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Late summer project

NWBuck

NWBuck

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Put the finishing touches on a late summer project some friends and I worked on during the last couple of weeks...think it turned out pretty nice all things considered.

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Once we got it in place, I tended to a few last minute details (painting, shooting lanes, etc) while Hunter did his part on a late season flush of button weeds in the turnip patch. A view from inside the wagon blind.

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NWBuck
 
Nice work on the blind, I swear some of these blinds are nicer than the first house we lived in! :D
 
what did you do for windows? I have one under construction just like that rightnow, and havent figured out what to use. Thanks
 
flugge said:
what did you do for windows?
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That's the most important part of the project in my opinion. We use plexiglass, and make a groove for the plexiglass to slide in using 1x4 or even 1x2. Add in some weatherstripping and it does a pretty nice job of keeping out wind and rain.

I didn't take pics of the windows in this one, but for reference, here's what the window looks like in another blind we made a couple years back.

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The window in the picture is 1 foot high and 2 feet wide, and the blind sits up about 6 feet off the ground. You can see these are horizontal sliders. In the wagon blind in the original post, we decided to make the windows taller. 18 inches high and 2 feet wide...primarily to make it easier to shoot a bow out of. As a result, we had to make the sliders vertical rather than horizontal. We can either open them manually, or if you look close you can see a rope hanging in front of the window. This is run through a fence staple near the roof to create a sort of pulley system. Pretty slick actually. Anyway, that gives you a basic idea, but the sliding plexiglass system is what we've found is the easiest to make, quiet during the hunt, and reasonably weatherproof. Good luck.

NWBuck
 
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