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Decent start to a blind
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The trailer is worth a little over a grand. The rails can be scrapped for around $75 recovery and the top can be sold outright for $100 recovery. The front swivel seats can be used for shooting stations. This is a decent start to a project duck blind. In reading it doesn't seem like he will take less but it is a good start even at that price. http://houston.craigslist.org/boa/5463370521.html
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Re: Decent start to a blind
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02/25/16 02:22 PM
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Re: Decent start to a blind
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02/25/16 03:16 PM
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there is a joke here about how many abandoned crab traps could be put on that boat, I bet enough to bankrupt a commercial crabber or 3...I'm not gonna go there though
Attention rickym, this is not a troll post, just a good hearted fun type of post
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Re: Decent start to a blind
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02/25/16 03:16 PM
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I still think the way to do one of these is to strip the deck completely. Hinge the rails at the bottom and pin them at the corners so they can be folded down the sides when hunting or raised when under way. Permanently cover the inside of the rails with brown duck canvas, camo netting, grass, or other material same as the deck. Sink three coffin blinds with doors in the middle deck. Use simple K.I.S.S. outboard stick steering with a hand rail. Throw some full body cormorant or seagull decoys on the deck as confidence decoys and you would have a low profile island diorama to hunt from. This would be for serious hunting that could take pressured birds, not comfort. Though it would not be too hard to sink a couple extra battery boxes in the deck to run simple 12 volt automotive heaters or heated mats to heat the coffins for a morning.
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Re: Decent start to a blind
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02/25/16 04:15 PM
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yeah! another craigslist blind thread by Wal.
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Re: Decent start to a blind
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02/25/16 04:24 PM
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Sniper I saw one where they stripped everything off of the deck. They used layout blinds on the deck and camoed everything. With a good camo job you could pull up to any shoreline and it would kill even the most educated birds. Doing it you way would be a whole lot easier than what I went through. Mine was a massive undertaking. I built mine for reasons other than killing birds or I would have gone lower in the profile. My single reason for constructing this thing was my wife. She is an adventurer but 0230 hours sitting in the freezing rain would not be her idea o an adventure. So she has been cut out of public opening weekends for a long time. She would rather not lay down in the bottom of a boat or just lay out on the ground and go to sleep. Had she been with me 5 years ago at lake X with Garret and them, she would never duck hunt again. That was miserable to say the least. Had she been with me when that 300 pound black bulldozer of a hog come busting through the bushes 3 feet from me while I was sleeping on the ground, she would never do that again. I been in a few tight spots, scared for m life over the years. There is no reason to fear a hog. When your by yourself in the south Texas brush, sleeping on the ground, you wake to hear hell coming through the scrub brush and its coming fast, you turn your flashlight on just in time to see this monster of a pig 3 feet from you, your mind can trick you for a second.
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Re: Decent start to a blind
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02/25/16 04:25 PM
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yeah! another craigslist blind thread by Wal. I'm still waiting on the final report of how the last one turned out. It seemed like we were getting daily updates, and then nothing.
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Re: Decent start to a blind
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02/25/16 04:45 PM
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Re: Decent start to a blind
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Had she been with me 5 years ago at lake X with Garret and them I almost had to quit after that weekend
Attention rickym, this is not a troll post, just a good hearted fun type of post
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Re: Decent start to a blind
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Had she been with me 5 years ago at lake X with Garret and them I almost had to quit after that weekend That was as bad as it gets. I will never forget that first drop of rain that hit my forehead. I said "Yall feel that rain?" and my guys said "What rain?". It was as if the bottom come out of a bucket right at that very moment.
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Re: Decent start to a blind
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02/25/16 11:06 PM
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Re: Decent start to a blind
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Whatever you do, put a go-devil on it so you wont have any motor problems.
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Re: Decent start to a blind
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Whatever you do, put a go-devil on it so you wont have any motor problems. What brand mud motor your running
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Re: Decent start to a blind
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Re: Decent start to a blind
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Whatever you do, put a go-devil on it so you wont have any motor problems. What brand mud motor your running Mud buddy, but I would not get that, it's got too many bells whistles on it that can go wrong.
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Re: Decent start to a blind
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02/27/16 01:13 AM
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Well apparently all you have to do is pour some "Tune up in a can" and go.
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Re: Decent start to a blind
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Well apparently all you have to do is pour some "Tune up in a can" and go. It's called "Mechanic in a Bottle", Wayne. And it works just like it says. You guys were gonna have me pull the carb off, pull this off, pull that off... I put that stuff in and it runs like a sewing machine.
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Re: Decent start to a blind
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Tune up in a can
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Re: Decent start to a blind
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There are two types of small motor people in the world. Them that had carb problems and them that are about to.
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Re: Decent start to a blind
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Running good now, hope is stays like that. Last day of season I put ethanol free fuel it. It loves that gas. Just cranked her up..
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Re: Decent start to a blind
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02/27/16 07:29 PM
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I can't find any place within 100 miles of Abilene that sells ethanol free gas. I only run my 10 horse during teal or spring crappie season. Run it dry every time. I purchased the motor brand new 14 years ago. Last year it stranded me as the rubbers in the carb gave out. Cost an entire $9 for parts and a bout an hour to install them. I think my right arm is larger in diameter from all the dang rowing.
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Re: Decent start to a blind
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02/27/16 10:20 PM
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I buy 5 gallons at a time at a rate of $40. I only use that for chainsaws. That lasts me about 2 years. So I use the blue stabil and leave the fuel in the barn. I get mine from a racing fuel shop in Houston. Two years is really pushing it for fuel, but with no ethanol and treaing the fuel I think I will be alright.
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Re: Decent start to a blind
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02/28/16 12:41 AM
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You put blue stabil in the ethanol free gas? I figure ethanol free gas you don't need it.
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Re: Decent start to a blind
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02/28/16 12:48 AM
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That's what I had on hand as a stabilizer for long term storage. It takes a long time and a whole lot of work to run 5 gallons of gas through a chainsaws.
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Re: Decent start to a blind
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You put blue stabil in the ethanol free gas? I figure ethanol free gas you don't need it. Any gasoline other than white gas will turn to varnish in the time span stated without some sort of stabilizer
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