tonight 5 does stepped out @100 yds away and looked right at me in my T2 blind. i have used my matrix for quite a few yrs and have become pretty good at setting it in the right position and right angles to incoming deer. but this T2 is different. since primos took over i wonder what they are doing different. i can see the T2 does not have as thick of material for the walls. i wonder if they are using UV brightners as well, or using a different finish that adds a shine. but i guess i will go back to carrying the extra weight of the matrix. anyone else noticing a difference?

i think they shine at least all the new ones do on a good sunny day if they aren't brushed in real well. i try to brush it all in so it looks like a bush and keep it in the shadows

I wish the deer reacted to the blinds like the turkeys do, but most of the time deer always see the blinds.

  I believed that if I carried the 17 pound DB blind into the woods and set it up, that's all there would be to it. If you have to brush them in all of the time, what's the point?

  Blind companies suggest that you brush them in for a reason. I just didn't listen close enough.

  The deer in Ohio are really smart!

i almost always use the wind and shadows in my setups. i,ve noticed that using good background and the shadows is very important. i have the most success in the evenings too. i don't brush in all the time and have had consistence results. i've just notice a difference in blinds from my newer one to the older one. my newer one, the T2, seems to upset deer easier.

When we use layout blinds for goose hunting the manufacture suggest a thing called mudding your blind to nock down the shine. You simply get a bucket of dirt and add water mix up a mud slurry and brush it on the blind with a broom and allow to dry. Then brush off all the loose dirt and the shine is gone. It works like a charm. I havent did it yet to my double bull but I plan on it soon.

that's different, i hadn't ever thought of that for a portable blind. i will have to try that. thanx.

I always allow 3-4 days for deer to get use to my ground blind. Rarely have any luck setting up and hunting it the same day. Brushed in or not they have to get use to it.

Dito on what T Folts said.
We always had trouble when we first started useing the lay out blinds with the geese flaring from the shine a little mud an problem solved!