I/m tired of chopping switchcane and buckbrush at 4 am.

So this year I'm buying a pop up blind for the 1848 GD. I was wondering if you guys had any experience with different brands: avery, beavertail, cabelas northern flight, etc....

Let me know the pros and cons of what you guys have.

Im leaning towards the avery, but it look like a pain in the ass to install.. thanks brothers!

I have owned and / or hunted extensively out of three store-bought fabric blinds. Beavertail, MB QuickFlip and MB Shaggy.

The pros of the Beavertail is that it is absolutely the quickest to set up and take down. If you find a need to drop the blind freqently during a hunt this one is great. It also provides good cover. You stick your head out of a velcro-adjustable opening flap that you can make very small. Great visibility without birds passing over seeing into the boat. It has vegetation pockets instead of straps...something that needs to be modified IMO and can be by the owner. Otherwise, a great blind.

The MB Quickflip, like the Beavertail, is a fabric blind. It's benefits are a retractable roof that will completely keep the rain off you in a downpour while providing great overhead cover. It stretches from end to end on the boat, even covering the motor. Retracting the roof to shoot is easy but creates motion so you have to move fast when the time comes to "takem". This blind has the greatest variety of mounting hardware options...no bars to trip over. These blinds take longer than the Beavertail or grass / shaggy blinds to erect. Maybe a minute or so to set up and stretch the fabric over bow and stern.

I currently own a shaggy with the snow panels. It and the standard marsh color shaggy are essentially grass-style blinds (frame-wise) with open top and ghillie material panels instead of grass. This blind is deadly, especially when the shaggy material is augmented with some freshly cut local cover. The snow shaggy is very effective when everything turns white. More so than draping sheets over your existing blind. These style blinds, like grass blinds, are easy to set up.

Hope this helps.

Look at the Cabela's Northern flight and build it yourself. Built mine out of aluminum square tubing. $200 for everything.

My vote is for avery. I've had 3 and am about to buy a 4th for the new rig. I had a "pop-up brand" and a beavertail and they just arnet built for shooting mallards in the timber.