On Killerweed....

Last week Matt told me that we'd be hunting in pretty much crap pasture covered in all sorts of rushes, weeds and other assorted crap. In my mind's eye I pictured brown top and rushes, so thought that rather than grassing the layout, I'd use the "Winter Wheat" Avery Killerweed that I had lying around.

Here are my impressions:

• One box is supposed to cover a layout. Uh-uh, no way. 2 boxes will almost do the job - I was into the 3rd box before I was happy with coverage.
• The texture is quite good and disguises the blind well enough
• Its a damn sight lighter than grass to carry...
• Even so, you can't ditch it at the end of the hunt so carrying it out again is unavoidable
• The colours weren't quite right, a bit too much yellow, but that's my fault for assuming we'd be on brown top and the actual hunting took place in green grass with rushes
• Next time I'll use god's own green grass.
• There are never any shortcuts that work as well as the real thing.

Here are some shots

I might have a shot at dying it a bit greener - could be a winner after that. I probably wouldn't go out of my way to buy it again.