RE: wood blinds
i believe the best way to make one is just that. To use whatever dead branches and leaves we find. Their are never so much of a good camo as to use what God has given use in natural camo. i have built makeshift blinds before and they have worked well. Just make it a few months early so the deer get use to seeing the difference before the hunting pressure starts. try to stay away from bransches that yuou cut down full of leaves. If you do do that know that when you come back in the fall that your blind my be a little skimpy on cover for the leaves had died and fell off so thicken it up real good.