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Joined: Nov 2013
Posts: 267
4 point
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Joined: Nov 2013
Posts: 267 |
What type is the best bang for the buck? Who has the best quality? I would prefer room for a single shooter. I would also like enough room for a tripod shooting stick. I would like to leave it up as a permanent blind, but how long can I expect it to last? Any thoughts on portable blinds? I need multiples, but don't want to break the bank.
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Joined: Nov 2014
Posts: 16,797 Likes: 3
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
Joined: Nov 2014
Posts: 16,797 Likes: 3 |
I bought the cheapo Ameristep on sale at Walmart for about $45 in January. I'd brush it in. I think I boogered up spot where I put mine up by not having it completely hidden. It will be hid better this year.
“Killing tomorrow’s trophies today.”
On the distance I like to walk to my stands:
“The first 100 yards is also the last 100 yards.”
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Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 9,908 Likes: 2
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 9,908 Likes: 2 |
All the ones I have used for $150 or less are essentially throw away. But I have got a couple seasons out of them. They are not completely waterproof so they leak a little and eventually they just get get tears in them or seams come loose. All in the price range are cheaply made. I prefer the ones that have the windows in the corners so you can't see directly through them. The ones that have a window all the way around seems like don't work as well for me. Animals can see you move. i.e. the Crush and Brickhouse Ameristep style is what I like better.
I have a steel platform that Ameristep once sold that you put a Ground Blind on top of and I have used it for years now. It actually isn't bad just not real high. The main problem with these blinds is in Velcro and bad attachments on the windows and window flaps.
Some of the more expensive ones are much nicer like the Double Bulls but I'm too cheap to buy one.
No government employees were harmed in the making of this mess.
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Joined: Nov 2015
Posts: 21,456
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Nov 2015
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Try hard to find a blind without velcro. With a coupon code, I think I paid around $80 for this one. http://www.cabelas.com/product/Herters-reg-Ground-Blind/2151063.uts I also have an ameristep brickhouse. Hate the velcro.
Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
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14 point
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14 point
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Killzone, but you have to get lucky to find one available and in stock
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Joined: Nov 2015
Posts: 21,456
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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Killzone, but you have to get lucky to find one available and in stock I cant even get their website to load
Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
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Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 24,103 Likes: 296
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 24,103 Likes: 296 |
I've been using a Promos club blind for a few years. If you search you can find them for @ $120. Kept one in a swamp all season last year's and anchored it down real good. You could see how high the water got when it flooded. Blind was just fine.
Dying ain't much of a living boy...Josey Wales
Molon Labe
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Posts: 169
3 point
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ameristep brickhouse has pleant of room and can be found for under $100
"It is not the violence that sets a man apart. It's the distance he's prepared to go."
-Forrest Bondurant-
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Joined: Apr 2017
Posts: 18,058 Likes: 43
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
Joined: Apr 2017
Posts: 18,058 Likes: 43 |
The majority of my blinds are Ameristep Brickhouses but I've also been real pleased with the Bass Pro Blackout X72 and X83 blinds.
We’re not dead. We just smell that way. Dayum. - AC870
Yessir! I’m always gonna shoot what makes me happy and I want everyone else to do the same! If you shoot one be proud of it and don’t worry what anyone else thinks. - SJ22
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Posts: 10,746 Likes: 26
8 point
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8 point
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 10,746 Likes: 26 |
Check out sportsmansguide.com
Two roads diverged in the woods and I took the one with deep ruts,hills and mud.It may be bumpy but WHAT A RIDE!
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Joined: Dec 2016
Posts: 12,677 Likes: 116
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Dec 2016
Posts: 12,677 Likes: 116 |
I primarily hunt from ground blinds and use the Ameristep Brickhouse. I take them out of the woods at the end of season every year and they have lasted for several seasons and have many more left in them.
When I need expert advice I tend to talk to myself
The older I get the better I used to be
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Joined: Aug 2016
Posts: 3,710 Likes: 12
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Aug 2016
Posts: 3,710 Likes: 12 |
I made a blind out of Privacy Fence. Lady at school want to get rid of it. I just screwed it together at corners and cut some windows.
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