, "Elk dont know how many legs a horse has"!

+2 Good Comment? | | Report
from apowers1031 wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

ohh...i just figured it would reflect/shine a light on the deer or animal...maybe not though

+2 Good Comment? | | Report
from borediis21 wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

http://www.ghostblind.com/
this website has alot of FAQ's on the mirror blind and they seem pretty effective

+2 Good Comment? | | Report
from fisherman14 wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

The "Mother of All Deer Blinds" looks pretty cool. How do you get a camper that high? That "invisible" blind is pretty cool as well.

+2 Good Comment? | | Report
from apowers1031 wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

thanks everyone for the help on the invisabe blind it looks like it works...proved wrong once again...not the first and not the last tim for shoure though

+2 Good Comment? | | Report
from Dave Hurteau wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

Fisherman14,
Click on the blue-highlighted text above that reads "step-by-step instructions," and it will take you to the maker's website, showing exactly how it was done.

+2 Good Comment? | | Report
from 2Poppa wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

I had seen most of them before, but the wood-pile is my favorite. Actually, I got to thinkin', a ghillie suit is kind of like a blind ... but different in the fact it moves with you.

My nephew, two deer seasons ago, noticed a couple of bucks coming out into a field just before dusk. There were round hay bales scattered throughout the field. He rolled several of them into a circle in the field and waited.

The bucks seemed to stay out of bow range or would come into the field after dark. No problem! He rolled them closer to the edge of the field and didn't come back for 2-days, and on the third day ... Thump City!

+2 Good Comment? | | Report
from RackAttack68 wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

the "invisible blind" would be good for camo but i think if a rutting buck saw its self in the reflection the person in the blind could be in some trouble

+2 Good Comment? | | Report
from MLH wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

I love that wood pile - awesome job - but was thinking the same thing as clay - someone using it as target practice.

+2 Good Comment? | | Report
from RichardF wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

I have used a hay bale blind in a gew configurations, they work great. One is just a hay bale made form a fence pannel wrapped with prarie grasses, the other is a fence pannel between two round bales and wrapped. The benifit to the second is that the hay smells so strong that it covers your scent. I had an old doe eat about 5 feet from me one night.

+2 Good Comment? | | Report
from alabamaoutlaw wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

I think before i paid a grand on the invisible blind i'd go to Sams and get me some big rolls of Aluminum foil and cardboard.Me and my grandaughter would have a little project.I'd have an invisible house in the woods.I have seen some real doozies in the woods that make you leave scratching your head.

+2 Good Comment? | | Report
from Sarge01 wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

While hunting along the Alabama river near Selma I stayed in a hunting cabin that looked quite like the camper in the air, except the camp was even higher than that. It seems that the Alabama river reaches very high heights in the spring and the camp had to be that high. I was shocked the first time I saw it and was even more shocked when I had to carry all my gear up to the camp. Good article on blinds.

+2 Good Comment? | | Report
from backlash wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

The Sponge Bob blind is classic. My daughter would be singing the theme song "absorbant and yellow and porous is he!" so it might limit the effectiveness if I chose to use it with my kids.

+2 Good Comment? | | Report
from huskerguy wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

I do like the wood one. Wouldnt be fond of staying in it though, where there are a lot of hunters.

+2 Good Comment? | | Report
from Hunter Savage wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

there was a video of them putting the bottom blind in the air on you tube a while back . i cant remember the name of it but they picked it up with two farm tractors .

+2 Good Comment? | | Report
from fliphuntr14 wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

wood pile blind pretty cool may try it only down side i could see is i use my wood piles around my house to hunt for squirrels would make an interesting situation to come across a family of them inside when u intend to hunt lol. might design my next ice shanty with that

+2 Good Comment? | | Report
from tbogg10 wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

pretty sweet blinds, i like that mirror blind, but i think i could build it cheaper than that, oh well, ill prolly stick to the simple stuff, seems to work just fine, and im kinda against the shooting houses

+2 Good Comment? | | Report
from KyleKortright wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

they are designed not to reflect light

+2 Good Comment? | | Report
from Bella wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

Any woodpile that Neat would instantly make me suspicious.
All these outragous deerstands give me ideas though, I want another treehouse anyway...

+2 Good Comment? | | Report
from steve182 wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

They're all pretty cool, interesting and expensive. I personally prefer something a bit more natural like a real hay bale, wood pile or tangle of brush. I don't often use a blind anyway.

+2 Good Comment? | | Report
from huntr4ever wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

I have a ghost blind. It works really well. the first time i used it, I got a nice turkey. I sent them my picture you can see it on the ghostblind website. It is a cool product and the cost is much less than the one above.

+2 Good Comment? | | Report
from apowers1031 wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

the mirror blind should reflect sun light too with gives a sine so i dont think it would work...

+1 Good Comment? | | Report
from Clay Cooper wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

apowers1031

The mirror blind works fantastic. There are some biologists and animal watchers have used this. The funny thing about it is, when the critter gets to close and sees its reflection ether they think its another or scars the crap out of them!

+1 Good Comment? | | Report
from WhitetailHunter706 wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

those are all pretty neat makes you start thinkin what you could come up with... haha hav fun every1 Good Luck and Good hunting

+1 Good Comment? | | Report
from waterdrinker9 wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

The wood pile blind is genius!!!

+1 Good Comment? | | Report
from gadeerhunter wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

Some great ideas for deer stands. Like the woodpile the best.

+1 Good Comment? | | Report
from tomblog wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

Good information on blinds. I am retired now and money is always an issue. I have found with a little scouting and good used of the things around me where I want to set up a good blind is not an issue. I have sometimes used netting to keep things off my head still allowing me to stand up on some shots with a bow. If I had to choose I would lots rather buy a good ground level stand. The problem is I hunt in several locations and on blind will not do for all of them.

Tomblog
Gunsellers.com
8520 S 1300 E
Sandy Ut, 84094
801.486.2727

+1 Good Comment? | | Report
from dighunter wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

At a place where we coyote hunt, the landowner has added sides and windows to an old grain hopper wagon. He uses the chute to climb in and out. Portable and the deer are used to seing it.

+1 Good Comment? | | Report
from Skeeb wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

I can't stop laughing after seeing that highrise trailer stand! LOL

+1 Good Comment? | | Report
from blackwolftdm wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

The glass blind thing is pretty cool, but the only down fall i could see with that is, what if a buck came up from behind you, and you didnt see it and it saw itself in the glass and wanted to fight the mirror buck haha could be bad.

+1 Good Comment? | | Report
from usmcturkey wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

I knew of a handicap gentleman that hunted up in NY. Every year we would set up a flat hay wagon and load round and square hay bales on it. I looked like a big hut, he would drive out and park behind it. There was not a year that man did not get a deer. The deer were use to seeing a hay wagon and it worked.

+1 Good Comment? | | Report
from albertahunter wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

The trailer up high is the best, deck and all too. main home must be a double wide....
There is a mirror blind for personal use that is supposed to work well, I think Jim Shockey endorses it. Great idea anyway but wouldnt want to be behind it when a rutting bull moose sees itself or whitetail buck either. On one of the farms I hunt there is an old combine harvester in the field and it makes a great blind to sit in and we have used it for years. Anything that has been out there will work because the animals get used to it being there.

+1 Good Comment? | | Report
from Douglas wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

The amish around here will build you a blind for $500. Built on the pattern of their outhouses. It won't blow away either.
I really like the woodpile blind!

+1 Good Comment? | | Report
from Bob81 wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

Hurteau,
I'm afraid you got some bad information. That first "woodpile blind" isn't a hunting blind. It was featured in an architectural blog I read a few months ago and is actually a small study/music studio built for a famous recording artist somewhere in Scandinavia, I think.

Here's a link with some interior pics:
http://www.bestofremodeling.com/blog/odd/woodpile-secret-recording-studi...

+1 Good Comment? | | Report
from 86Ram wrote 1 year 49 weeks ago

Cool Blinds...

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from baton-rouge-roofing wrote 1 year 11 weeks ago

Great post, excellent insight.


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Commercial Roofing Baton Rouge

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from Wills and Wills wrote 1 year 10 weeks ago

The wood pile hunting blind is a great idea, cracking disguise.Jobs in Stratford

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from blackrose807 wrote 1 year 10 weeks ago

This post is exactly what I am interested. keep up the good work. we need more good statements. Xbox Live Code

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from Wills and Wills wrote 1 year 10 weeks ago

The mirrored hunting bin is a great one, obviously you would need to position the bin cleverly but even so very well thought of. Handmade Knitwear

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from alasiri4 wrote 1 year 6 weeks ago

I had seen most of them before, but the wood-pile is my favorite. Actually, I got to thinkin', a ghillie suit is kind of like a blind ... but different in the fact it moves with you.منتديات مسجات وسائط My nephew, two deer seasons ago, noticed a couple of bucks coming out into a field just before dusk. There were round hay bales scattered throughout the field.
توبيكات ماسنجر He rolled several of them into a circle in the field and waited.The bucks seemed to stay out of bow range or would come into the field after dark. No problem! He rolled them closer to the edge of the field and didn't come back for 2-days, and on the third day ... Thump City!

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from Wills and Wills wrote 1 year 3 weeks ago

I can't see the Spongebob deer stand being too effective. Newspaper Printing

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