The Reason Ducks Spook | Duck Hunting Blinds and How to Hide

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On this video discover the #1 Reason why ducks spook and how you can fix it! Joel shows you many different types of blind and ways you can hide so ducks wont see you.
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@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

What kind of blind do you hunt from?

@morganyoder4277 3 года назад

Pretty terrible ones often, California public land blinds are either worn down and poorly brushed in or I'm that one guy on a 5 gallon bucket you were talking about. One way I combat being seen is the sitka gear I bought for an arm and a leg (which was worth it but it still hurts) which seems to help a bit, but I agree that movement of yourself and the spread is key.

@anthonypatrick5093 3 года назад

I have a banded axe land/boat blind with strips of camo burlap zip tied on it over lapping each other.

@robertbelleville1411 3 года назад

Homemade scissor blind on our boat. Grass it out with overhead cover and we still use face masks or face paint. It’s always funny to see people in a good blind but their faces bobbing around giving them away.

@pepepepert 3 года назад

Mine is just a camo net pulled up on my kayak.

@WhatupG 3 года назад

My favorite way to hunt is the flooded timber, but rarely get to do that... mostly hunting from pit blind... but also use layout boat with blind... also awesome way to hunt.

@spmccaslin 3 года назад

Joel, not everyone has access to the "Coolest" blind, some of us hike in and even lay on a barren beach and sit up and shoot. We do just that, respecting your info, would you consider reviewing HECS suits ?

@HokeOutdoors 3 года назад

Great video Joel! Incredibly thorough and tons of useful information. Keep pumping them out!

@HokeOutdoors 3 года назад

I primarily hunt from wooden blinds when I'm not in my kayak

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Thanks Thomas 👍🏻💪🏻👊🏻 the only time I ever hunted out of a kayak was when I hunted with Elliot and the gang in Kansas last year!

@rjohns10 3 года назад

Great video man! Love how you make your videos keep them coming!

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Glad you like them! Thanks so much!

@DaddyDuck365 3 года назад

Got it love it....Natural Gear Hands down the best........and face paint is a must......great job

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Daddy Duck 365 haha! Thanks buddy!

@FreedomWon20 2 года назад

can't stand face paint, so I wear a mesh mask here in FL. and make everyone ware gloves because someone is always pointing with their WHITE FLAGS, aka hands at something.

@idshoot4ya 3 года назад

Boat blind, on public and we have some permanent wood blinds on our lease. Awesome video again!! Hands down best!!! lol. Seriously, they are. Keep em coming!

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Thanks I really appreciate it 👍🏻💪🏻👊🏻

@alansmith4618 3 года назад

Joel you have the best videos, hands down the best!! HAHA love what you do man keep up the good work!

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

LOL Glad you like them! Thanks!

@FreelanceDuckHunting 3 года назад

Another top notch video Joel!

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Thanks Elliott!

@TMFS4659 3 года назад

I stopped watching FDH cuz he got so commercialized...used to love your videos Elliot but they are not the same. Joel you have great info!

@rcumbee56 3 года назад

Nice video Joel! Bustem Blinds out of Lebanon Mo are great blinds made to fit on your duck boat. The doors look really cool. Love your work and I've bought a sou vide unit because of you. Looking forward to duck and goose in it this year! BTW, I LOVE goose gizzards! I understand some folks don't eat them but that's a lot of good meat to waste. Fantastic in a Jumbalya!

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Yeah, the sous vide is great! Thanks for the tips!

@outdoor044 9 месяцев назад

What are your thoughts on birds seeing different color light spectrums and how they see synthetic fabrics or materials in a different way than natural vegetation? I sometimes wonder if our cammo or decoys stick out to them due to the way the birds see them.... I know thats been a thing in the past. Seems like it could be possible, idk.

@Goosemaster1810 3 года назад

Another gem.We hunt from a pit blind.Face exposure is a big no no. I love a pit blind we have individual lids for each hunter. But we don’t have paid clients.Keep them coming your info is top shelf. God Bless you.

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Thanks bro!

@cfoutdoors243 3 года назад

Great vid and info. I seem to recall you mentioning that when someone says "hands down the best" its a personal preference and isn't for everybody. My blinds usually consist a good thick patch of cattails. My camo preference for where I hunt is the advantage wetlands. It's not dark like a lot of patterns for the areas I hunt. I don't know how many times I see the bucket hunters with little to no cover. Your vids are always informative 👍

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Yep, you got it! Thanks a bunch!

@jeremybreeden77 3 года назад

I agree with you 100% Joel. Concealment and maintaining that concealment (i.e. not reaching for your gun, looking around, fidgeting, etc..) is definitely the most important thing to not flare ducks. Might get away with poor concealment on opening day or during heavy migration days butt that's it! Thanks for another great video.

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Yes, Jeremy, very true! I appreciate you!

@tylersGBO 3 года назад

If you’re not calling, don’t be looking up! You should just watch the callers eyes!

@DuckalopeOutdoors 3 года назад

I just emailed you! Awesome video! But so everyone knows. H10 with the Northern Flight Blind! Yes you can do it! I love it! - Chris

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Duckalope Outdoors thanks brother, I’ll be looking for it.

@ChasingGreen 3 года назад

Another good one

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Chasing Green thanks brother, I appreciate ya!

@Tyler_B. 3 года назад

I always brush my blinds (kayak and layout) with raffia grass at the beginning of the season then add natural material and spray paint to match the environment

@stephenswanzy5248 3 года назад

My dad always would tell me and my brothers don’t move a muscle and don’t look up. We hunted out of boat blinds, blinds we put together on the bank and then we constructed our own blind out of a metal frame covered with wood and then put line-x on it to water proof it. It was really nice and had some nice bells and whistles but no matter what kinda of blind we hunted out of we always brushed it out with, my dad calls it river Cain, the bamboo looking stuff nothing else cuz it was “hands down” the best cover. 😂😂😆🤪 Lol...nice show this week Joel look forward to next week. 👊🏻

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Yeah that cane is good stuff to use. We use a lot of it too... thanks for watching and for the comments, I appreciate you.

@aimkhan83 3 года назад

Just sent you a couple of photos. As usual great video

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Thanks 👍🏻💪🏻👊🏻

@danpatrick9080 2 года назад

A resevoir out here in southern california is allowing hunting from boat from designated buoys..5 to 25 ft of water not from the shore. Would u recommend one if those conduit scissor blinds or just laying out in jon boat with camo burlap covering everything

@phillipaton658 3 года назад

First comment! Can’t wait for this up coming season. Definitely gonna use the tips and tricks you’ve taught me!!

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Awesome! I can't wait either!

@guillermodiaz7241 3 года назад

Hands down the best camo lol saw what you did there

@mattbugg4568 3 года назад

There is a few tricks to being really conciled. 1 make specific movements like when you move move don't move around unless you move into a position. Birds pick up on random movements like shaking swinging etc. 2nd take your outer layer of gear and swamp it, like wear it into dirty water or rub dirt on it. Creak silt etc works great, then never wash it again wash your under layers. Commercial washing agents have something in them that makes them glow in sunlight. Third. Get some Elvis shades don't know why but ducks hate being eyeballed yet you can wear solid gold or silver reflectors and no problem. And lastly if your card table chair becomes a blind waterfowl hate shadows, so make it open or covered having the old school slit roof with a dugout shadow is what's scaring the birds if your wondering you could make the blind out of purple pocadot material as long as it doesn't have a shadow. They started making ground blinds like the zero gravity and low body because the birds were getting wise to them because they threw a shadow. If you are out in the open make your shadow into a bush or something natural and you can effectively just sit covered up and do fine. Silhouettes and straight lines and corners don't look natural to anything. Even more so when its a shadow.

@curtmuffley2995 3 года назад

Joel, love your videos. Great job. I’m just starting to get into duck hunting. I’ve been binge watching your videos to learn how to duck hunt. If you’re not too busy, I’ve got a couple questions. Can I effectively hunt teal with mallard decoys only? Can I use a mojo voodoo dove spinner to hunt teal?

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Yes and yes! One suggestion for you: if you have plenty of hen decoys to hunt with, I suggest using hens only in the early teal season. If not then don't worry.

@gd_gnz 2 года назад

I use fan palms in California. Use a utility knife to remove the thorns. Leave a longer stem and sharpen the end if you need to stick them in the ground or zip tie to a 2x2 construction stake.

@clinte9897 3 года назад

I usually hunt all kinds, I have pit blinds that I don’t care for much, seems to stick out to me. I’m usually only one brushing it even tho we have another group we rotate with. They stomp around it, drive utv thru mud too so from above you can see atv trails going to the pit blind. Then floating blinds. They stick out like a sore thumb too. I have a boat blind on my mud boat. It’s ok if I can bury it up in brush out of sun. I have layout blinds for hunting river edges. And have some flooded timber holes too. Only thing I don’t have is a A frame blind. I’m pretty versatile tho depending on the area I’m hunting.

@davidspeicher4890 3 года назад

In early season we've sat in the marsh in a t-shirt, shorts and sandals and they've come in. We've also sat on docks and shot passing birds. The key is to not move.

@kraigkaatz6858 3 года назад

100% agree with your thoughts

@josephbillings1906 3 года назад

Like your Thrivent shirt! I would send you a pic of my kayak and Jon boat blind but I'm still building it.

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Right on, no worries!

@levibruce8322 2 года назад

I had an amazing hunt planned yesterday in layout boats. My tagalong didn't think ducks cared about seeing his face. This guy was eyeballing them the whole way. Needless to say 3 birds on the day,saw probably 450 mallards.

@SurvivingDuckSeason 2 года назад

Yikes!

@dreadnoughty1 3 года назад

i have a sheet of camo burlap stapled to 3 dowel rods. its light to pack in rolled up on public land. add a bit of grass to break it up

@BAHRacingTeam 3 года назад

I’m in Delaware. Public blinds that are beat to death and ran down. It’s also illegal here to redo the grass on the blinds with grass from the nearby land.

@waynenelson1244 Год назад

Your correct ,concealment is key , movement gives you away, it is hard to have a good blind on public, how much can you carry out ? Dekes,blind , chair, camo screen ,lay down blind ,so many options

@wholeass83 3 года назад

Last week we propped a canu up and put some brush on it. Didn't work well.

@woodduck635 3 года назад

Great video, Joel! the drone footage really shows how good (or bad) a blind looks. Also, leafy oak limbs will hide just about anything as long as they match the surroundings! Just don't get your gun barrel hung in them!!! 😃

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

10-4 on the gun barrel... been there! Yeah the drone footage is telling. I’ll get more of that footage this season to do some comparisons.

@woodduck635 3 года назад

@@SurvivingDuckSeason something else I really noticed in your drone footage last year was how much more muddied up the water looked where ducks were working. When you had been out walking around in the decoys, the water looked a lot more like there were ducks actively feeding there!

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

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@woodduck635 3 года назад

@@SurvivingDuckSeason yeah! That drone footage was very convincing!!!

@ceed9842 2 года назад

I use panels brushed up with natural vegetation!

@chickgirl567 Год назад

You are the best, Mr. Strickland Sir. Excellent presentation and a sense of humor, you are a natural teacher. I am sure your mother is proud. Thank You So Much. 🙂 Andy

@umami0247 3 года назад

Just went on a youth hunt and it is a challenge to keep kids still but it's how you teach them and one day the light goes on and you have a young hunter that now knows to stay still. If you ever hunted with your father as a small child you know what I'm talking about stay calm and let them be kids it will come around. It's not just about killing. It's about passing on knowledge and skill.

@jakemn6462 2 года назад

First year with ducks. Have a spot I do ok on wood ducks and teals when they was here. They didn’t seem to care I was there at all they were landing by me. Now that it’s mostly mallards around I can’t hide good enough from them things.

@tylersGBO 3 года назад

I have a cotton trailer placed on stilts to keep out of the water. I have a permanent blind built on a big pontoon base so it can rise with water level. I just built a big wooden permanent blind just inside the woods parallel with another field. Got to be still, to be still you have to be comfortable. We brush in with cane we cut locally and throw some brush on top. Our floating blind, a beaver has made a lodge up against the side of it and really makes it blend in with the environment. The beaver sits in his lodge while we hunt.

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Cool stuff! Good point on being comfortable... you're right. New product idea! Beaver confidence decoy! We'll make millions $$$

@stephensimmons5397 3 года назад

Hands down the best lol

@daviddenis1295 3 года назад

I’m usually the lead caller in my groups so I wear face paint so I can look up at the ducks and work them, but I tell everyone I’m with that they don’t have to wear face paint unless they want to but if they don’t. I tell them to look down while I’m working ducks to hide their faces

@jimrennie9497 3 года назад

we see tv videos all the time with hunters not concealed well. Invariably the birds flare and they are shooting at birds at long range. There is a better way obviously. This video is helpful in re-inforcing the idea of complete camouflage and sitting still. It works for bow hunting and it works on ducks.

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Right you are.

@mikeries8549 3 года назад

Theres a trade off. You have to see to shoot. To suddenly come out of the dark into the daylight is not easy when you have some guy say, "take em". If you can't react instantly, take the bucket off your head, then shoot three ducks before it falls back down...you have no business in a pit or blind in arkansas. You may as well just not load your gun. Ive hunted where its that farcking camouflaged. It was like sitting in a cardboard box waiting for Santa. If that's your idea of fun...there are hundreds of outfitters around Stuttgart

@gooseflatwaterfowlers 3 года назад

Joel you read my mind on a good topic for a video. We hunt from a variety of blind types skid, pit, layouts, A-Frames, hog panel blinds, and wood built blinds a lot depends on location and how we have to hunt it. On the topic of concealment to me it’s the most important thing getting hid the right way. When we brush one in we try to let nature camo it for us. That does two things it gets natural camo from vines bushes briars and it takes the boxey look away. To me the best spot to build a blind in a thicket and cut little out around it when being built. Cedars and oak limbs make good natural camo when adding supplemental brush. One thing that always take in account is using the shadows to your advantage if it’s a morning hole put the blind on east side afternoon hole put it to the west side. One thing I’ve started doing is taking pictures with a drone to get a birds eye view and see if anything sticks out remember our judges are in the sky. When it comes to camo clothes I try to match my surroundings and go with a darker pattern. Some patterns are to bright and you’ll stick out in some situations but nothing beats dark brown colors the old timers used that for years and it worked just as good. Lastly new hunters need to learn how to be still and learn how to not look up at the ducks and as time goes you’ll learn how to watch ducks either off the water or glance out the corners of your eyes.

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

All excellent advice! My biggest issue from guys in my blind is moving around or looking up at the ducks!

@gooseflatwaterfowlers 3 года назад

One thing I think we as hunters don’t do a good enough job doing is continuing to camo and rebrush blinds throughout the season. Think about you see a faded out blind it sticks out like a sore thumb. Take time and cut fresh brush for it. Cedar trees make excellent brush. Old Christmas trees live and artificial make really good camo. Usually around Christmas you can get good deals on live trees after they get picked through. Wire that to the blind very good camo/brush. Always make sure if you use trees makes sure you tie them on vertically so it will look right. Trees don’t grow horizontally and ducks will pick that out.

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Goose Flat Waterfowlers yeah we have to rebrush our rice stubble and grass blinds in January. The oak ones are usually fine.

@gooseflatwaterfowlers 3 года назад

I remember years ago building blinds out of 4x4 posts and stapling burlap to in and draping burlap over the top half way. We built many of blinds like this right in the middle of Buck brush and we always killed ducks out of it. However I can remember ducks flaring just from us not being hid as good. For some reason back in the day hunters me being one of them didn’t play much attention to detail. What I mean by that is brushing in a blind good so that it’s hid, making sure you’ve got a realistic decoy spread and the are very detailed. It’s like back then we focused more on decoy setup and calling than we did on getting hid. I remember one year we had a horrible year and the following year we got to were it was focus on the details make sure every little detail is covered. After that success rate shot through the roof. I guess some advice I’d give someone new is pay attention to detail in everything hunting wise. I personally think constantly how can I be more successful in the field what do I get better. I’ve heard many hunters always talk about how great those ducks finished we’ve all done that including me. Something that a lot of hunters need to start thinking about is why didn’t this group not finish was it someone moving, not good brushing of blind, calling too much, or was the setup wrong. One thing I’ve noticed when I see some ducks not finish in a hole is maybe the wind messed them up that they could get down in there it might be a swirling wind. When stuff like that happens hunters need to take note of it and how to correct it for next time to be successful.

@teekay1785 3 года назад

yep, pit blinds are the pits lol. They stink and messy sometimes rusty sometimes standing in water etcbut I dont hate anywhere that is good for killing ducks especially in close. We hunt mainly in floating blinds brushed with oak and buck brush and I try to use vine near the shooting hole edges because it doesn't tend to stick you (just dont use poison ivy) . I like morning glory or grape vine or most any dark colored vine and there is a marsh vine that naturally grows in buck brush and moist areas but I dont know the name of it. One thing we do that helps a lot is cover up the holes that are not being used and we try to hunt every other hole in the blind depending on number of hunters.. I like blinds that enable shooting over the back too but I know thats not great with clients and depends on the placement and wind etc.

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Yeah I forgot about how messy and stinky pits are too! Thanks for sharing your thoughts on blind cover and such!

@kevincooper5917 3 года назад

Do y'all use other people's ducks and tie fishing line to the wings for the flop pictures like yall did with turkeys?

@nohillforahighstepper 7 месяцев назад

I've had ducks flair from my gray beard on a sunny day, decoys that reflected too much sunlight, long blonde haired hunting buddy, reflection from glasses, and one time the angle of the sun was not converse to the axis of the earth (no idea why they flared). Just like turkey and deer hunting, it only takes the animal feeling like something is not right to blow the opportunity.

@pearljameric 3 года назад

Am I supposed to pull the jerk line even when the birds are coming in? Or should I stop before so they don't see me move? Thanks

@brianbaker3767 3 года назад

You know you dont want them seeing you pull that cord! Pull it the same times you call them.. I pull em every once in a while just to keep some ripples on the water

@pearljameric 3 года назад

@@brianbaker3767 I thought about making some kind of pulley that sits below the water on the boat that way there is not a long line exposed in the air when im pulling it.

@brianbaker3767 3 года назад

@@pearljameric we just put a decoy weight between the decoys and us

@SlappyPappy123 3 года назад

2:36 thems fightin words

@randywatson9585 3 года назад

“Why’d they flair!?!” “‘Cause you pie-faced em. Keep your head down.”

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

You know that’s right!

@mikeries8549 3 года назад

35 years ago it was easy. These days it's not. My old tried and true boat-blind rig got to be no good because of "the hole". They see a hole and it's over. You gotta brush the inside of your blind too.

@brandoncorley1514 3 года назад

I moslty just hide behing a tree or use natural brush around whatever hole i hunt that day. Looking into getting some camo systems netting to bring with me this year snd throwing over a couple sticks in the mud if i can't find a good hide or tree. I try to keep it simple cuz I moslty hunt solo with a kayak to get there. Any advice on hiding solo thats lightweight ?

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

How about using your kayak as a layout boat? Camo it up and you’re low profile.

@KethenGoesHam 3 года назад

A ghillie suit and a 5 gallon bucket has done me good

@DalonCole 3 года назад

Best blind is a huge tree out in the water and sit down next to it in the shadows and don’t move

@alexryherd9810 3 года назад

As far as blinds go, I live in Central Illinois where the management is garbage due to no funding and on corp ground were lucky to hide behind some trees lol. It gets it done but the beavers like to pick apart your natural cover all winter.

@rickcampbell3058 3 года назад

What outfitter do you guide for ?

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Cypress Crossing. www.cypresscrossingduckclub.com

@hardh2ogillz Год назад

Those are nice - but what about boat blinds for those of us who don’t have hunt clubs near us.

@SurvivingDuckSeason Год назад

I guess you missed the part of the video about boat blinds. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@theklutzyoutdoorsman5265 3 года назад

I hunt public land in MN so I pretty much have to hide in the cattails as best I can. Or I like to hunt out of a duck boat + blind when I hunt with a good friend.

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

I would guess it's decently easy to hide in the cattails? I've done it a few times, and it was pretty awesome.

@theklutzyoutdoorsman5265 3 года назад

@@SurvivingDuckSeason The problem is that you need to be RIGHT on the edge of the cattails because then you can't shoot or swing your gun

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Gotcha 👍🏻

@teekay1785 3 года назад

Here is a link to a video of one of our hunts that include drone and DUCKEYE view with a floating 36 foot blind brushed with oak . You can see how much even a well brushed blind is noticeable but this one is so big looks like a huge brush pile. There is a boat port that floats with the blind with camp netting loosely tied to trees etc and some brush hanging down from top. We often have two 16-44 or 48 John Boats in the boat port. The main reason I made them floating is several people that hunt there have health and joint problems that prevent climbing ladders etc as an option ands its easy for everyone. We try to use White oak as much as possible it has a color thats more desirable in my view . When we have the time and energy we use more buck brush especially on front wall. There are willow trees at ends that break up outline too. I know there aren't many leaves on trees behind us but there are a few oaks there. NOTICE the BLACK HOLES of the shooting spots on the drone views and the WHITE FACES. The regulars all mask up after sun up good. Here I wish we had covered up some holes to demonstrate the difference but didn't think about it and didn't know we would have the drone that day. Thanks to PHIL BLAKELY for filming some that day when he wasn't shooting! I will try to find still photos of the same blind in buck brush and add later. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CFQoy7sZdN4.html

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Cool video. Yeah drone footage is telling. I notice it with some of our blinds too. It’s may be part of the reason why we do so much better on sunny days.

@teekay1785 3 года назад

@@SurvivingDuckSeason Yes I am very sure that the clear sunny days help conceal,emt tremendously. Especially tell in getting mallards all the way to the water and closer.

@mikeries8549 3 года назад

They see everything on cloudy days. No glare or shadows.

@getstuffdonelandscapemaint1858 3 года назад

I love making natural blinds on public lands, but I think I want a panel blind

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Right on!

@RetrieverTrainingAlone 3 года назад

Up and down the flyway ducks get shot at from large rectangular blinds. Ducks learn to avoid large rectangular objects. I prefer a low profile, layout shooting from a jet sled...typically I get close shooting and ducks do not flare because of the low profile : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--Ua_2JXiyvo.html

@tacticalmarshing9548 3 года назад

I think learning how to hunt with out a blind is key to learning how to hide a blind

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

good one!

@mikeries8549 3 года назад

You'd never believe the stuff we get away with. I'm in central illinois and the ducks are pretty dumb for about a month. Up by Ottawa, Illinois (not canada) theyre just plain retarded. All you have to do is sit on a log and wear camo.

@Drblood6721 3 года назад

The "hands down" was from the know it all last video! But my first ever blind last year was destroyed on public land. People unscrewed my cedar, broke my shelving and ruined my setup. Hard to see after all the hard work my dad and I put in. Stinks to see the bad people in the sport ruining it for others.

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Drblood67 man I hate to read that. People are so selfish and disrespectful sometimes. We just have to keep being better.

@Drblood6721 3 года назад

@@SurvivingDuckSeason Yes sir. I bought a new boat, blind and am transitioning to a more public area to hopefully stop it. Maybe if people know they're being watched they'll be less likely? Who knows. Thanks for the concealment tips, I was waiting on this one!

@Swygard 3 года назад

Hands down the best video on blinds I’ve seen

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Brad Swygard of course it is 👍🏻😬

@jasonvelasquez6673 3 года назад

I was standing out of a creek duck hunting....saw a deer trotting right at me (camo'd head to toe) didn't move and it was 15 yrds from me....slight move the deer froze then took off. Lesson don't move. It's the first thing I say in the duck blind.

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Fun story. It’s cool seeing other wildlife when duck hunting.

@mikeries8549 3 года назад

Hunt a lake called SanChris Lake where they have quite a few albino deer. Had one almost in the boat one morning. Theyre pretty tame because we can't shoot them.

@mikebednarek245 3 года назад

Pit blinds are awsome. Use fast grass on them with some natural vegitation. Disappear!

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

I knew someone would say it!!

@adleylu Год назад

Our birds in south Louisiana are so pressured that our blinds have to be be brushed so much as to render them nearly unusable. Maybe I’m exaggerating a bit, but it sure takes away much of the enjoyment of watching the birds work. Unpressured birds, I’ve hunted unconcealed from my dove bucket and hidden behind my gun barrel, lol. That is a lot more enjoyable and much easier shooting!

@tylergillmani5567 Год назад

To be fair I’ve hid behind standing trees with no brush and had ducks come in, but it is not advised

@earnestbass4043 2 года назад

The most effective blinds allow sunlight penetration- no dark box shadows. But SIT STILL!

@Swygard 3 года назад

We pile up tumble weeds

@WhatupG 3 года назад

I have taken my wife with me a few times... and once... she popped her head out of the blind... I won't ever live down what I said... "Get down, your face will scare the ducks!" she's gotten a lot of mileage out of that one... gotta stay hidden... and don't move!

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

HAHA! Yeah, sometimes the wording has to be put a little differently for the lady folk!

@Swygard 3 года назад

Have you got to go hunting since then?

@WhatupG 3 года назад

@@Swygard oh yeah... but she hasn't been with me since then LOL

@joshchoate9499 3 года назад

I guide and have people trying to follow the ducks circling with their barrow 2ft out of the blind you would be surprised how much people move in a blind and don't thing ducks can see you

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Yep!

@mikeries8549 3 года назад

The trick is to move very slowwww. If you suddenly jerk or make a banging noise you're on the shit list. OK ill share what I've been seeing and other ppl shared with me. Ducks are getting wicked smart about blinds. If they suspect there's a blind they will fly right over the top up high so they can look at it straight down..if there's a black hole...theyre gone. Its gotten where concealment from above is extremely important. Im working on a flip cover for my boat blind. My blind is 45 years old and worked for decades. Its just old school camo gore tex. Tent on a boat sort of thing. I never had to brush it. At first I'd just muddy it up a bit. Today?? I've got 40 pounds of raffia tied on. I had to build a hard cover and now I need a cover to cover the shooting hole. Its gotten crazy where everyone has a boat blind on a lake I hunted solo for decades. Ducks get training up here in yankeeland. Sorry..

@jacobberryhill8222 3 года назад

I hunt from an old homemade 2 man blind that is anchored down and the lake rises over each year

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Jacob Berryhill that’s pretty cool!

@kimlowry4229 2 года назад

I use face paint

@patrickbordelon3654 3 года назад

Everyone's great grandfathers are looking down in disgust cause he your to smoke 1000s of ducks in red plaid jackets lol

@mikeries8549 3 года назад

I fell in so I rung it all out real quickly. Red wool flannel shirt yep. Was in a boat blind with a heater and killed limit b4 I got fully dry. Never surrender...

@mikenicholas6921 6 месяцев назад

My grand daddy killed ducks by the truckload. Long before commercial camo was available. I totally agree about brushing your blind. And keeping still with your face hidden

@kindredspirittv8598 3 года назад

Hahaha on the Hands Down Camo

@kurtroberts2310 3 года назад

I still don’t get it

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Kurt Roberts check out this video and you'll get it! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hCjH6Ucfnb4.html

@kurtroberts2310 3 года назад

Hands down the quickest response I’ve ever received. 🤠

@earnestbass4043 2 года назад

Pasty white faces

@terrymunn1224 7 месяцев назад

We have to move around with the ducks so always a natural or boat blind .We do not have the ducks like you guys .Just about anyone could get ducks with those numbers and get away with making a lot of mistakes because more ducks are just going to come in. Most guys making these videos would suck hunting at it in our area.

@danzdog 2 года назад

Rice blinds…

@WilliamSmith-uo4zw 3 года назад

never trust a hunter that says "Hands down the best"

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

William Smith 👈🏻this guy gets it!

@richsmith8600 3 года назад

Just lost all credibility with me on that one. Lol 😂

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Rich Smith with what?

@richsmith8600 3 года назад

Just that I got the inside joke from your video.

@TheSumdogmillionaire 3 года назад

@@richsmith8600 I want to know!

@chrisduke4522 2 года назад

Hands down the best😉

@jimmylemons920 3 года назад

I got an email back saying your inbox was full

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Jackson Lessmann thanks for letting me know. I guess a bunch of people sent in pix this morning lol

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Jackson Lessmann ok I cleared it out. Somebody sent some very large pix and it maxed me out 😂

@BeatRock253 2 года назад

"Hands down the best" now you've been canceled!

@mattbugg4568 3 года назад

The best way to make them flair is visible decoy lines. Or one around the back of a decoy, or having water they can see through and see the lines. I have a guy that hunts in a orange hat and it doesn't seem to matter. If you go to the park in town wearing street clothes ducks will still land in the pond next to you while you're walking smoking drinking coffee and have a black dog in the green grass. However if you put something in the water the ducks don't like they will not come.

@mattbugg4568 3 года назад

If you take a peice of camo blind material and put it in your cap and wrap it around your shoulders and waist kinda like a big puffy shroud that breaks up your silhouette thats all you need. Also lounge chairs instead of uprights work better too. The reason is your shadow being broken up is just as important as not looking up. You don't necessarily have to be concealed as you have to not look like a human.

@rhettgreen2305 3 года назад

Max 5 a stool and some cat tails is all it takes

@RokctheLabrador Год назад

You literally made a video why ducks spook but you don't talk about hunting 9 to 12 clients in the same blind on the same birds. That is never and has never been hunting. 40 shells per volley is way closer to commercial gunner harvest or punt gun depreciation. No benefit to wildlife and wreckless disregard of the animal.

@duckbrian7973 3 года назад

Pit blinds are horrible, no no no no.

@SurvivingDuckSeason 3 года назад

Yep... not much else to say!

@mikeries8549 3 года назад

I don't think I've ever been more miserable than being in a goose pit and thats saying a lot. Ive done some pretty miserable things. My shangri-la is a big long blind nestled up against trees and a little river called bayou deview behind me. Thats the ticket.

@fjt4700 Год назад

I got dummies coming in 2-3 hours after first light an just sit right in the open most often shooting over my decoys and or sky busting anything that I call in