Bass Tender as a duck blind?

[Bmac]

Anyone used one of the poly/plastic Basstender boats as a duck blind? I found one in great shape for a good price but am not sure how it will hold up to ducky (cold) weather. It is a 10.5' long and 5' wide, 16.5" deep. It has 2 swivel seats, livewell/storage areas, trolling motor and lights. It will fit in the back of the truck and holds about 575 lbs. It has holes/brackets already in place to rig up a blind. I don't really need it but could leave it at a friends on a lake I hunt making it very easy to jump in and go.

Where is that thread about us buying more stuff we don't need every year???
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[DEERHNTR]

I wouldn't take one of those things anywhere but a pond or very small body of water. If thats where you intend to use it then I would probably make a nice little hunting boat.

If you plan on using it in big water I think its a bad idea.

[LilyDuck]

I think that Bow Hunter Brandon has one of these...There is pictures in his profile...I bet he would be the best person to talk too...Try and maybe get some information on what type of water he goes on...

Good Luck
Jason

[Bow Hunter Brandon]

Yep I Aparently like to punish myself so I took the one I had and built a natural blind for it the first year. I also built a cart to hall it into a beaver pond. We did shoot ducks out of it but bare bones its 100 lbs. Then you add the seat blind motor shells guns. It gets heavy fast.

Last year I painted it added a dog platform and a fast grass blind to it. Most like a box blind with the roof. I decided I would only use it where I could drop it out of the back of the truck into the water.
I didnt think it made a good shooting platform at all with the blind on it but we did kill ducks out of it the one time out.

Now the fast grass is off it and its siting in the UP. I think the only thing I would use it for now would be to hall it back to a pond and leave it with some ores. Then when I wanted to hunt that pond I could use it to get there and back..

Sorry to be so negative about it but If you dont already own on I wouldnt ;)

That said it was still a fun ride trying to make it work for what its not designed to do.

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/541/medium/504003_10_11_duck_698_trial_run_with_the_cart.JPG


http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/541/medium/5040boat_2.JPG