black blinds

[Berger]

I wonder if Avery has ever thought of making a black blind or black blind cover?

The material used on the flagden portion of the finisher matches our fields perfectly, not so much with the shodowgrass, max 4 and khaki colors.

To answer your question,, I do mud my blinds and quite good thank you, but if you have ever mudded a blind you know it comes out brown not black, and dirt up here is black...

Maybe spraypaint? is that the answer I will get

we were thinking of taking a snow cover apart at the seams and making one out of heavy black fabric,, maybe thats the only way?

just wondering if anybody else hunts fields that are black?

[Jocelyn "Josh" Léger]

In Central Canada, I have hunted quite a bit in burned stubble fields, it's plain black, at the time we made black covers for our blinds and dig the blinds down too, it worked good ...

I guess using spray paint could be another good option ...

[Curt Wilson]

My suggestion is to use a darker color spray paint and then when the paint is wet, sprinkle the dirt from your fields on there and it should work like a charm and match perfect. Let me know if this works for you.

[goosehunter64]

Well, I sprayed my PH black, then brown, then black, and then brown....and blends almost perfect.....and all the while I was guessing this was the chiseled corn field color.

[Culley Wilson]

Berger,

Try and fing some black iron oxide. It is a very common feed ingredient and makes for a very potent organic stain you could say. You could either mix it with your soil and water or attempt to make a slurry from the iron oxide itself. Iron oxide is typically not very soluble.

Minnesota has a good number of commercially raised hogs so you should be able to easily find some. If not, I would reccomend a search engine to locate some.

Good luck!

[CamoHunter870]

I have noticed that too here in Iowa where the fields have black dirt. I use the dirt from our garden which is really black but after mudding it still comes out rather brown. If the chiseld field is wet or freshly tilled, the blind doesn't match it but if the field is dry it matches up preety good.

I wonder if a guy could use planting soil which is really dark to mudd up your blind. Another idea could be to use some spraycan adhesive and then sprinkle the dirt on there.

This actually got me thinking that I should mudd my blinds up again since I haven't done it since September.

[Rick Frisch]

I have seen the spray adhesive glue you are talking about. It is available at most automotive part stores. I have been doing the spray paint thing, but I like the idea of the glue and putting actual dirt on the blind. If anybody tries it, make sure and let us know.

Thanks,

[Jeff Onstot]

Camo --Where in Ia are you from?

The spary adhesive route is one I tried. I took a snow cover and dyed it black, then I took some spray adhesive and sprinjled top soil out of the bag onto it. I used this early and it worked well. The weather, i.e. rain, sun etc did have an effect on it and afet a while it didn't look as good as it did because it did lose some color and fade.

[Jeremy Abbas]

Camo, One of the most effective ways to match up with the Iowa dirt is to take a squirt bottle full of water with you, when the soil is darker than your blind after you have mudded it, just squirt your blind down with the bottle and you match up perfectly, trust me. Doing that and also adding black spray paint lightly in some areas of the blind will allow you to disappear.

[CamoHunter870]

Jeremy
Thanks for that tip on using a squirt bottle to wet up the blind alittle when the dirt is dark. I carried one last year in the Jeep but used it to wash my hands once in awhile after huntin but I will have to put it back in to use on the blinds.

Oscar
I live around central Iowa, west of desmoines.