Hunters: Serious Question..

[BigL]

When I repaint this one in the off season it will be in a lighter shade of green or brown. Thanks for posting this. I'm going to take a pic tomorrow morning of the it so I can let my wife match the more dominate color around it this time of year. I know it doesn't matter, I just like it to look camouflaged

[BigL]

Where and what stands are you buying that you are getting 30 years out of?

I built one with my dad that I'm currently sitting in that is 28 yrs old. I need to replace a few boards and repaint it but it's still holding strong.

[sendit]

The blinds I build do last 25+ years easily. Some are metal and some are wood. They get painted when built and that’s it. It does help break the box up at a distance.

[HeyMikey]

I thought you had a serious question

^^^^^ this X 1000

Lady, you have way too much time on your hands, if you're worrying about stuff like this

[waterspiderpd27]

I killed a decent deer out of this blind weekend before last.

[wudduk]

I usually paint mine solid black. Paint is mainly to protect the wood.

[W-O]

I paint my stand a feeders with mistake outdoor paint from Walmart or home depot in earth tones. I try to breakup the outline mainly. I did paint the bottom of my stand and feeder a light blue in the hopes wasp would not nest under them. Now the headboard I made for my bed at camp is camo, because the lease boss made a comment about color blind deer and camo. He questioned people always wearing camo so I make a point to camo up.

[Boar Stalker]

Cuz if it ain’t Camo it’s just an outhouse...

Our outhouse is painted camo

[asu-indian]

Nope. Doesn't matter.

[Slicefixer]

Depends upon what part of the world you're standing in.... IMOP

Where I grew up hunting and still hunt the majority of the time....NE TX, SW AR, NW LA you'd better go way BEYOND "camo" or you've got virtually ZERO chance of seeing, much less shooting, a truly mature buck.....you can also pretty much forget sitting staring at corn feeders too....hand corn is a different story....

In KS you can pop up a blind early enough and they'll ignore it pretty quickly.....

In S TX, on a quality ranch, you can shoot a mature buck riding around on a high rack, drinking beer, and watching a football game on your phone.... I've seen it with my own eyes.....on the King they've rolled down the electric wind and shot em out of the window at 25 yards.... lease manager told me that one and showed me where it happened...

Now, before the flame fest starts I realize most S TX hunting isn't like this or this easy, but, it's a LOT easier/simpler than anywhere else I've been lucky enough to hunt.....(would still drive 12 hours to go again....😉 )

So, IF you're really serious about killing a truly mature deer, +/- 6.5, in most parts of the world you'd better go well beyond spray paint on a box.....unless you leave the box there for 10 years, then it might work....

[Slicefixer]

Examples....

I realize I go overboard.....Got burned a few times early on ..... learned my lesson.....





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[TxSon1836]

Examples....

I realize I go overboard.....Got burned a few times early on ..... learned my lesson.....





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Now thats Camo! you hunting deer or hiding from the cops in those things! lol great set ups!

[Slicefixer]

Now thats Camo! you hunting deer or hiding from the cops in those things! lol great set ups!

Ain't talking .....Hehehe

(thanks.....lotta work, but worth it....cool to hide from em 100%)

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[Jefecinco]

Because it needs to be painted to be sealed anyway, and it entertained the wife and kids. Told them do whatever they wanted.

[Tx_Wader]

Have to paint it if I build it and always have a couple of cans of brown and grey spray paint around somewhere.