Square metal bar stock with burlap
Been years since I used to do field shoots, a lot of miles and door pounding as opposed to water which is much easier, but in the day...
Using 1/2 square bar stock, 5 foot verticals. Tack a round pipe 3/4 "ID on both sides near the top of the sold bar stock.
Take 1/4 round bar and make it the length of the distance post to post. The horizontal bent at an L drop into the receivers on the vertical post. Take Burlap and lay it out, and wire it to the vertical posts. You are looking for 4 foot burlap for the blind, which is not easy to find any more.
Take stove wire and make a loop and push through the top of the burlap. This keeps the burlap taught to the frame Take some brown, black, and green paint and paint on verticals and angle stripes on the burlap to break up the burlap.
In the field, just pound in the vertical post and spread out the burlap, put on the horizontal bar, and drape the burlap tight to the horizontal bar supported between the two vertical bars.
The final evolution of this blind had three front vertical posts with 3 foot spacing, two side panels but 4 feet horizontal, and two long rear panels that overlapped so you could not see into the blind from the back.
Late season the problem with willow is getting them into the hard ground.
Best approach was again 1/2 " solid bar cut to a point 18 inches long, and the other end a section of 4 " pipe welded on to the solid bar. Ram the 1/2 " bar into the ground, and have the bar about 1 foot out of the ground. Stuff the pipe with willows. You need about 6 of these on the front and 6 in the back to support the willows in front and in back of the blind, but the willows will stand upright nicely in the bracket, where trying and stuffing sharp willow ends in in the hard ground will just make you cry.
Drewski
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