Start of the 2 story blind....Here we go....

[Texas8point]

I'm speechless........................................

[CarbonFlinger]

Def the coolest blind I have ever seen!

Incredible skills sir!

[Rwc]

There are no words in my vocabulary that I could use that would do this blind build justice.

But I do want to visit it one day!

Rwc

[macoop]

I hung the solar panel and installed the power plant on the inside today. I moved the feeder a few yards closer and cleared a few branches out of the shooting lane. I put 1000 lbs. of corn in the feeder, threw out a bushel of pears from the neighbors tree, cleaned out the inside and loaded all of my equipment up and filled the feeder at the Shack and came home. I am officially finished!
There are a couple of far away pics for someone that wanted them.

I hope the next pic I post will be an LDP pic in front of this thing.

[Bone Thug]

Incredible build!!!!!

Can't get any better than that....

[Bowhuntin_Toona]

Wow!!!!!!!!

[J.B.]

this thang is so awesome. Congrats on an incredible build, I hope it brings many generations of enjoyment!

[bvfd25]

Wow

[Tmag]

Thanks for the distance pics Mark, truly a thing of beauty. Dale is right, bar is raised once again.

[Sneaky]

Are the cedar pickets installed inside affixed with a finishing nailer?

[SwampRabbit]

good greif.

[Patton]

Congrats on the completion! I know you put in some serious hours-and it really shows because that blind is bad to the bone

[jkelbe]

Well done. I would love to live in a house as nice as that.

[macoop]

Are the cedar pickets installed inside affixed with a finishing nailer?

Yes. I put all interior cedar up with the finish nail gun and 1-1/4" finish nails. A framing nailer or screws will just split the old slats so a finish nailer works great.

[macoop]

Well done. I would love to live in a house as nice as that.

Thanks for the compliment. I didn't keep every receipt but from the tally in my head, this blind cost me about $1400.00. All of the stone was free. All of the fence was free. Concrete and framing lumber was the main expense and then there was 8 months of labor. That was the killer part for this old man. I think I ended up using about 8 tons of stone. Keep in mind I had to go pick it up off of the ground at various job sites and load it on a trailer, haul it down there, unload it, put it up on a scaffold, and then lay it in place. There was a lot of labor involved in the "free" part.