For years I spent 2 of my 4 weeks of vacation with the family doing things intresting to the family. But the last 2 weeks remaining were mine alone. They were for deer hunting on land I owned or family owned so I never had the nightmare of having a deer blind taken/taken overby another hunter.
Since My hunting property is a 6 1/2 hour drive, for years I would go into the cedar swamp with a roll of builders twine, a folding pruning saw and hand pruning shears and build a blind to hide my human form. Then I decided that keeping the rain drops off my head were something to think about so started carrying a 6x6 sheet of plastic sheeting, I never left the sheeting in the woods when I stopped hunting.
I also did several in the hard woods this way but found the cedar swamps more productive. Some of these quick build blinds are still in good shape even after 10 years.
We all get older and wadeing the ankle deep water across the cranberry bogs got tireing as did the getting the deer across them.
There are several fingers sticking out in the cranberry bogs which are easy to get to so we decided to build high rise perment stands in 2003.
We built four ofthem for next to nothing from old scrap lumber given to us at home building sites just for cleaning the place up. I built two more from wood given to me by some one tearing down an old barn. All I had to buy was nails and lag bolts to put the sections together onceI got them to the site.
I asked around at work about old paint and stains people might want to get rid of, after seeing a story about recycleing on a news program. I got lots of half full gallon cans of deck stain and exterior paint free that way.
This one is in the hard woods over looking a narrow spot in the cedar swamp and is very productive.
We heat them with back packing cook stoves.
Here is a link to boughten deer blinds too. Scroll to the bottom to see the blinds.
http://www.ehuntingblinds.com/
Doing a google search for home made deer blinds didn't turn up much either.
I did at one time have plans from Outdoor life for what they called portable but the cost was $300.00 plus and was only portable if you had a 25 horse power tractor to skid it around with.
Al
The deer blind.
