Pop-Up Hide

[TDRsniper]

Hi All,

Have posted before about how important it is to build and dress a good hide (my opinion) and normally take with me 6 or 8 poles and 3+ nets including stealth and MOD depending on wind and other conditions, I enjoy the hide building process and try to blend it in with the environment as best as I can ( won't bore you with the pictures again) it generally takes 30 - 45 mins before I'm done.

My buddy and I were at the CLA and saw the pop up hides which have been around a little while and have been slightly adapted with more leafy foliage added, I'd seen them before but decided to get one to see if they were any good.

So Sunday afternoon after I'd done my chores I got my kit ready and took the hide which is only slightly bigger than a camping chair and weighs about the same along with one stealth net, no poles which are quite heavy and no big bag of bulky nets.

I got to the centre of 4 fields of standing barley (harvested the next day grrrrrr) and literally 5 mins later had a hide built on the headland, set up the flapper on a 4ft steel pole and some deeks on bamboo canes only 10 feet in front of the hide and immediately had birds coming in, the hide is solid at the bottom with a dark realtree pattern and a fine mesh at the top with the leafy foliage in front, not really in keeping with the landscape but gives great all round vision and I saw birds coming from every angle.

I won't go into the details of how many cause I can't shoot for toffee but as far as the hide is concerned it worked a treat, very light, very quick and easy and a lot less to carry than the traditional approach.

I'm a convert.

 

Thanks for reading.

[diddy]

which hide did you buy?

[richg]

I too wanted a pop-up hide to use on the stubbles so i went to B&Q and got some Cane Screen, total cost £24.99. I was so impressed i wrote about, its in this weeks Countrymans Weekly, page 12