Building an A frame ideas.

We’re running A frames this year for every field hunt. We try to be next to field roads, ditches, waterways, etc if possible but we have also come off these areas up to 50 yards or more and did well. Like others have said, looks like a spot that wasn’t worked by the farmer. Besides being more comfortable, our shooting has been much better. We’re cutting more out of each flock and rarely a cripple.

 

That looks great! is that just chicken wire?

 

1/2 " x 4' wire is what we use. You could use chicken wire or any other metal or plastic fencing for support. We like it for leaning our guns on as barrels don't get hung up like they may with chicken wire. I have used ezfab plastic fence for a portable blind I made with 3/4" EMT that I used to take out on boat for marsh hunting occasionally. Made 2 12' sections with 3/4" EMT every 4' connected to 4' plastic fence. Tied fastgrass Matt's and wove stretch bungee across top and middle and also put natural switch grass on. Left bottom EMT extend 10" and flattened out for pushing in marsh. You could roll and unroll the 2 12' sections quickly and essentially make an 8' a frame by making 2 L shaped sections out of each 12' section or just stretch out to a full 12' section if you had good cover from behind.

 

Too expensive and every time something scratches the paint off you have a shine source.

 

Someone posted up on Craigslist recently offering to make various custom width and length a frames out of aluminum. Pretty expensive though.

 

Great design I'm going to build some like you did.

I'm trying to decide on size . I hunt solo a bit but we often hunt up to four people.

How many peiope are you hunting out of your 8' blinds?

 

3 grown men usually but have squeezed 4. We kept our blinds at 8' to move them around the farm in the utility trailers we have. Sometimes we move them brushed and other times we dismantle the 4 sides. I have gone to stretch cord to hold the grass now versus tire wire so undoing the corners is easy to rebrush when taking down and setting back up.

I think 10 or 12' would be better for 4 people.

We have a bunch and put to or 3 together at times. I would make some L shaped rear and stake down the blind if you are going to leave out so heavy winds don't blow it in an open field. We have had a couple blow like tumbleweeds fully brushed so we try to stake them all.