I have a couple of the original minute man blinds. Ya, I know – very old. Anyways, still very functional and has like them for various spots in my farm. However the cloth is fading and they have such a bright shiny appearance now. Anyone have experience in dye or a treatment to darken and dull up. I usually brush them in well, but as you can see in the pic they are getting washed out
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Spray paint them with matte paints. We paint layout blinds for waterfowl hunting all of the time.
Or mix up dirt and water into a mud slurry and mud the blind. let it dry, then lightly brush off excess with a hand broom.
Boil walnuts and then spray the liquid on it.
Kinda like what I used to do to traps to season them.
Maybe you still do that? You still trapping?
Boil walnuts and then spray the liquid on it.
Kinda like what I used to do to traps to season them.
Maybe you still do that? You still trapping?
Only damage control work. Worth doing a small sample piece
“Or mix up dirt and water into a mud slurry and mud the blind. let it dry, then lightly brush off excess with a hand broom”.
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We do this with our ground blinds as well. 
Btw – fabric is more like canvas, not nylon or synthetic. Concerned that the rubbed in mud will break down fibers. I did that with some sheet canvas years ago and it didn’t hold up to the weather long
Use coffee and tea to stain it? Can get a pretty wide range of browns from a strong coffee to a light tea.
I’d be tempted to try good old Rit fabric dye in a spray bottle or even a pump sprayer. Easy to mix, fast to apply, and best of all pretty cheap. Remember to use dye fixer as the last step to lock in the dye, I’d say this is worth doing especially to get fade resistance.
You can get all kinds of colors, black, brown, tan, green, etc. Pretty cheap as well, about $8 per color and that’ll make plenty of dye.
I’d personally try Rit first because it’s the cheaper option. I’d say spray paint is the only other option, but it’s going to take a lot of rattle cans to paint each blind.
Get a case of Red Man chewing tobacco. Chew, spit, repeat.
Looks like all my dads camo pants that he wont retire.
Looks like all my dads camo pants that he wont retire.
Be nice to us old farts. We don’t believe in the disposable world. Plus, this blind isn’t that old, probably bought it in 1992 or 93 
whoa, maybe I have gotten some use out of these blinds 
I’d be tempted to try good old Rit fabric dye in a spray bottle or even a pump sprayer. Easy to mix, fast to apply, and best of all pretty cheap. Remember to use dye fixer as the last step to lock in the dye, I’d say this is worth doing especially to get fade resistance.
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