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Postby capt1972 » Wed Jun 20, 2012 8:51 pm

I know its just raffia grass but has anyone used it? Pros/Cons. Do you recommend something better?
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Re: Flyway grass

Postby duckkillerclyde » Wed Jun 20, 2012 9:19 pm

capt1972 wrote:I know its just raffia grass but has anyone used it? Pros/Cons. Do you recommend something better?



cut down natural stuff. That is better in my opinion.
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Re: Flyway grass

Postby capt1972 » Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:21 pm

duckkillerclyde wrote:
capt1972 wrote:I know its just raffia grass but has anyone used it? Pros/Cons. Do you recommend something better?



cut down natural stuff. That is better in my opinion.

I was talking about using it for filler. I always use natural on top.
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Re: Flyway grass

Postby duckkillerclyde » Wed Jun 20, 2012 11:11 pm

I always try to cover the thing completely with natural but sometimes the tide does not allow for that.
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Re: Flyway grass

Postby assateague » Mon Jun 25, 2012 1:18 pm

Must be nice being allowed to use natural vegetation.
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Re: Flyway grass

Postby capt1972 » Mon Jun 25, 2012 8:38 pm

assateague wrote:Must be nice being allowed to use natural vegetation.

I'll send you some. :thumbsup:
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Re: Flyway grass

Postby Olly » Mon Jun 25, 2012 8:41 pm

assateague wrote:Must be nice being allowed to use natural vegetation.


Explain please.

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Re: Flyway grass

Postby Bufflehead » Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:10 pm

Olly wrote:
assateague wrote:Must be nice being allowed to use natural vegetation.


Explain please.

Sent from your honey hole.

i would guess he hunts on a federal refuge or national seashore and isn't allowed to cut vegitation
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Re: Flyway grass

Postby Olly » Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:14 pm

Hmmm that sucks. I use a lot of natural vegetation, been making grass mats the Indabros way since last season.
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Re: Flyway grass

Postby Bufflehead » Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:18 pm

Olly wrote:Hmmm that sucks. I use a lot of natural vegetation,

me too
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Re: Flyway grass

Postby assateague » Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:16 am

Bufflehead wrote:
Olly wrote:
assateague wrote:Must be nice being allowed to use natural vegetation.


Explain please.

Sent from your honey hole.

i would guess he hunts on a federal refuge or national seashore and isn't allowed to cut vegitation


Yep, National Seashore. Even so, anywhere else in the state you aren't allowed to use or "manipulate" phragmites to hunt from. I have no idea why, especially since it's about 95% of our marshes here. Technically, I'm breaking the law when I hunt from shore and use a clothespin to "bend" the reeds where they cover me up. I hate this state.
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Re: Flyway grass

Postby blackrhino » Fri Jun 29, 2012 3:52 pm

Olly wrote:Hmmm that sucks. I use a lot of natural vegetation, been making grass mats the Indabros way since last season.

Could you explain that method? I must have missed it over there.
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Re: Flyway grass

Postby Olly » Fri Jun 29, 2012 4:02 pm

blackrhino wrote:
Olly wrote:Hmmm that sucks. I use a lot of natural vegetation, been making grass mats the Indabros way since last season.

Could you explain that method? I must have missed it over there.


I'll be making more in the next week or two. I'll post some pics of the process. If you don't wanna wait until then I'll try to explain.

Take two 2ft 2x2's and hang them from somewhere (I use my garage door) hang them right next to each other from the middle of each. Then also near the middle you will string 8ft of twine in a "U" shape so it's 4ft long. Then you place some grass long ways into both of the "U" about 5" high. Twist both 2x2's so the twine twist. Repeat over and over until you have a rough 4x4' sheet.

This is really more of a modified Inda way I took the idea and added a 2nd 2x2 I think they only used one.
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Flyway grass

Postby Flightstopper » Sat Jun 30, 2012 7:06 pm

That would be a Rick Hall original
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