My dad use to have an expensive primos blind and everytime u turned around he was replacing the fiberglass poles, I bought a Ameristep 3man this year from walmart"yea walmart" 70 bucks and havent had a single issue with it. I put it up in the morning before daylight making all kinds of racket about 730 or so i had seven does all around me and never paid me a bit of attention! It has velcro mesh screens but i pull them down every morning i set in it and still see deer its doesnt seem to bother them at all!!!