Hay bale blind?


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I have hunted out of ours a few times, my dad and brother swear by it. The took a roll of burlap/camo netting, 2 round bales, a sheet of ply-wood. Put the bales 5-6 feet apart the netting up as high as you can sit and still shoot over, on the back and front The ply-wood on top of the bales. Seems to work alright. mainly use it for gun season.

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hay bale blindMy design of the hay bale blind has been effective in Wyoming at Steve B's and in Illinois on whitetail this year alone. Of course I will zap a few Florida deer out of one at my place, but Wyoming and Illinois are way more exciting. People come to Florida to gator hunt, fish and look at bikini's-----I mean go to the beach.

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Round bale blinds, straw bale blinds, hay bale blindsYou can cover a hay bale blind in all types of covering. Straw works really well, so we should call it a round bale blind with straw. Or a hay bale blind looks great with alfalfa vegetation.I use some old bahia from a small round bale I was feeding my goats and the thing fooled all my neighbors. Even the guys who hunt. They just thought I wasn't buying the small round haybales anymore, but I was buying the big round bales.

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hay bale blindsI couldn't attach two pictures to one reply so here is the hay bale blind in a clover field for early season hunting in Missouri. The deer were still on a summer feeding pattern and we got really close. Two gaggers came into 62 yards, just too far for a bow shot.But come late rifle season and with temps in the teens and the wind blowing-- my round bale blind, hay bale blind or straw bale blind will be the cat bird seat- waterproof and windproof.Spring Tom from www.ChasingTheOutdoors.com

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You can cover a hay bale blind in all types of covering. Straw works really well, so we should call it a round bale blind with straw. Or a hay bale blind looks great with alfalfa vegetation.

I use some old bahia from a small round bale I was feeding my goats and the thing fooled all my neighbors. Even the guys who hunt. They just thought I wasn't buying the small round haybales anymore, but I was buying the big round bales.

That's very cool. Maybe I can build one this year. Thanks.

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glad you liked it

Glad you liked the haybale blind or in Wyoming we made it a straw bale blind. Even better they got their antelope from the bale blind.

It helps to have Steve B's advice on where to hunt---he knows antelope and a few other critters. Gillette, Wyoming is one beautiful place. Once winter comes it would be crazy to sit on those plains looking for a mule deer without the help of a hay bale blind to break the wind and sleat.

But if you had a bale blind, an alfalfa field and some coffee you would be good to go.

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Hay Bale Blinds

I recently found some folks that make a great hay bale blind. I actually drove by their place a hand full of times thinking they where real haybales until I saw their sign. The guy (I think his name was Clayton) said they where $160 or $170. They seemed to be very durable. They sale them completely assembled, or in kits, and I think you can even buy just the instructions and materials list, however I tried pricing out some of the materials and I didn't see how I could do it for less than $250 myself. Everywhere else I've seen online sales them for $500 and up. They also have a website, www.haybaleblinds.net

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Bale BlindsBuilt my own. About $300.00 in material and 3 days labor. The next one will take 1/2 the time because of not having to engineer by the boot straps. I will pick this blind up and hall it back to the shop when the snow melts for a few modifications and then use it for hunting turkeys this spring. This blind is semi-permanent, holds 2 adults, and can be heated with a buddy heater. Takes a couple bodies to load in back of pickup or a strong body to wiggle it on a trailer.

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