Redneck Soft Side Blinds?

[buckhunter10]

I know some of you all have these or did, are they still holding up? Feedback? Thoughts on these?

I can buy a Oak Ridge Blind (I have 2 now and I like them) for around 1800. I could get a Redneck Soft Side on a stand for a heck around $800. So it is significantly less and I believe they have their space on the farm.

Anyhow, looking for feedback! Thank You!

 

[Chainsaw]

I have a soft side out on it's third year; I like it. One year it was left into snow season later than it should have been and had a couple of feet of snow on it which was pushing it but it held up just fine. On the negative we did get some surface peeling on the metal frame; we just sanded it and repainted it. We put interlocking foam floor mats bought from Sams Club (around $25) on the floor. This made the blind warm and comfortable. It was a bit drafty without them. I intend to purchase more of the soft side blinds.

 

[Buckly]

As I sat frozen to my tree today I was thinking I sure wish I had one of those Redneck blinds like Chainsaw has.

 

[buckhunter10]

I have a soft side out on it's third year; I like it. One year it was left into snow season later than it should have been and had a couple of feet of snow on it which was pushing it but it held up just fine. On the negative we did get some surface peeling on the metal frame; we just sanded it and repainted it. We put interlocking foam floor mats bought from Sams Club (around $25) on the floor. This made the blind warm and comfortable. It was a bit drafty without them. I intend to purchase more of the soft side blinds.

Is the metal powder coated? When you peel off the outter cover in the winter, do you put a tarp or anything on the metal to protect it or just leave it out?

I am in OH, although we get some snow, it isnt like yall get up there! I am thinking we could leave ours out year round without issue, unless the win tears them down?

 

[Chainsaw]

Is the metal powder coated? When you peel off the outter cover in the winter, do you put a tarp or anything on the metal to protect it or just leave it out?

I am in OH, although we get some snow, it isnt like yall get up there! I am thinking we could leave ours out year round without issue, unless the win tears them down?

The metal is powder coated and the majority of it held up but few spots did not. And no we did not put anything on the metal to protect it, just left it out. The high winds here would make a tarp impracticable.

I can not see leaving the soft shell covering out all year even if you get less snow than we do. It really is not designed to be left out all year. The weight of the snow when it gets wet would be tough on the shell and probably the sun year round would be also. Ours is only out Sept. Thru Nov. so three months a year and into it's third year It (the cover)shows no signs of wear but I don't think that would be the case if we left it out all year.

Once one is familiar with it taking the soft shell down it is only a twenty-minute job and that is not rushing at all. I'd guess a half hour for putting it back up and another 1/2 hour for reinstalling the floor which I find to be necessary.

 

[Chainsaw]

As I sat frozen to my tree today I was thinking I sure wish I had one of those Redneck blinds like Chainsaw has.

Ask Chummer what he thinks about them. Ten minutes after Chummer went out on a nice sunny afternoon here there was a blinding blizzard like snowfall. It was his first sit in a Redneck and he was as comfortable as can be throughout the blizzard conditions and when the blizzard conditions subsided the does came out into the field with bucks a chasin, Chummer was at the party and he was dry and warm.

Seriously there is nothing to me like sitting on the ground deer hunting but when the weather gets tough or the wind is swirling it is Redneck Blind time.

 

[Buckly]

I saw a whole trailer load of Redneck blinds a couple years ago at a gas station. Couldn’t convince the driver about the destination.lol. It might have been about when you got yours. Maybe they were. I think they’re top of the line but don’t have any experience with the soft sides.

 

[Zeek]

We get snow in VT this time of year. My soft side Redneck is holding up, the pop up I have is pushed down. It is like hunting out of an efficiency apartment. But like all the other blinds I've owned the zippers are noisey. Other than that I really like it. As for storing it in the off season, I'm putting in the garage. Priorities.

 

[buckdeer1]

I bought 2 gillies last year at the redneck end of year sale online and saved at least 100 per blind and got a couple chairs also and they are nice