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Advice?! pop-up blinds not collapsing- double bull

Sligh1

Sligh1

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Hey guys, I'm a treestand hunter mainly but there's some early season spots I want to put blinds on. I haven't bowhunted outta blinds hardly at all. I want to put them out this weekend and brush em in. I've used em late season and with heavy winds, etc I've had trouble. I've walked up to an expensive blind that is top of the line and it's a crumpled mess. How can I set these things up this weekend and make sure they will be money early Oct when I come back??? Any tricks??? I'm sure at some point we'll have high winds, etc but I want them up now. Thoughts and advice appreciated!!
 
Stake them down. Get some really good tent stakes instead of the ones that come with blind. Then for the tie downs get yourself 4 of the twist in dog tie downs. Replace the cheap rope that comes with the blind and get some good rope for the tie downs. Then get yourself an adjustable clothes line pole or adjustable shower curtain rod, pad one end well and use this for a center brace inside the blind. Put the padded end of rod to the top of blind. If your ground blind has bottom floor flaps find some stones to put on top of the flaps so no wind can get under blind. It will take one hell of a wind to blow it away if you do all this. I had one blind that I put out in September and left standing until the following spring and the wind or snow never touched it.
 
If possible back it into the brush so you can tie all the side and roof ties to something solid and it will stay up forever. Use big 12 inch tent stakes instead of the little skinny ones that come with it. In open ground I will tie the sides to big logs with 12 inch stakes on the corners. When it snows you need a cut tree for inside to prop up the roof when it gets covered in heavy snow. If you brush it in with corn, remove all the ears or the mice get real bad. In Wyoming I use 6 ft. t-posts to tie it down. The better blinds are tough. I have a few that have been up for 2+ years. As I have told you before Skip, we spend 95 percent of the time in permanent and portable ground blinds. You just have to have a dead zone for your scent to blow.
 
My dark horse is as solid as a rock in the wind. You need 12 good stakes and that should do the trick. Thicker rope would help as well.

Two new items in cabelas that caught my eye. One is a center rod and the other is a cargo net that goes over your blind to keep brush in place.

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Sligh: I've had the same problem. Most of my blinds end up tipped over or wrecked during high winds. Now I stake them in, and use bungees. I almost have to have a tree to secure it to. Minnesota and Dakota winds flip them like a kite in open fields.
 
Thanks guys, really appreciated! I will be doing exactly what you recommended!!!
 
another option is to use re-rod. I use a 3 foot piece that is bent on one end. I have found that in crop ground where it has been tilled up the soil is so loose that the tent stakes will pull out. In timber or pasture where the soil hasnt been turned recently the tent stakes work fine. I also got some parachute cord from the military surplus store on the southside of des moines that was pretty cheap.
 
A lot of really good advice already. I will throw in my 2 cents. I have had really good luck backing them into the brush and tieing off to as much as possible. Staking it down will only do so much.

Where I hunt at wind has never really been to much of a hazard, but snow and ice are a killer. I really hate to leave one out for very long during the late season.

When a blind is set up properly, and in the right location, you can have some very productive hunts. Good Luck!
 
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