RE: Any experience w/ Ameristep's Doghouse Blind
I've got the regular doghouse.
I sent back an Outhouse because I couldn't use my bow in it. The doghouse seems plenty big to me for one hunter. Two can squeeze in for guns.
I saw deer out of mine the day afte I set it up. Killed two out of it and never moved it all season.
By the end of the season it was working great as a sort of mini base camp. Any time bad weather or short of time I went straight to it. That can be a bad thing to. It's awful EZ to just go where you are already set up and wind up in less than where you want to be just cause it's easy.
A shot gun through the screen blows out just about a third of the screen window but you can get screen at walmart by the yard in the fabric department.
Instead of setting up square with your intended target area, I recomend setting so the corner is sort of between two target areas if possible and you can open the windows adjacent and sit against the opposing corner. This prevents getting back lighted by an open window on the opposing side. I wouldn't recomend ever opening opposing windows. I put string on the "flaps" so I could open and close them if I chose to with out opening anything else.
I also put felt cloth on the vertical velcrow for the screens so if I had time I could slip a gun through and not make any noise to save the screen if possible.
For gun season I highly recomend a folding aluminum camp chair with a back and the BiFurPod shooting sticks from Varmint Al's web sight. I like the folding chair much better than those cloth collapsing things that are all the rage right now. It is lighter and more comfortable. You can move and make "adjustments" easier and quieter than trying to get turned a little sitting in one of those cloth "buckets".
Good luck and hope this helps.