Okay, so the consensus seems to be it's okay to fire a rifle or shotgun inside your blind. As for me I believe I will still have the mesh open and the muzzle on the outside. Another thing is I use shooting sticks. A pair of 3/4 in dowels lashed near the top to form an X.
"Shoot Thru Mesh"
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TheLBLman
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When game is up close, you're often better off shooting thru the mesh than taking the risk of being seen via poking your barrel out the window.
The use of pop-up blinds with shoot-thru mesh has only been a small percentage of my personal hunting, but I usually hunt from them a little annually. I mostly just help other people set them up.
Usually, the mesh is simply removed from the single window most likely to provide the best shooting opportunity. The main purpose of "see-thru" mesh is to help conceal you, and it is a huge advantage in camouflaging you, while still allowing you to see out. It's just a really nice thing you can shoot thru it, with typically negligible issues with POI.
With many these pop-up blinds, you can exchange the mesh from one window to a different one. So if you shoot several holes in the main one you're using, replace it with one of the others (which will often be mostly behind a solid blind wall anyway, i.e. not really being used).
Longevity of these pop-up blinds is commonly only 3 to 5 years.
So when you're throwing an old one away, save any intact mesh windows,
as you may be able to use them on a future blind.
The use of pop-up blinds with shoot-thru mesh has only been a small percentage of my personal hunting, but I usually hunt from them a little annually. I mostly just help other people set them up.
Usually, the mesh is simply removed from the single window most likely to provide the best shooting opportunity. The main purpose of "see-thru" mesh is to help conceal you, and it is a huge advantage in camouflaging you, while still allowing you to see out. It's just a really nice thing you can shoot thru it, with typically negligible issues with POI.
With many these pop-up blinds, you can exchange the mesh from one window to a different one. So if you shoot several holes in the main one you're using, replace it with one of the others (which will often be mostly behind a solid blind wall anyway, i.e. not really being used).
Longevity of these pop-up blinds is commonly only 3 to 5 years.
So when you're throwing an old one away, save any intact mesh windows,
as you may be able to use them on a future blind.
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It's actually a little bigger than that….
Once you get the fire pit out!!
Once you get the fire pit out!!
Weegee
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Those of y'all who shoot muzzle loaders and rifles without ear protection are wild.
I always use ear protection when shooting at a range sighting in etc. I never wear hearing protection while hunting. That's the reason I hesitate to fire a rifle from inside a blind. Also the first time I fired a Muzzleloader from inside a ground blind it was a Flintlock with a 42-in barrel. There was no way I could not have the muzzle sticking out a window!
Gronkmonster
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I started keeping one ear plug in. Years ago I needed a second shot to put a deer down. I'm left handed and my right ear rang for at least 20 minutes. Left ear doesn't seem to be as bothered by it
