Serious $40,000 duck blind question

[RUGER]

My question is, does anyone know if all of the blindgrab blinds were built with the same blueprints?
I am ASSUMING they were, but have no idea.
The reason I ask is I just saw these pictures on a duck hunting page I follow on facebook.
Yeah I know it's on facebook so it has to be true blah blah blah.....

The blind pictured is supposedly at Woods WMA. I have zero knowledge of that WMA and have never been there.
Questions / issues from the pictures.....

1) Boat shed is in the front of the blind. I guess if you have to shoot a cripple or have birds come in low and close you just have to not shoot at them?
2) There is NO DOOR leading from the boat shed to the blind?
3) The door to the blind is in the back.
4) If you park the boat you then have to get out of the boat and either walk or swim around to the rear of the blind to get in?
5) Anyone except for @rem270 that steps up in the shooting hole, the wall is gonna be about waist high?
6) Are they gonna put any paint on all that white metal?

PLEASE tell me this is just a really good photoshop job and they didn't build all the blinds like this !!!

 

[huntintn]

You don't have to walk around, you crawl through the dog door.

 

[RUGER]

I got nothing.

 

[4scout]

Maybe the dog drops everyone off, parks the boat and climbs in through the dog door.

 

[WilcoKen]

Build Back Better. -Joe Biden

 

[WilcoKen]

About the only good thing to this blind is that your shells won't fall off in the water. With steel shot shortage that's a good thing. And you can use the boat shed roof as a table for breakfast. Might set a layout blind on there too and hunt that way. Yeah this blind design is sorta growing on me.

 

[Hduke86]

I don't know if that's at Woods or not. I've hunted out there plenty but I'll take an educated guess and say once the water drops that you WONT be getting a boat in that blind. At the blind Ive hunted one complete season we set decoys out and the water was about waist to chest deep. By late December it was like shin deep lol

 

[Hduke86]

Looks to be some type of barn sliding door on the back of the blind but yes if I stood up on that shoot platform I'd probably fall out onto the roof of the boat cover

 

[West_Tn]

I'm so confused by everything about this blind

 

[RUGER]

Looks to be some type of barn sliding door on the back of the blind but yes if I stood up on that shoot platform I'd probably fall out onto the roof of the boat cover

Yes there is a sliding door
Only thing it leads to is whatever is behind the blind
Boat shed is in the front

 

[TNGunsmoke]

They don't all look that way. TWRA posted this video on their facebook page, and it shows a couple of other finished layouts. Honestly, the ones they show in the video look a lot better than the pictures of the one you posted. The ones in the video are Reelfoot and Tigrett. And go figure, they put in A1 and A2 Tigrett that they left alone because the existing blind was in good shape.

 

[Hduke86]

They don't all look that way. TWRA posted this video on their facebook page, and it shows a couple of other finished layouts. Honestly, the ones they show in the video look a lot better than the pictures of the one you posted. The ones in the video are Reelfoot and Tigrett. And go figure, they put in A1 and A2 Tigrett that they left alone because the existing blind was in good shape.

I hope that video was made a few months ago cause if not they have a awful lot of work to get done. Also I like how he danced around A1-A2 and said "yea theyre in good shape so we figured we give hunters the opportunity to have somewhere nice to hunt" . TWRA didn't build those so how is leaving them alone TWRA giving them somewhere nice to hunt. He must have been meaning "we don't want to screw these up with our Project Cluster Duck builds so we'll leave these alone so we know at least these blinds are finished" lol

 

[WilcoKen]

The comments on FB are awesome. It helps pass the time as we wait for our email telling us we were unsuccessful.

 

[TNGunsmoke]

I hope that video was made a few months ago cause if not they have a awful lot of work to get done. Also I like how he danced around A1-A2 and said "yea theyre in good shape so we figured we give hunters the opportunity to have somewhere nice to hunt" . TWRA didn't build those so how is leaving them alone TWRA giving them somewhere nice to hunt. He must have been meaning "we don't want to screw these up with our Project Cluster Duck builds so we'll leave these alone so we know at least these blinds are finished" lol

Video was posted Oct 25, don't know when it was made.

 

[RUGER]

They don't all look that way. TWRA posted this video on their facebook page, and it shows a couple of other finished layouts. Honestly, the ones they show in the video look a lot better than the pictures of the one you posted. The ones in the video are Reelfoot and Tigrett. And go figure, they put in A1 and A2 Tigrett that they left alone because the existing blind was in good shape.

I was hoping they weren't

 

[Omega]

Seems to me non-duck hunters, or someone that doesn't know how to assemble these IKEA blinds is doing the work. I bet the plans show the boat shed to the rear.

 

[Dodge Man]

They are not all the same. Some are floaters, some on pole. Some they built normal, some with boat shed in the front, some in the back. Some are designed to be able to shoot over the back of the blind, others not so much.

 

[TNTomtaker01]

I've hunted woods plenty. Aside from what y'all have already pointed out, the beams are going to knock the crap out of some heads! 2nd thing the mud at woods is insane and those legs are going to sink. By the end of season that blind might be sitting under water.

 

[GUNNERX2]

Unless your dog has xray vision, he's not going to see a damn thing fall. The dog ramp is inside the boat shed. With all the gaps in the construction, a three strand barbwire fence could stop more wind than that thing. I hope to heck they aren't through with construction on that abortion.
In all fairness, in that location, if they put the boat hide on the back you couldn't get a boat in there period. Maybe it should have been moved toward deeper water a tad.

 

[younggun308]

My question is, does anyone know if all of the blindgrab blinds were built with the same blueprints?
I am ASSUMING they were, but have no idea.
The reason I ask is I just saw these pictures on a duck hunting page I follow on facebook.
Yeah I know it's on facebook so it has to be true blah blah blah.....

The blind pictured is supposedly at Woods WMA. I have zero knowledge of that WMA and have never been there.
Questions / issues from the pictures.....

1) Boat shed is in the front of the blind. I guess if you have to shoot a cripple or have birds come in low and close you just have to not shoot at them?
2) There is NO DOOR leading from the boat shed to the blind?
3) The door to the blind is in the back.
4) If you park the boat you then have to get out of the boat and either walk or swim around to the rear of the blind to get in?
5) Anyone except for @rem270 that steps up in the shooting hole, the wall is gonna be about waist high?
6) Are they gonna put any paint on all that white metal?

PLEASE tell me this is just a really good photoshop job and they didn't build all the blinds like this !!!


View attachment 118237


View attachment 118238


View attachment 118239

Looks like Blind #28, which is relatively close to the creek channel. If it's that shallow there, I cannot imagine what it'll be like getting to #30 or #31.