Ameristep Care Taker Ground Blind, Mossy Oak Break Up Country, Model: None

Practice.Like it does what is supposed to. Killed a deer in five hours on day two of season. Winner.

Super beau produit et de très bonne qualité Merci

I purchased this for my 2022 deer season in Oklahoma. Set up is super easy, and the interior is larger enough for two people. I personally don’t like the mesh, it is very distorting to my own eyes during sunrise and sunset. The mesh DOES NOT effect the picture quality in my scope though. I used my 30-06 this year and one shot through the mesh almost disintegrated the mesh. I initially used the stakes that came with this and the tie down system. I anchored the whole blind to a 5 wire fence post to at least prevent it from blowing away completely in the Oklahoma wind. After about a week, the wind had blown the blind around enough to loosen the stakes and jostle it against the fence. The pictures attacked show the surprisingly minimal damage this blind took blowing against the barbed wire fence. I reinforced the blind using in line posts (all I had on short notice) and these held the blind in place nicely. Overall, this blind sat on a hill with a reinforced tie down system for 22 days and didn’t budge! The tears in the blind from catching on the fence the first week didn’t get any worse. It withheld rain, snow, and wind. The material does gather condensation inside at times but I never got wet. I would definitely buy this product a second time!!

Great blind for the $70. It does have stitching holes at the seams, but so does my $350 rhino. These are not rips, or tears, but mearly needle holes that can be sealed if you wish. I have set in this blind in a down pour, and have not gotten one drop of rain on me. Condensation does build up heavily on the ceiling on freezing mornings, but the angle of the roof causes the moisture to run down the sides, and not drip on you. Again my expensive blind does this.Two people "can" fit in this blind, but that is it...they fit. This is the same with all blinds, tents, stands, boats. If you want to have two hunters in a blind, buy a bigger blind. I bought, and use this as a one man blind. I am not going to buy a 4'7"X4'7" tent and cry because two 250lb men aren't comfortable inside. Also I've seen bad reviews about the velcro mesh...IT'S SHOOT THRU MESH!!! Stop messing with it while your hunting.The door is a problem. It's small, for no reason. I have face planted going into the blind a couple times. The zipper is loud (also on my $350 blind), and I feel it should have a fiberglass rod, with toggles as an option for while you're in the blind, so you don't scare every deer within 300 yards out of the county. This is a modification I will be making to all my blinds during the off season. The door has three zippers, leave the bottom one at the bottom. There are two loops at the bottom zipper, I have tied these two loops together. If you collapse the blind with the bottom zipper up, or the loops free, the blind will grenade on you.The stakes are a joke. If you trust these to secure your blind, you should have to hunt it down after every gust of wind. Buy some real stakes. I use 3/8"x8" spikes with washers, and use the brush loops to tie off to trees.I like that you can drop the windows halfway or fully. I just wish you could raise them halfway, but they are sewn at the bottom.I have not brushed my blind in, and after 2 days have had deer and turkey walk up to it. 5 deer were taken within 10 yards this year.Overall this is a good one person blind that can be setup in about 3 minutes. If you keep it out of direct sunlight, and remove it at the end of the season, I feel it will last several years.

I can't do much of a review yet, because the only place I've set this critter up so far is my back yard. But those of you who say setup was easy--you must know something I don't; I first tried it on-site in the turkey woods, and darn near lost my salvation before I gave up and carried it back home to try again; then, it took me two hours of rolling around on the ground pushing on hubs, etc. As my late father used to say, "It was like trying to seduce a boa constrictor in an (Pullman) upper berth," for any of you old enough to remember Pullmans. For one thing, you have to pull on those hubs with considerable strength; the best way I found was a sudden jerk, before the opposite side could collapse toward me. And identifying the top hub is not easy: it's the only side without a window or a door. Once I found it I tied a red ribbon on it to ID it next time.I'll write more later, once I've tested it hunting; I don't think much of the idea of blasting a shotgun through the mesh window, but if it comes to that, OK; hoping I can open a window on the side I expect a turkey to come from; but I've tried that before--the birds don't usually cooperate.Update: hope to hunt with it tomorrow, but here's a correction to the item description: it looks like you are ordering the kick-out model, since that's in the title; in fact, the basic tent lacks this feature; you have to order a different model, at higher cost. I don't need it; but the title is misleading.