Overview
Any serious hunter that takes their kids with them knows that you quickly default to a “comfort” strategy after 1 or 2 “cold” mornings in a deer blind. My family owns a 106-acre piece of land in West Texas that we purchased for the family to hunt with multi-generations (my dad, my brother, my kids, and nephews). We had one of our most hunted homemade blinds, “The Frog Blind,” we called it, overlooking one of the best spots on the property. But after years of wind, rain, and varmint infestations, it was time to upgrade The Frog Blind to something more comfortable and kid-friendly.
In 2021 we added an All Seasons Feeder Big Chingon to the ranch and have loved that blind, but this spot is on a hill with a little more limited vehicle access, and I wanted to purchase something a little lighter for this spot to ease in our setup. After a lot of shopping around and research, we chose the Texas Hunters Products 5×7 Wrangler model, which was a similar price point to the Big Chingon at a $4699 retail price.
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Texas Hunter Products 5x7 Wrangler Camo Hunting Blind
$4699.00- 5 x 7 ft octagon with a 6’3’’ ceiling
- Made of 20 gauge aluminum, with a 4 ft powder-coated stand with stairs
- Features 7 windows with concealment inserts that feature tinted pains to help break up your silhouette
- The entire interior of the blind is carpeted to cut down noise and help with insulation
- Comes with one shelf on the front of the blind with 3 cupholders and a swivel shooting rest, and gun rests on both ends of the shelf
- It is also bug and weatherproof as well as rust and leak-proof
What we liked:
Blind is well-built and made to last. It is very comfortable, and the overall setup took less than two hours with the proper tools and equipment. In total, the blind only weighs around 600 pounds, making the setup manageable with 3 people. The blind is pretty much bug proof and varmint proof which is far better than many of the homemade blinds I’m used to hunting out of and the insulation provided by the floor to ceiling carpeting helps to keep the interior warm in the winter and cooler in the summer. The concealment windows allow you to customize your site lines while still breaking up your silhouette.
Who we think will like this product:
You can both rifle and bow hunt out of this blind, and there is a factory option for longer vertical windows more suitable for bow hunting, but this blind is primarily designed for rifle hunters. This blind works well on a South Texas Sendero or West Texas hillside. There is plenty of room for 3 adults to hunt, with floor space for kids.
Pro tips:
- I purchased and reviewed this blind and the All Seasons Feeder Big Chingon. Both are similar price points (just under $5k MSRP). In my opinion, the Big Chingon is a much better blind for the money. It is larger, better insulated, and has about 10x the shelf space inside the blind. The Big Chingon is much heavier and more difficult to set up or move, weighing about twice as much as the Wrangler.
- We use All Season Feeder’s EZ Blind Chairs in this blind. They fold down, so they don’t take up much room if not in use, but the best feature of these chairs is the height adjustments for kids. On regular chairs, I always had to have my kids sit on my pack or a booster seat, but with the EZ Blind Chairs, I can adjust their height so my kids can see out the windows.
Pros
- Durable construction made with rust and leak-proof material
- Very comfortable blind with adequate windows and the added concealment of the extra tinted pains
- Padded floor mats help to cut down noise caused by internal movement
- Blind is lightweight for its size and easy to set up or move
Cons
- Even though the blind is 5 x 7 ft, the octagon shape cuts down on the square footage inside the blind
- Limited shelf space inside the blind, but the front shelf is nice and equipped with drink holders, a gun rest, and notches to lean your rifle, but shelf space is limited only to this one shelf
- I think the blind is a bit overpriced compared to other similar products on the market
Video Reviews
Nick Zinsmeyer
Nick is a lifelong Texan and hunter of native big game, exotic animals, predators, waterfowl, migrator birds, and fur-bearing animals. Nick is an expert in hunting with several legal means, including archery, black powder/muzzleloader rifles, and long-range rifles.
He has hunted in several states across the United States, both on private and public land. He spends most of his time hunting all over Texas, including several years in the storied South Texas Brush Country, Central Texas Hill Country, and West Texas. In addition to hunting across the country, Nick runs wildlife management programs on multiple ranches in Texas, focusing on conservation and quality deer management.
Nick was published in Texas Trophy Hunters magazine in 2020, where he told his story of harvesting a trophy whitetail from a public land drawn hunt, and again in 2022 for a DIY Elk hunt in Arizona where he harvested a 358 net-inch bull.
