I have one that's been out for three years. I have another one that will prob be out in august . The one that's been out for three years finally got a rip in the top.

 

It is if you have bears in your area

 

Here too.

 

I can't put them out early unless I buy some better stakes to keep it from blowing away in the OK wind.

 

I use a couple of those screw in dog tethers on my blind to keep it in place.

 

Definately depends on the blind. I had an Ameristep I left out for a year, apparently that was too long because it dry rotted.

 

I've got blinds set up at my dad's place in Missouri that have lasted a few years being up. Here in Kansas? I can barely get one to last thru the Archery season without getting ripped up in the high winds, even with bigger stakes. I put up 1 blind here. I will put it up mid August. Last year I killed the biggest buck of my life on opening day, Sept. 15. I really don't see the need to put them up any earlier than that.

 

I put them up in Sept in Ks. And take them down in December.
The wind/weather/sun does deteriorate them.

 

Depends on the weather...they can take a beating leaving them out.... My big Ameristep got ripped up in a wind storm during turkey season 2 yrs back and it was staked down very good too..... I also had one collapse under the weight of snow and snapped the rods in it... leaving 'em out for long periods can be risky IMO ....

 

It is if you have wasp. I am 6'3", sliding in and out of a blind can be interesting enough but have 10 angry wasp in there with me and it becomes a real experiance. I have had blinds that I put out a week in advance and deer never paid attention. However, I have had blinds out for a month and had old nanny does stomp and carry on at the sight of it even on camera when I wasn't there. The wasp and UV damage has always been my deterants to putting them out to early.

 

only in bear country - seems we leave one out for a weekend and they end up destroyed....I agree the earlier the better, but you want it to be there when you come back


Joe

 

Hmm interesting, i have a lot of bears.... they haven't messed with my blinds to this point hopefully that doesn't change

 

I put one out too early years ago and it really took a beating. It wasn't expensive so I chalked it up to inexperience.

 

Few years back while hunting youth season I put one up and by shotgun season the camo had turned a lovely pinkish color

 

Do you remember what brand that was?

 

I've had squirrels and mice do a number on them

 

Same!

 

I put on quite a few miles in a week, 1500-1700, and I've seen several "pinkish/orange" ones. No idea what brand. In my area the pine squirrels chew on them if they're unattended too long. They chew the netting mostly but any flap in the closure too. I usually put mine up in August after planting my food plot. In the spring, when setting up for turkey season, I've had snow storms wreck 2.

 

Does it have to be a popup? Could you build one with plywood?

 

Im doing both, i already have wood blinds out as well, pop ups give me more flexibility

 

I had mine out for 3 months and the mice chewed the Sh*t out of it and peed all over the inside. I would not put a blind out until a couple weeks before you use it.

 

No shortage of them here in mid Michigan. Southern fringe of their normal range and hunting pressure is almost non existent, it takes 5 years to get a tag

 

In Michigan maybe on Private Land but the state has a limit as to when you can put out Stands on Public Lands And if on Public Land you have to have your contact on the Stand / Blind but because you have there it is not limited to just you using it anyone can like a piled up stuff as a blind and you cannot cut down trees for any reason or affix anything to a tree with any kind of fasteners. But each state has different Reg's. Most Pop Up Blinds are not durable enough to leave out for any long period of time they aren't well suited for the UV Rays that will make the materials weaker and fail sooner. But again Michigan has a lot more Hunting Pressure than other States the OP mentioned. We have a lot of Hunters that hit the woods for Archery and Firearms Seasons and the deer take notice it is just the way it is here in Michigan. Very different than Texas or Montana hunted both of these states you can get close to deer even rattling them in but Michigan is a different matter. I have permanent box blinds and ladder stands set up and the ladder stands left out for 5 months of the year... From August till December. But they are not pop up type blinds.

LFM

 

At present I am only using 1 on private land.
I set it up about last week of July and leave it out till first week of Jan.
When the snow starts I use one of those expandable painting poles to support the center, taking it out when I hunt.
It is a Ameristep "Bonehunter"? I think and after 3 years it is getting threadbare but still useable.

 

yeah these are all private land, i will have to try the snow pole idea

 

I have the Ameristep brotherhood and I generally put mine up around the first of August which is about 1 month before opening day of archery season. I take them down as soon as the season is over.

 

I set up a pop up blind about a month before bow season one year. It was set up on a fellow hunt club members property in a wooded area behind his house. About a week before the season started I went to check on my blind and it was gone! I thought somebody had stolen it and went to tell my friend about it. When I knocked on his door he asked me If I was missing a pop up blind and I told him that someone had stolen mine from his property. He told me to check with his father in law who lived about 3/4 mile from him. I went to his father in law's house and he took me to one of his barns and there was my blind torn to shreds. he told me that he found it in one of his fields. A big storm had come through the area a few nights before and carried my blind almost a mile from where I set it up. It crossed my friends property, crossed a road, crossed his father in laws pasture, and ended up behind his house in a big field. I bet it spooked the hell out of the cattle in the pasture when the blind came bouncing across that pasture. I thought I had the blind staked down pretty good, but a good storm can really do a job on a pop up blind. That's a risk you have to take with a pop up.

 

I have about 7 ameristep blinds i picked up, a couple nice bone collector brotherhoods and the rest are the cheaper Brickhouses. It seems depending on what region you hunt the deer have different tolerance levels of pop ups. I've hunted a pop up same day setup in Texas where the deer never batted an eye, and have had similar results in Kansas and Colorado. Meanwhile here in Michigan you can't cut down a sapling without the deer noticing it.

I hear a lot of people agree 2 weeks is sufficient time for deer to get used to a pop up thats brushed in well, but I still like to do it earlier. I put my treestands up by July and those are much less intrusive.

My question is at what point do i have to worry about my blinds being damaged by the elements? I know the exact spot i want to set my blinds, and were i confident they would hold up well to the elements, i would have put them out yesterday. Will i hurt anything putting them out now? And if so what is the earliest you would set them up?

Earlier the better just watch out for snow

 

Can't leave them out in western SD. I've had two of them completely trashed by the wind. One was two years ago and I still haven't found the blind.

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Can't leave them out in western SD. I've had two of them completely trashed by the wind. One was two years ago and I still haven't found the blind.

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Yeah I’ve lost several. It doesn’t take much either

 

Last one I lost I tied all the strings to trees. It broke all of them. That's the one I can't find!

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Last one I lost I tied all the strings to trees. It broke all of them. That's the one I can't find!

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Lol! Dang. Mine usually collapses from the roof.

 

I think mines somewhere in Nebraska.

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