Best Ground Blinds – Top Reviews of Portable Hunting Blinds

1. Our Top Pick: Ameristep AMEBL3000 Care Taker Ground Blind

The Ameristep Care Taker blind is a solid, positive answer to the question of whether it’s worth taking a blind on your hunt. It’s lightweight at just 16.75 pounds, and it’s quick and easy to set up and take down. That means it comes without the hassle of some more complex blinds.

As a concealed blind, its camo-coloration makes it easy for animals to ignore, and its windows allow for 360-degree observation. That puts you quietly, almost invisibly at the heart of the animal action. The mesh windows also allow you to shoot through them, so you won’t have to give your presence away until you make your kill-shot.

While taller hunters (over 5 feet 6 inches) might be uncomfortable standing in the Care Taker for long periods of time, adding a chair allows hunters up to 6 feet to observe animals in comfort from the confines of this blind.

The low price point has made this a popular blind with hunters, but the price has some understandable consequences  – the Velcro fastenings can be noisy in an observation environment, and there are no straps to let you add your own foliage to add depth and dimension to your cover.

As a what-you-see-is-what-you-get ground blind though, the Care Taker is winning hunters’ hearts and minds, its easy-up, easy-down features more than overcoming any issues and making it our top pick for the best ground blind on the market today.

2. Barronett Blinds Big Cat Pop Up Portable Hunting Blind

The Big Cat Portable Pop Up Hunting Blind puts the emphasis on Big, with a 70 inch by 70 inch floorplan, and a center height of 80 inches – that’s 6 feet 6 inches, meaning the big advantage of the Big Cat is you’re likely to be able to shoot standing up as you normally would. And a more familiar shooting stance means a greater likelihood of successful kills from inside the Big Cat.

Aiding that normal shooting position, the windows are zipperless and adjustable, meaning more options in the moment when your animals of choice are in the area. There’s also no Velcro, Barronett choosing to use the quieter option of straps to secure the Big Cat’s windows

Size definitely matter to Barronett, but then it matters to you too – you can fit three people comfortably in the Big Cat, with room to stretch and move about, meaning it’s great for you and your hunting buddies. One blind, three hunters – everyone’s a winner in the Big Cat.

You’d expect a bigger blind to be more complex and heavy, but the Big Cat weighs just 19 pounds, and as a pop up, it’s surprisingly quick and easy to put up and take down. It’s also made of thin, durable material and comes with its own carrying case, so once it’s down, it doesn’t add too much bulk to your gear.

For maximum versatility, the Big Cat comes in several camo varieties, so you can take it into most American hunting environments and get good results from this ground blind.

3. Primos Double Bull Deluxe Ground Blind

The Primos Double Bull Deluxe Ground Blind is a step up the pricing ladder from our top two picks. That said, it offers some ingenious extras, so you genuinely get more blind for your buck.

At 77 inches hub to hub and with a center height of 70 inches (5 feet 8 inches), the Primos can comfortably house two adults on a hunt.

If you want a blind that’s easy to put up, it’s difficult to beat the Primos Double Bull Deluxe. Masteroftheoutdoors.com, which does in-depth testing of lots of hunting blinds, actually timed the set-up of the Double Bull Deluxe at 45 seconds. That’s down to the Primos Double Bull system, which exists specifically to make your life easier on a hunt. The same guys were able to break the blind down in just over a minute.

The Double Bull Deluxe features a 180-degree front-facing shooting window with adjustable height, which means options, options, options – it can accommodate hunters of various heights, but it also gives a wide area for targeting your animals of choice.

The whole blind is also zipperless and Velcro-free, meaning there are no necessary noises to spook the animals.

The Double Bull Deluxe comes in Primos’ Truth camo, which users report as being more effective than many other varieties used on cheaper blinds.

So why isn’t the Double Bull Deluxe higher up our list?

Firstly, the price-point is significantly higher than our two top picks. And secondly, where the first two score highly on ease of transportation and weight, you’ve got to really want to take the Double Bull Deluxe with you – it weighs in at 27 pounds, which compared to some cheaper blinds makes the Double Bull a doublewide. Also when it comes to transportation, it’s less convenient and less straightforward than some other blinds – it’s difficult to fit the blind into its carrying case, and the range of straps and buckles are awkward to pack away in anything like the speed it takes to put up or take down the blind.

That said, Primos does take note of the user experience – there’s a range of Youtube videos from the company showing the blind in action, and a limited lifetime warranty to deal with aftercare issues.

So the Double Bull is a great sturdy two-person blind with no zippers or Velcro, an impressive camo, a comfortable experience and a wide variety of shooting options that’s easy to put up and takedown, but a relative pain to transport. The question that stops it from being higher on our list is whether all that makes it worth the higher price compared to some other blinds.

4. RHINO Blinds R75 2 Person Hunting Ground Blind

The RHINO Blinds R75 takes us to the more budget-friendly end of the ground blind spectrum, with what is really a one-person-and-change hunting blind.

Designed to be set up a few days in advance so it can blend into the scenery, the R75 is a waterproofed polyester blind with a 60×60 inch floor space and a center height of 66 inches (5 feet 5 inches), so it’s by no means overly roomy.

That said, it’s relatively easy to put up and break down – RHINO says that ‘with practice,’ it can be put up in just over a minute.

The R75 comes in a range of camo options, so you can use it in a variety of hunting environments, and with a few days to become part of its habitat, it should allow you to have a successful, if never a luxurious hunt.

It makes it onto our list as a solidly effective no-frills re-usable option for hunters who just want to get on with the business of hunting. Whether or not you have one of the more expensive, more roomy blinds for bigger hunting parties, it’s probably worth investing in a low-cost option like the R75 too, for when you want that frill-free lone hunter experience.

5. Barronett Pentagon Ground Hunting Blind, 4 Person Pop Up Portable

The Barronett Pentagon 4 Person Pop Up Portable tells you a lot of what you need to know right there in its name – it’s pentagon-shaped, the fifth wall giving you up to 70% more in-blind space than some of its competitors. We’re talking about dimensions of 91 x 91 x 72 inches (5 feet 9 inches center height). In ground blind terms, it practically comes with its own swimming pool. Three people, four people, or two people with half a truckload of gear – the Pentagon can take whatever you want to fill it with.

It also comes equipped with more windows than many houses – nine trapezoid windows with shoot-through mesh so you never have to give yourself away, and two peek windows for observation. As a longer-term hunting blind, the Pentagon is an option very much worth considering. All the windows are zipper and Velcro-free too, allowing you your secrecy without the danger of sudden sounds startling the animals. Bow hunters have reported that the lower windows are perfect for them to shoot through from a seated position.

Naturally for such a big blind, it’s weatherproof in terms of wind and rain, encouraging the longer-term use that makes sense of having so much interior space.

But for all you could practically hold a pool party in the Pentagon, and the windows themselves are zipper and Velcro-free, the mesh is attached with Velcro and the door has a zipper, so beware – once the hunt properly begins, try not to come and go from the Pentagon or you risk being just a bunch of people in a tent from which animals are fleeing at speed.

The Pentagon weighs in at just 20 pounds, which while not by any means the lightest blind on our list, makes it an acceptable carry-weight for the size of blind you get.

One issue users have reported with the Pentagon though is that its camo is not among the best on the market. Some users have found the black color peels off after a relatively short time, and one Pentagon user has reported that his blind mysteriously turned pink while he was using it. Barronett was quick to remedy the situation though and assures customers that this was an isolated incident.

If you want one of the biggest blinds on the market, the Barronett Pentagon is a solid option, giving several users at a time plenty of scope for good, effective hunting.