Allen Company Portable Ground Blind for Turkey and Deer Hunting - Outdoor Shooting Gear - Comes with Stakes for Easy Set Up - Realtree Edge Camo - 10" L x 27" H

I bought this to use as light cover for spring turkey season. The stakes are simply lightweight tent stakes, you just have to push the lower half in the ground so you dont break the fiberglass poles.While not a true burlap, it is a similar style material as far as sheerness and durability go. I set it out in a j hook around the large maple I sit against and even with 2 days of 50+ mile an hour winds it stayed put.It's easy to transport, simple to setup and easy to pack away for the season.I have no complaints about it, I used it primarily to help hide my husbands figgitting. And the wildlife was unbothered by it as the deer, turkeys and bears just ambled by.

So there I was...setting up on a tree line looking for that gobbler to come by so I could give it a 12 ga. pain pill to the head. This was the first time I used this blind. I thought it was going to be easy to set up but I couldn't have been more wrong. The stakes are in 3-pieces which make it great to break down into a small package but tricky to set up as the sections tended to separate unexpectedly. It was gusty that afternoon...about 15mph. This blind caught every gust that came at me. I could have used this blind to sail across the Atlantic. It swayed and rocked and flapped. I might as well have been behind an American flag. At least I would have been patriotic when the turkeys were staring at me. So I didn't have much luck and as the night grew closer, I pulled up the stakes (very carefully), rolled up the blind and headed back to my truck. Today I was going to roll out the blind to see if I could do something to help keep these stakes together. That is when I found that the lower 3rd section of the 2nd from left stake was missing the bottom portion of the stake and that only the metal fastener remained. I couldn't believe my eyes. Without this portion of the stake, the blind is useless. I could fix it, as I can fix pretty much anything, but it's a brand new blind...it's the principle of the matter. I am going to send it back for a refund. I bought other camo netting and zip-tied a couple of 3/8" steel garden stakes (3') to it, and that works just fine.

So many people call this little blind worthless, flimsy, impossible to repack. I guess you just have to be smarter than the little stakes that come with it and be able to see the folds to reshrink it. I realize that can be a problem for people who struggle with technology such as light switches and door knobs. This does what it's supposed to do and is fine for my use. Only gripe is that they say it is made of burlap. Not true. It is textured polyester to simulate burlap. Not a problem for me. If you can figure that you push the pointed stakes into the ground by holding the LOWER piece and not pushing from the top you have a nice reusable blind that won't "break the first time I used it". Seriously people?

This seems very thin and flimsy, in this case, you get what you pay for. It seems to work okay though, husband doesn't mind.

The material seems to have a color or print missing making it very sheer. The 2 piece stakes are attached to each other with elastic and the second time I went to put it away the elastic snapped. Now I have to peel back the material to find where to put the other piece.

Na

This product is poorly designed. The camouflage cloth is held up with 4 thin, three piece tent poles held together with shock chord. The end piece of each pole is sharpened, ostensibly for pushing into the ground. That might work in a well watered lawn, but out in the field where the ground is usually hard, it's completely useless. I ruined all four poles the first time I tried to set it up. If you try to pound the bottom piece into the soil you end up severing the shock chord and mushrooming the end, such that it won't fit into the next section. Never even got to use it because the design was so poor. Total waste of money!

Worked for what we needed it for. Wish it had a middle strap to help keep it tight but it worked well