Pop up blind zipper noise, slow and silent or quick and loud?

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The past few years i've started setting up a pop up ground blind in a few spots and i always wonder about the noise of getting into and out of them. The main problem is the sipper on the door and the noise it makes.

I have tried going super slow and making very little noise, but it would take forever to open it up the whole way and then close it again and i want to get in and set up in as little time as possible and not be sitting there making noise and moving around for an extended period of time.

If i zip it quick and get in and sit it's a loud unnatural noise that i can only assume is a noise that animals would avoid if heard, but it's over with quickly.

For those of you who use pop up blinds how do you handle the zippers getting in and out?
 
If youre going to modify it, I'd go with magnets (like those bug screen deals) before velcro. Velcro just changes the ziiip to a riiiip
 
What do you do in the forest when you hear a strange noise in close proximity?

You stop walking and you listen ..... right?

And what do you do when you can't determine what that noise was?

You continue walking .... right?

Deer do exactly the same thing!

Close that zipper quick and loud!

And don't make a noise afterwards .....
 
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Slow and silent for me when setting up a popup blind in the turkey woods. I find that if I pull the blind material together and then zip, it's a bit quieter.
 
Zippers aren't that loud. The sound isn't going to carry far. I've walked in, got into the blind and had deer walk by before I was fully settled in. Don't worry too much about the zipper
 
As already stated, the sound won't carry far, and anything close enough to hear is gonna be alerted to the noise of you walking in. When I leave my blind, I leave the door open, to reduce the noise I make. Once I'm settled in, got my chair where I want it, binos hanging, sling off, etc, I zip it closed. I'm typically 80 to 120 yards from my bait. At that distance, a squirrel makes more noticeable noise than a zipper, no matter how you open/close it.
 
Is perhaps some "human arrogance" that what human can hear or not hear must mean same for everything else? Whales and elephants hear much lower frequencies than we do - we say is "silent", while they are talking to each other. At higher frequencies - we think dog whistle is silent - canines do not think so. What makes you think what is loud or quiet to you is loud or quiet to a deer?? Perhaps like camouflage - might conceal you from another human - what it was made to do - but does it conceal you from game animal? - much different arrangement and ratio of cones to rods in eyes, for starters - what we can see or not see has not much to do with what other species can or can not see.
 
jbmauser said:
Zippers aren't that loud. The sound isn't going to carry far. I've walked in, got into the blind and had deer walk by before I was fully settled in. Don't worry too much about the zipper
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Considering its been proven that a Whitetail Deer can here cartridges or change rattling in your pocket from over 200 meters away????????
 
bearhunter said:
Considering its been proven that a Whitetail Deer can here cartridges or change rattling in your pocket from over 200 meters away????????
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I'm not saying deer don't have phenomenal hearing compared to ours, I'm saying a zipper isn't that loud. As others have stated and based on my own experiences, you're often going to make a lot more noise walking into your blind than the zipper makes. Crunchy leaves, crunchy snow, snap a branch by accident, etc. If it's dead calm and you have a perfect trail up to your blind that you can access without making a sound then maybe worry about the zipper noise.
 
bearhunter said:
Considering its been proven that a Whitetail Deer can here cartridges or change rattling in your pocket from over 200 meters away????????
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Lol ... ROFL ...

From what direction was the wind blowing?
How strong was the wind?

Yes on a cold quiet morning without any breeze ... sounds travel quite far ... But on most days a wind is blowing .... and you (and deer) can't hear much from down wind ... Definitely deer can't hear "change rattling in your pocket" at 200 yards from down wind ....
 
Here is my only first hand experience with "zipper noise"..... I was sitting in an elevated box blind last fall when several elk emerged from the forest 200 m north of me. They gradually fed closer to me until two were about 60 meters. The draw elk season would open in a week and so I didn't want to spook these when I exited the stand. It was getting dark, so I decided a loud aggressive bugle would clear them out without causing them to leave the country. So, I pulled out my call and let loose. Five heads came up and stared at the blind for about 10 seconds, then they all went back to munching alfalfa. What to do? Drastic action was required....I zipped my pack shut. Bingo! the lead cow was about 120 m away. Her head shot up and she let out a warning bark. The whole bunch then trotted off the field.
"That worked very well" I congratulated myself. However, that herd did not come back to that field to feed. That lead cow must have had twitchy nervous system or a sixth sense!
 
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