After many messy years, I finally decided to clean all blinds. Got the Honda 2200 and a new powerful small shop vac, and got after it. Looks nice. Maybe some curtains and a small area rug would be nice.

I like a clean blind
I have never understood why the tobacco guys leave a spit bottle every time they hunt in one.

would you rather they spit on the floor?

Cleaned ours out recently using a hand vac and extension cord hooked up to the trucks 400 amp power outlet.

Be careful with that generator. 8 or 9 years ago someone on my lease decided to vacuum his blind and 5000 acres later they got the fire put out.

I like to clean mine before season starts. just take a battery powered blower and done in just a couple minutes. Oh, and don't forget the wasp spray and maybe mouse bait

I usually clean all the blinds twice per year. Battery powered vac.

I have been remiss this year, but 6 outa 7 are pretty darn tight. The 7th I leave until I know someone's gonna be in there. It's a hold-over from the previous owner, built with an electrical conduit frame (he was a CPS lineman, so I'm guessing rate payers paid for that) and plywood. He didn't build it tall enough to stand in, although I'm certain the conduit comes in 10' lengths standard. It's really the packrats' blind. I try to poison the bastards, but there's always a few survivors. It will be abandoned after this season. 'Gonna have some clearing done and set a new blind, looking north and looking over the feeder from the utmost southeast, higher corner.

By-the-by, battery-powered vac is the correct answer.

You guys go on with your little hand vacs. I have a new small and light Ridgid shop vac that’ll suck the spots off a bobcat. I put it and the Honda generator and extension cord in the bed of the Kubota and drive to the blinds. It’s a great little shop vac.

It's a deer blind. 'Health Dept. isn't scheduled.

if you have a dirty deer blind you probably have a dirty camp too

You havent seen dirty till a buzzard raised her 2 chicks in one of ours! yep that was one smell you will never
forget! one of windows was open, plywood cover didnt get closed all the way and so she made a nice nest
for them.... Wow, no pics, needless to say i didnt not hunt that blind last year! all sorts of bones, skeletons,
etc all over there. Not to mention the fertilizer spread wall to wall!........

Yep, the buzzards. The guy that had this land before us had, at some point, a one holer outhouse. When he got indoor plumbing, he moved the outhouse and used it as a deer stand. The buzzards moved in and raised many years of little buzzards, and used the outhouse in a non-standard fashion. It really stinks, and we have long since abandoned it to the buzzards. I will, on occasion, take visitors to look at baby buzzards, which are quite cute when very young. They do get ugly fast.

If I remember correctly they are snow white when born, has been a while since I have seen some.

Why don’t you burn it?

I’d have to move it to a safe place to burn. That’s work I don’t need to do. Plus, city folk do like to see a real one holer outhouse.

I have had to use a one holer with perfectly good, working indoor plumbing 50' away, 'cause the , now ex's homesteading grandfather imagined (at 90) that the well was going dry; just north of downtown Abbott, NM. He built that little adobe brick house with his own two hands. They don't make 'em like that any more.

I'm abandoning a blind left by the previous owner after this season. 'Guess I oughta leave one side open for "nesting habitat."

If you are hunting in someone else's blind. Take any trash, shells, bottles with you. I agree, dirty blind, dirty camp.

No big deal. I have a couple of blinds and a lot of chairs sitting in the brush.Cleaning a deer blind isn’t on my list of priorities.

After 9 hunters over two weekends in 5 blinds, I only found maybe 3 shell casings and one foam ear plug. (16 deer and several turkey taken.) ALL the windows were closed! (The Blynd door wasn't properly latched, but hardly anyone gets that chintzy thing figured out.)

My brother used to just spit sunflower seed hulls on the floor, drove me nuts.

My wife sat with me the first time I took her to the ranch, I opened the door and a momma owl and some juveniles came out. It was rank covered in poop and half eaten rats. She sat in that blind with me, shot a good buck that morning, I’m pretty sure she doesn’t love me that much anymore.

Shake the carpet out from the floor get the chunks out hose the whole shooting match down with a pump sprayer full of heavy mix bleach water and do it all over again.

Went by one of my blinds after Thanksgiving the first year I leased, I supplied the blinds. The windows were open, stopped to close them and there were newspapers scattered, magazines laying around, food wrappers from DQ and beer cans on the floor.

Phone call to the guy who leased and the conversation was really short and to the point.

My blinds were clean after that.

IF the animal isn't DRT and you're waiting 20 to 30 minutes for shock to set in before you go looking for it, it's an excellent time to police up the blind and close everything up. Tapers some of the excitement off too so you and others can concentrate on finding the deer.

Very good advice.

This subject reminded me of an instance a couple years back. I hunt family land with my uncle, who is a stickler for scent control. I mean he's super conscious and vigilant about it. He hunted every type of stand but a box blind because he hated feeling closed in (ok, each to their own). He advanced in age enough that he finally relented and built a box blind to keep warmer and have cover for the more frequent use of the pee jug that comes with age. So we're down there erecting his blind, get it all stood up and ready for him to "move-in", and he breaks out this rug he had that perfectly fit the floor of the stand. We left him to his chores to go do other work. The next weekend I decided to climb in his stand and just look it all over, and when I opened the door the stench of hot, wet, smelly dog about knocked me off of the ladder. It was the rug, it had been used by his lab's for years. I just couldn't believe it, with him being as scent conscious as he's always been, and still is to this day. A couple years later, his stand still smells like wet dog but he's out there before every hunt spraying himself from head to toe with scent killer. Makes me laugh.

But yes, I remove the carpet and sweep out my stand labor day weekend every year.

I think the smell of a lab takes about a decade to go away. They love you so much, they just don't want you to forget them! RIP sweet Daphne Rose Butter Rum. (The wife couldn't go with just "Daphne", and, she did have papers.)