And here we have it the Ox5 5 Barnett hunting blind
All completely setup Barnett always advertises go big or go home
If you're looking for room and you're looking for a blind
This is the Taj Mahal of them all and I am quite impressed with this ox FiberNet blind
What's up a?
couple cool packages come today
one of them
Can't afford to buy those ten thousand dollar lenses
So I got this idea that if I bought a blind I could sit in the blind and then get really good photos
At least that's what I'm thinking, and I here's the blind here
This was supposed to be the new
New ox5 and then I picked this up
And this thing's huge, but it was listed on Amazon for about $40
And I went back the next day to see both. Maybe picking up another one
And the price went up to $70. I was like why did that happen?
Well, I have no clue
So let's get this open and have a look at it, okay
This is the bag it comes in the bag, it's really really well-made
Big straps here
You can feel it on your back. You know it's there, but it's not
It's not super heavy you know
It touches me just below my knees a little bit, but I
Can carry us and I could walk this in probably a couple miles pretty easy all right. Let's set it up
Okay, let's set this up. I looked at the instructions really quick and
Said you pull up on the roof first, and then you do each wall and you walk around so we'll see how easy this
Ah you might have back up a little bit see the whole thing
Besides this must be the roof
That popped up pretty easy so we pop the sinner when it popped up pretty easy
I'm just gonna walk around to the other
That's it. We're up
Where's the door
Well, this is the front
As you can see that's where you shoot it
That looks like the rear window
Where you can see behind me
It looks pretty big in there though, this is another window
You know
Big zipper on the door really big zipper
Really thick
Since this thing has the double material
Okay my head hitting the sides
As you can see
You got to be
Brightness, and I'm down here a little bit here this grounds not even level
but
If you were 6-2 6-4 now, I'm about 510 C, but my head there
Maybe 12 inches you might have to bend a little bit
It's warm in here oh
So that's the front and they're connected with
These ties in Figure and that's a screen
This one wasn't even tied up
Hmm oh look at that
See that there
The black has got pinholes
It looks like
When it was in the box, and you know they put the staples in the box
Yeah, cuz look it goes all the way down here
It looks like when it was in the box
And they put the staples in the box is
When they did that cuz it has a line that could be wrong, but even up here
You're gonna line the edge see that it's all unison
Ceilings got in the holes that I'm gonna waterproof it anyways, but I
Was really surprised that
It's all there on the edge like that
Huh
Okay, let's say I set this up and I'm gonna have my camera set up
It would have been nice if they put a vent
Yeah
Would have been nice if they would have put a vent in the cup
You're definitely gonna have those those back windows they're open to get the heat out of here
Okay about this Coleman cot at the same time
And I don't think it's gonna go in there
But we're gonna try
It maybe too big I may need something smaller
Let's find out
Well it does go in
Barely
Maybe put the table on the back end
But I do have room in the front
okay, so if I was to sit on this I
Do have room so you can get
You can get a cot in here
Maybe a tiny stool
But that's probably above it oh
Wow the cut feels really nice really comfortable
See my my idea was because they advertised this thing being so big I
Thought I
Can get a cot in here but share
Here's what I thought I could get in here
And they're saying for men I don't know I wouldn't I
Wouldn't say for men. I don't know what men they're getting but
Let's say two men comfortably really comfortable three men would be tight
But I'd say two men for sure comfortably on two chairs
But if I brought this in
Left the cot outside and then brought the cot in before going to sleep at night
Then it would work set the cat outside cover it up but under net or whatever to camouflage it that would be fine
So if anybody has a common cot they'll get a better perspective on how much room is in here
And keep in mind guys here in Tennessee is hot man. I mean we're sitting in the 90s right now. It is horrible
How hot it is everybody else is talking about a winter time, but we're a long ways from it
We got a breeze today at least but
We're looking at probably another two weeks before we get a little bit cool
It's got um just a one it's got a big pocket there
As you can see great big pocket there on the side
And it's got a stake holder there. Thanks. They give you really heavy duty
and
It looks like you get one two three four five six seven eight nine
You get 11 stakes
That comes with it
Galvanized steel over there
Bang knows that I want a hammer
And those are in that green punch this do you?
Really big pocket
Big warnings my deal that says
Call me one pocket in here
There is no other something the one on that wall you think they want to put a couple pockets. Maybe even on the front here
Saw metal construction the thing it does the popping
Well I wasn't in these tiny holes here guys where the staples looks like they went through it
Doesn't look too bad and I would have thought it was bigger but
I'm good with this ice I was hoping to get a cot a chair a couple more things in here, but
It does put the cot in so
The cot can be folded up, and I could set it up against the wall even
And then before I go to bed put it down
You're not gonna get two cots in here. You're not gonna sleep two guys in here unless you put two guys on the ground
But it's just one guy you could put a cot in here
Set your chair outside for the night sleep, and then I'll pull the chair in
It's right outside the door keeping the quiet
Now the way this pulls up
You see here, it's on this drawstring
Is what that song and that's wrapped around here, so you pulled this up tight and draw it in
So no the zippers no velcro whatsoever
This looks like the when and that's connected to that strap
This is worth sewed and that's for the
That's the patch on there the knitting is suffered I guess you could if you shoot through the knitting if you're a bow hunter
You could change it out. It looks like by the buckles there
Okay and now got a churn here. Yeah, I got nothing on chair beside me and I got my I
Got my tripod
All set up
Not sure if you can see that
I've got that all set up and ready to take photos one thing. I noticed was these buckles
They got here
They control the screen so when you lock down
You open them
You'll notice now my camera can't see dope
so if I pull this down now
Then you can make room for the camera to go up now, there's a hunting blind it's not meant for
cameras
And I've got my legs like that so I got to put one leg in each side
But I can see all the way around me, okay, like I
Can see through there and I could open that even larger if I wanted I probably would
You know I have quite a distance around me
You know actually I guess it would be idea if I had two cameras two lenses that would be a pretty expensive setup
But I
Do like it. There's a lot of room over here. I mean I can literally I can get another launcher there easy
like I said I mean I
Could see two full-grown men being in here pretty comfortable and
even you know maybe a tiny tiny table put your coffee on there whatever but
Maybe even two grown men and a boy, you know I could even see that but
For happy tight it would be tight now forward guns
Yeah, but it'd be tight
You know three grown men
Little better, but four would be really tight like I said, I wouldn't do any more than two grown guys and a boy
three grown men if you really had to
but
This isn't this is pretty awesome
For seeing out so I'm gonna waterproof it I'm gonna put a spray to the top so it's not that big of a deal
Actually, I'm looking at where those stitches those holes are now and I know what those are from well
That's that um
That piece of material II put all the way around the outside where you could slide in branches. That's what that is
That's the needle marks from when they stitched it wow they used a big needle
Well isn't that something
It doesn't make sense kids when they come across here see the holes, but when I come to this one
No, there's no hole in that one whatsoever yet the other one
They all have holes
Huh
Corners are all reinforced
Now
Now in these blinds you don't where
You don't you shouldn't be wearing camel?
You should be wearing like a black shirt is what you should be wearing some type of black over your face
So that way it darkens you out in here
You're really gonna make it as dark as your Ken in here
So total total uptime I
Don't know not even 20 seconds 30 seconds now as the first time I set it up so when I set it up a few
times, it's
My pops up since away
So quick, it's ridiculous
There's enough room for my dog me
First impressions of this blind very roomy very comfortable good for two people very comfortable
I mean I could even cook in here. I don't like the little pinholes
I'm not sure what I'll do about that, but that doesn't affect it from being waterproofed at all I mean
It doesn't affect it from being waterproof whatsoever I bought the waterproofing stuff it didn't come in today probably tomorrow, but
I'll give you guys a video on that too what I do. I'm gonna spray it down and I'm gonna
put like two III coats to it I
Even picked up something for the floor
Like you see down there. I picked up a
moving blanket, you know the blankets movers used I
Plan to lay those on the floor, so that way when you're stepping on them. There's no noise whatsoever
This is not a light setup
I mean this ain't something that you're gonna get into the back packing like I do at my hammock system
No, not by any means. I mean this is a system that you drive your truck in
You know carry two blind
And I'll take it in set it up
And then I gotta carry in a lawn chair, and you know it's good
It'll be 2 or 3. It'll be two or three trips by the time
I'm done getting everything set up, and it's not gonna be that far from the truck
You know and then the truck. I'll back at Ames. It's 4 by 4, so I'll back it and hide it
and in
It'll be basically all the comforts of home
So that way I can actually do my videotaping in my photography
But if you're a hunter and you're watching this video
You shootin want a gun oh
Yeah, you got a lot of ways to what?
Could shoot all the way around I used to be an avid hunter used to hunt a lot
Used to hunt off a lot at one time a
Bow no crossbow compound bow
I'm not sure. I'm really not sure you know like you think I'm pulling back on the bow here
I'd have to be sitting down you're not gonna. You're not gonna shoot standing up will tell you that right now
You're gonna have to be sitting on one of those
You're gonna have to be sitting on one of those
Boat Ares that you kind of move around on
When you're sitting up, then you could and you could shoot through the screen man
And then you got a wide saw all the way around
Not for me, I'm not even gonna have that much open, and then you take a look
I'm gonna get it open so you guys can actually see and hope the video turns out like all that's gonna be closed for me
None of that's gonna be open at all
Cuz it's not like I can move my camera or anything and the only thing I'm gonna have open is
You know a very very tiny spot just enough for my lens to go through
And that's about it
So I think once I waterproof it and I
Think once I waterproof and I think it'll be it'll be quit amazing
So am I impressed would I keep coming back to that geez yeah, actually I'm very impressed with it
I really am I wish they would have had a vent in the top some formal event they let heat out, but again
I mean it's a hunting plane most people in hunt I mean they're into
Wintertime fall time so you didn't turn him and you keep as much warmth as you can inside when you're in the South, Florida
Tennessee you know George you're up and around here
It's not bad when you're sitting down
But when it's a it's a good I could see a good 90 degrees sunny day. It'd be pretty warm in here
You're definitely gonna have quite a bit open
But other than the pinholes from where they put the strapping with the needle
Not too bad not too bad at all
See if they would have glued that strapping on and start stitching it
I don't know if it's stitching is cheaper enough, but you wouldn't have got those holes
It is all metal
The pop-up pop-ups, they're all metal all right. I could see this lasted me quite a few years. I really can I
Mean, I'm not gonna take a note and set it up outside and leave it out there for months
And I mean I think if you do that with anything the material is gonna fade
I mean its material would die in it for camouflage, right?
You set this outside and you leave it out there for two or three months
I mean of course the dye, it's gonna fade
And I mean sudden
Sun just kicks the heck out of anything just take anything and leave outside for a while and watch what happens even plastic deteriorates
so
Now if you're planning on taking us out leaving it out there for you know a week or whatever
It's the deer whatever if you're hunter to get used to it
Danya I could see doing it
But a month. I don't know I was gonna take it out leave it outside for a month
I would probably put a bigger tarp over top of it to protect it from the UV from the Sun and
then
You know then that that would get hit instead of the actual blanked
But no the animals aren't gonna see any movement whatsoever
And it is made well. I mean it's got two different cloths
I mean you got the camouflage cloth cloth on the outside which isn't polyester. It's like
it's like a blur like a GM like a like a quartering material is what it feels like and
Then you've got the black
Some on the inside, so you've got two levels of material here, so
The outside I want to treat with the waterproofing
And even with the amount of material they got here that got
And you could be sitting here whispering to a buddy, and I can't see it spooking anything really I really can't
So this would be pretty cool, and I get set up for taking pictures of the animals a little more comfortable - I
Like you seen I mean
I'm rambling here, but this this is a this is a big purchase. Let's take a look at it on the other side
Now the door itself
the thoughts office got velcro here in the back and all you do is pull it back, and there's that there and
You are gonna want to stake it. I'll play that right now. I would not leave it nuts taken cuz I'm I
Think it would blow away
This thing here
Yeah, this is for you to put branches in the camouflage room or where they did be
Here is where the mail
Is where it punches true?
So it's like they put
You see and I wasn't mess up
Actually is what that was
This should have been put on the camouflage first
Okay, and then that black batting backing should have been pulled on in any wouldn't see those holes
Whatsoever, but if you stand back here, I mean really
It's pretty dark in there
You know
And I'm back about and I know eight feet
And I can't even see in there with the door open. I could see where the door is
but my limbs
You know I can't you see that
So
Yeah, so when they added these things here
We're just like branches in
they should have put that on the camouflage first and then put the black batting on I
Do like the idea of this
Reinforced corners
You know if it's gonna leak it's gonna leak in here I
Don't know it's like it's like a quarter where I would have some type of coating on it. It's not polyester
And the states themselves go underneath this brown thing
And you will need a hammer to put those in and take them out so don't expect just a pusherman
Now I do bend over when I get in you are gonna have to bend over in that door see
Now some blinds elaborate eyes that there will chair accessible
I don't think that's what your accessible unless you take the person off the wheelchair
And carry them in and then bring the wheelchair and after
so
Do you know the windows are kind of cool
And that probably I don't know I probably wouldn't even be using this in the front I
Do like the idea that
See right there
The buckle
and then the other buckles up there I
Do like the idea of it being adjustable, I mean literally slides up and down so I can have it higher lower
so
If you do have a kid that's nine years old six years old
You can adjust the height for them if they're shooting
But I do like that
So it doesn't matter. What chair you buy or use it's gonna. It's gonna work, so I would recommend it and
By the way the company didn't give this to me or anything like that I bought this with my own money
I bought it for a photography and
It's like a drive out set it up and me and my dog can go I take my dog everywhere
I know it's crazy Jeremy Shepherd, and she goes backpacking. She goes everywhere with me and she gets excited
So I'm just gonna have to train her to be quiet and lay down
Hopefully she doesn't get all crazy and can smell the animal or whatever. We'll have to see how that goes when I go out
But I will train her to where she doesn't do that and this allows me to take her cuz now we're in a blind
It's not like we're walking
So and this is just a hobby for me
it's not like I'm making money off of it, but I did buy this with my own money, so I
Would buy it again, I think they've reached our limit though I
Think they've reached their limit with the weight of it though being around thirty pounds I mean you can feel it on your back and
You're carrying say this in your bow in one hand
Maybe a purse like type of
with your cents and stuff like that if you're hunter turning our back everything I used to carry on when I used to hunt I
Mean you could do it you could do it. You could probably walk in a good couple of miles be okay?
You know if you're not used to walking in depth. I'm gonna be happy to puff and by the time you get in there
But I think if they go over 30 pounds and you start getting into anything bigger than this
then you're gonna be and you're gonna be like no way I
Mean literally I have to be separating two guys and two guys connected or something
but I
Like it I like the size. I thought it was bigger. I mean the way they advertised it no.8 a market
I know it's very little videos on YouTube about it I
Thought it was pretty. I thought it was bigger. It does get a cot in here
There's even one other guy had a video and he had a cot
His kid was sitting in a chair
Watching TV and I'm like
Maybe the cot was smaller I don't know
But the Coleman car is Fitz, but it's it's tight you know
But there's enough room to be comfortable where you're not feeling like you're shocked wacky is what I call them really feel like you're all
Cooped up and pinned up, and you can't move around I mean
No not at all I mean once I get to set up and even put my dog in here I
Mean, it's not like she's gonna
Go through the walls the walls are fairly thick it's not like a polyester tent by no means the walls are fairly thick
So I like it and you're using it for hunting or if you're using it for photography I
Would definitely recommend it and go by definitely?
And like I said, it's bought this with my own money
It's not like they gave it to me and said hey or hype it up. No not at all
But this is just you know
This is just first impressions, okay, that's what this is I mean
I haven't had it up yet, so let's keep in that in mind. I want to get waterproofed and
Really do some tests. I'm gonna leave it outside all week and
Hopefully I can get a waterproof before it rains and then I want to come out here when it rains and
Sit out here, and see how it does
But this is pretty cool
Now it's probably not meant to be used as a
As a tent you know it's meant that uses a blind so
When guys like me are trying to use as a tenable of course where I?
Mean you're trying to carry the least amount as you can the least amount of weight
if I could carry this in two miles with my camera and
You know some other superlight gear
Because this is thirty pounds right off the bat, I mean that would be nice
You're on the choices carry this in set it up walk back get what you need
You know your backpack your gun whatever your camera and go back again. Make two trips
You you can also do that?
but if you're gonna do it all in one trip, and I was gonna do it with just me my camera my dog I
Don't need to think that would be I mean it would be but I don't know
Cuz I'm thinking you know I got a purify water. I got a carry water and now I
Don't think so
But even the blinds at weight 20 pounds. I mean think about that whether it's 20 pounds and 30 pounds
What's the difference you're still carrying it on your back? You're still limiting how much space you've got on you
And it is pretty long
even if I was to mount it to the back of my backpack and
then carry it out I
Might be able to do that
That's possible mm-hmm I
Have to mess with that one of these days and because I have the Caparo backpack and it can carry an easy hundred pounds
So maybe I need to try that
See if I can get this all done up and in mount it to the back of my backpack
And then I would have everything that you know
That might work that just might work yeah
And you could go for an ultralight hammock system, it's it's more on the ground if you wanted to
Things to think about
So this is the Barnett blind the big one the new one LT ox5
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