welcome back to Steve Robb reviews today we're going to review an interesting product a product
that I have used with another brand that was very successful a high quality ground blind this
one here I picked up is well it's a little bit different and if you can tell by the size of the
Box you can watching the channel long enough it's a lot smaller than the Primus Club XL a
lot smaller a lot lighter and half the price so I thought I'd do this review of comparing this grow
blind the Burnett radar and of course I picked the it's called the snow blind well I guess that you
can get camel you've got all kinds of different ones these are both two men blinds now you don't
just use these for deer hunting a lot of people use them for bird-watching a lot of people use
them for nature photography all kinds of things I know there's guys that have construction sites
you know remote construction areas they bring one of these just for a temporary shelter during the
daytime just to get out of the Sun and that kind of thing but I'm going to take a look at this one
and compare both but I'm going to show you what it looks like in my place up in Northern Ontario
first week of November let's take a look at that well here we go right here here's just a nice long
distance shot and this is just of my little tiny garage I have up there and you can see we have
quite a bit of snow and right here next is the little bit of a cabin I've got here and of course
this is way up in Northern Ontario and the third one there you could see in the distance wow we've
got a lot of snow we got eighteen inches last fall and here we go this is my ETV I just took a shot
of that there and yeah you cannot get around on ETV too good once you get past about 1012 inches
so the last one here well now I'm gonna show you two more here okay so this one right here is the
this is the green barrel that we put up in the tree hang down feeding the deer and that was
quite an adventure with me and Doug from pine tree line outdoors and the last one here if you
could take a real good look at that picture right there you're going to see that there's actually a
tree stand in there and a couple of years ago a great big maple fell down right on the tree
stem where somebody would have been sitting had we not gone in for lunch so where do you think
of that okay so there you go right there that's why I picked out this one here the snow blind
okay so what I'm gonna do now is to make a fair comparison I'm gonna show you the review just a
little clip of what I did I guess it was over a year ago with the Primus Club XL I really like
this one it's fantastic it's easy to set up it's just you know just like a pop-up tent kind of a
thing and it is terrific so I'll just show you a little bit of video clip of this and then we'll
take this we'll go out in the backyard and I'll set this one up and let's take a good look at the
differences because unless you have a different brand how would you know right so let's go up
north Ontario right now and let's take a look at the blind that I have right now the Primus
Club XL well that's it right there with the door open guys I tell you what there is lots of room in
there and when you're sitting right there that whole screen part opens right up and of course
we'll open this side up here too but all I did was just drive some steaks on the ground all the
way around it okay so we're looking at the back of this right now and you get a good idea where
I'm looking when we're going to be sitting inside and we're going to raid up there well you can see
in the last clip there I would just point well with actually that's the way we were shooting
and right in front there that's where there's a game trail that goes across and little further
down and if you want I'll put a link down below and you can take a look at the they're really I
think it's quite genius rig that I set up compared to the old grain barrel that I had up in the air
full of corn with a timer on the bottom of it for feeding the deer well I made a new one and for a
lot of people they're just going to run across this video if you want to take a look out bowl
I made my own more portable more reliable tree stand and not treestand green feeder and it goes
up into a tree and of course it's all made out of metal it's not made out of wood and I made two of
them so you guys take a look at that if you want but let's take a look at this here I'm just really
taking I open it up I'm just going to take out of the bag and the first thing I'll tell you is
compared to the Primus XL you couldn't do this the Primus is I take twice as heavy and it's a
lot bigger physically around and longer so I mean yeah this here throw it over your shoulder and
going away well the Primus is a lot bigger and it's a lot heavier so let's take a look inside
and let's see how this compares to the Primus Club XL okay so here we are first thing you should be
able to just take it out of the bag put it out on your area where you're going to be and it should
just set up easy and shouldn't have to read no instructions none of that stuff let's take a look
well that came out pretty easy there's a little bit of a tie here I'll never use that again and
it's just going to unroll let's just on roll it and let's see what happens here
okay this ain't going the way I thought I'll tell you something I
take something yeah they're spring-loaded you have to actually just step on it and
then pull as they come up listen let's try this again right okay
okay this ain't going as intended let's try this again
now the Primus XL I never had this problem but this is a little bit different and I'm
thinking maybe you got to read some instructions because I tell you what
okay this ain't going it BZ I'm gonna tackle this and wrassle it down and figure out why
they ain't going together right okay 15 minutes later IRA ass'll but this thing
pretty good and the one thing I found out is because it's so much lighter but I used
to do with the Primus is just grab the center of the top give it a little tug
and it would come open well not so easy with this one but I got the top open
okay I got one more here
okay now that I figured it out because you know because it's so lightweight now I know
exactly what to do next time but you know what because it's so lightweight while it was the
bear to get it started so what you have to do is just grab the top get it laid down and then give
it a good quick up and she'll springload open so let's take a good look at it right now okay
well there we go right there she's all finally sprung open and it does come with the I guess
just the camouflage kind of screening and you can take that off as well inside and I showed
you how this one here yeah there's the screening gone and so far it's about the same size I would
say as the Primus Club but I won't take you inside now I want to show you something okay
it's pretty dark in here but can you guys see that all on the ceiling here all the
way around everywhere guys I don't know cuz I I put my hand on the other side and I don't know
if they are going to cause leaks this is just gonna leak like a sieve I'm not too sure you
take a look at a spot like this and it's not like I can poke my hand through it well what
am I gonna do is I'm going to get some water and spray it on top here and see if that leaks
okay I'm just above the window there I showed before and I'm just going to pour some water on
I'm looking through the other window here okay that's good she's not leaking well as you can
see it was a bit of a struggle there I did took a look inside and they have six pigs and they give
you two ropes I don't know what you're supposed to do with the other ones but yeah there's four
tie-downs to go around the blind and this should give you a four ropes right but I'll put my own
ropes and I don't use their little pegs I Drive some nice wooden stakes in the ground but what do
I think well let's threw me right off because it was so light because it was so light it was hard
to actually make each section pop up but after I got the hang of it yeah now that I know it's gonna
be a lot easier you know you got to really just give it a good snap like if you got two people
no problem you know but because the Primus is so much heavier for me it's so much easier the
material on this one I thought you know what I can see like the day lane through there and it
wasn't leaking guys so I mean that part there okay that's fine but I'm gonna have to test
this down further and look forward to seeing this up in my my rope capping up in Northern
Ontario this fall hopefully and I'm gonna give it out of five stars I'm gonna give it a four
for now because it is quite hard to set up they didn't put the right amount of attachments you
know there's four sides four pegs they give you six pegs and two ropes and I'm saying yeah they
drop the ball on that one there okay overall for half the price I got more than half the value and
I mean for what I paid for it I'm satisfied you know for me I like it I know how it goes up now
and would I buy another one you know I think I will but I'm gonna hold off until I wait to see
how this thing actually performs and for me it's exactly the same as the Primus except a lighter
weight a lighter material and we'll find out in time if it's as good so thanks for joining
me here today I hope you like this a little bit of a zone of me trying to wrangle that
thing together and come back again if you ever seen this channel before well you're welcome
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