How do you leave your pop-up windows?

[crittergitter]

i leave mine the way i hunt it. i dont worry about critters getting in never had a problem with them

[Cottonfish]

Like Scotty said we stake and brush the pop-ups in well, so we can leave the shooting windows open with just the mesh covering them. Our deer seem very aware of the smallest change in their environment. For several years, we even stuffed some camo overalls full of empty corn sacks to create a "Phantom Hunter" that we left tied in a tripod. To hunt it, you untied the Phantom and lowered him to the brush below and took his place for the hunt. Then you hauled him back up and replaced him when you got down. We've since gone to a pop-up at that stand, but you get the idea. BTW, that stand is still known as "the Phantom".

Stu

Oh, yeah, I forgot to add that the problem with the Phantom was that Yellow Jackets took to living in him, a fact I became painfully aware of before daylight on opening morning year before last. Could be why I didn't see anything that morning, after I proclaimed my discomfort to the creatures of the forest.

[Stykbow]

Rattler, I like that idea ! I haven't thought of that before but I think I'm going to give that a try.
Thanks,
Bobby

[texag93]

As of this morning I leave my windows more or less open. Looking at it from the feeder, the big black holes vs. closed windows is a noticable difference. I had deer look really hard at the blind this weekend. I left the windows half open and folded them out so the black inner lining would hang down and make it look fully open. That make sense? This vidoe thing from a blind is tough!

[Snakelover]

Thanks again for the great info. I only leave the front window open. My feeling is that any light that comes in from additional windows would illuminate me. I'd rather be sitting in the deep, dark shadows. Is that pretty much what everyone does?

[william]

Again I leave the windows open and the shoot through screen down and that’s the way I hunt. All I have to do is sit down in the blind and hunt.

[Loneaggie]

I have the windows unzipped and the screen mesh up. I had been zipping up the outside window but the wary does would refuse to come into the blind, bucks were oblivious. So I started leaving it just like I hunt it.... second hunt in it I nailed a doe at 12 yards... so I think I'll leave it that way.