Success!!!

josephmrtn · November 9, 2013

Eventually you should look into layout blinds or make a "coffin blind" from wood. You need to "grass" or "brush" them pattern.regardless of the camo pattern. Some recommend "mudding" them as well, that is painting them with mud before using, I don't find that necessary, but I certainly don't wash them either when they get muddy until the season ends anyway...

Besides the low profile the other advantage is that you can "flag" geese. I suppose that can be done in an upright blinds as well, but it seems that wouldn't look as natural. Flagging is just as important as calling and decoys.

The disadvantages to layouts are that they are harder to shoot from and you must watch out for road hunters or on foot pot shooters who will take a rifle shot into the decoys. A few goose hunters have been killed this way in Canada by farmers and one in Iowa by a deer hunter who pulled off the road and claimed he was shooting at a coyote. Off course it is illegal to use rifles for waterfowl to begin with... And, if you use a retriever, the dog must be completely steady or staked on a short chain or cable, or it could get shot if it lunges forward at the same time you shoot at low or landing birds. If you kill a few geese it might not be intuitive why you need a dog, but if you do a lot of shooting or the X is located where a few birds will sail off a crop field into heavy cover, the need for a dog is more obvious... The "X", by the way is a waterfowler's term for the location the birds are landing on a field or in the water. If you set your decoys on or close to the X, you have a better chance than pulling in what is called "traffic birds" or "traffic"..

Heres pics from this morns hunt...

Winchester Blind Side!!!!!!!!