From: David McLendon
Date: 19-Nov-09
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I decided to go sit in my dark horse blind this evening and being a spur of the moment decision I didn't have everything that I needed like the black hood that I wear to cover up the bright gray beard. Lacking that I pulled up the mesh over the window grumbling about how much I didn't like it the last time I shot through it. I had prior to this evening only shot through it with a Magnus 160 and the resulting slit made quite a show and noise when the fletching went through, not really good for business. However this evening when the moment came I had a big 160gr Snuffer loaded up with the blades lined up with the fletching. It went through so slick that the mesh hardly even moved and without the noise associated with feathers shucking through a flat slit. I guess my only complaint left on the mesh now is that I find it a little harder to focus and pick a spot through it as my eye tends to focus on the mesh, especially if there is any sunlight on it.
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From: Dave Lay
Date: 20-Nov-09
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I always wondered about that, I have a darkhorse recurve model but have yet to shoot out of it, seemed like the mesh might be hard to focus through.. did you get more noise off the 2 bld because of the feathers compressing going through the slit in the mesh, where the snuffer opened a bigger hole??? so did ya kill what you were shootin at ?? :)
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From: David McLendon
Date: 20-Nov-09
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Yep the feathers going through a flat slit make a lot of racket but going through a three blade hole it's pretty quiet. With sun behind the blind it isn't too hard to focus but if it hits the camo netting, for me anyway I struggle to focus on a spot through it because my eyes keep zeroing in on the net. Deer sure don't see through it though so it's good and bad. I did killed what I shot at, doe #7 which will be the last doe off my place this year I think. Got the 9pt the other day that's on photobucket and am holding out my other buck tag for his daddy who was out about 5 min. ahead of the 9 pt but offered no shot. Prolly won't use up all 12 tags this year since we have almost half a cow taking up a lot of freezer space that is usually filled with deer.
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From: Buff
Date: 20-Nov-09
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I can't shoot worth a flip thru the netting. Just can't pick a spot. So I cut a baseball sized hole in the net to shoot thru. It works like a champ
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From: MAXHunter
Date: 20-Nov-09
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Great thread, I will say this, it is not easy to shoot through the netting. As a traditional archer that is staring at a spot, the netting greatly decreases your ability to pick a spot and it definitely messes with your ability to focus. One thing for certain is you don't want moisture or sunlight on the netting either. I have shot through the netting successfully many times, but lets just say your ability decreases. A ten yard shot is about as difficult as a 15 yard shot, and a 15 yard shot becomes a 20 yard shot. I shot three blades through in the past and did not notice the sound. Now that I think about it, when I shoot in the blind the sound of the bow going off is amplified so much inside the blind it would probably be hard for me to hear anything else. I shot my deer through a small opening in the window this year.
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From: David McLendon
Date: 20-Nov-09
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Outside my bows are pretty quiet but in the blind you hear sounds that you didn't realize your bow was making. I've been shooting a Crown Jewel lately though and the only sound that it makes is a really quick swish sound, quite a different sound than the PAX.
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From: Flatshooter
Date: 21-Nov-09
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I have found that any angled shot through the meshing changes arrow flight. 90 degree shots through the messing are fine but the angled shots cause me problems. Anyone else find this to be true?
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From: Rick Barbee
Date: 21-Nov-09
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Yep angle shots are a problem through the mesh.
3 blade works better through the mesh than 2 blade, and vanes work better than feathers.
At least that has been my experience.
I can shoot through it ok, but I don't like having to look through it, so I quit using it, and honestly can't tell any difference as far as the attitude of the animals are concerned.
Looking through it makes me think my glasses are dirty LOL
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From: David McLendon
Date: 22-Nov-09
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I have noticed an issue with angling through with a two blade. With my Snuffers sharpened the way I do the netting offers no resistance to the blade even at an angle. I change the bevel angle on my Snuffers to 15 degrees on each side for 30 total and they are waaaay sharp unlike most three blades.
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From: sbostic
Date: 23-Nov-09
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Great thread for me guys.. I love hunting from the DB blinds. Great comments on things to think about. I know this has probably been mentioned, but for the ultimate vision through the netting bears on where the sun is. I try to tuck the blind back in and under large trees with the sun setting behind me as the sit progresses. I realize it can be hard to get the wind and sun to coincide, but I would almost give up the wind for the sun. I just close up as many windows as possible and close off the bottom flap area with debris and dirt. I also try to spray down the blind on the inside and out when spray and time allow. One thing that Keith Beam mentioned in a video that caught my ear was that when hunting out of the Matrix style blinds, he thinks that not using the netting and opening the window, out in front, to be a large gaping mouth-like opening changes the shape of the blind especially from the side and doesn't seem to spook the deer. Now, I would imagine, that in this case, the wind would play a large part. Has anyone tried this?
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