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We use the stove that was made for it. It's a small, about 40 pounds, cylinder shaped wood stove that packs into itself for easier carying. I don't know the model but I would think you could find them at any store that makes or sells these tents. Just looked at Cabelas and they have it as the hunter stove.

Edited by - bigbulls on 09/10/2002 21:31:27

I have one of the Hunter model woodburning stoves manufactured by Cylinder Stoves of Utah. I'm pretty sure it is the same stove bigbulls is talking about in his post. Here is a picture of the stove -


Here is a link to Cylinder Stoves website - http://www.cylinderstoves.com/ . I have the complete package including water tank, warming tray, and nesting stovepipe. I use it to heat a 12'x14' Montana Canvas wall tent. I am extremely happy with the stove. If you pack it full and damp it down it will burn all night, and keep the tent warm! If you open the vents on the front of the stove and open the damper it will make the interior of your tent so hot you'll think you are in a sauna. The water tank is great too. If you put it on the side of the stove toward the door it forces the heat back into the interior of the tent. It will give you hot water anytime you need it, and as an added bonus it humidifies the inside of the tent preventing the dreaded dried out sinuses and nosebleeds. Every detail on the Cylinder Stoves are very weel thought out, and I would highly reccomend them.

I purchased the tent, frame and stove package from Cabela's. I chose to purchase from Cabela's rather than manufacturer direct for two reasons: 1.) Total cost was actually less because of Cabela's freight charges 2.) Cabela's has the best customer service in the hunting industry.

I have also hunted out of wall tents heated with Cabela's Sheephearder's brand stoves, both the Packer and Alaskan models. These are both good stoves and will provide plenty of heat. The only complaint I have about them is that you better have a good pair of leather gloves on every time you try to open the stove door or adjust the vents, otherwise you better pack plenty of burn cream and bandages.

Here is a picture of my tent set up in northern Wyoming during the fall of 2000. It was about 15 degrees when this picture was taken, and the inside of the tent was toasty warm.


"If you can't change your circumstances then you need to change your perspective."

Edited by - RuRu12 on 09/10/2002 22:00:42

I use a wood stove in my tents. Several companies make pack stoves that fold up. Cablea's usually have a few in the catalog.

I have seen some propane stoves used but be sure to have them vented because they can kill you. They produce carbon monixide.

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Yep RuRu12, that's the same one. We have the whole package wxcept for the pipe oven. It works great, can actually get real dang hot in the tent. We use it to heat a 10x12. If you can use coal at night it lasts a lot longer than wood.

bigbulls - When you burn coal how much do you put in the stove? How much do you use for a week of hunting? I don't have the oven either, although I'm considering ordering one. Do you have any experience with the ovens and how they work?

The first time I used mine I made a real bonehead mistake, and got a real education. I thought that I would put myself ahead of the game and not have to cut wood in my hunting area if I took it with me. I cut, split and transported half a cord of WV Red Oak to Wyoming. Much to my amazement I found out that the Red Oak barely burned and gave off almost no heat at 8,000 feet. Apparently there is not enough oxygen at that elevation to burn the denser oak. I was able to get it to burn by mixing it with Lodgepole Pine that I cut the next day, but that first night was a cold one!

"If you can't change your circumstances then you need to change your perspective."

Edited by - RuRu12 on 09/11/2002 13:50:09

we use a small coleman propane stove to heat the tent up before bed, then we climb into some really nice sleeping bags and stay warm all night. We use Springbar canvas tents.

We camp at about 11,000 feet on the skyline drive when elk hunting in utah.

I don't know about where you live but I go to a local rock / landscape place and get a 50 pound bag of large chunks of coal, just small enough to fit in the door. Get the tent warmed up with wood about an hour before you go to sleep to get some good coals then put about 4 or 5 chunks of coal in there and close the vent to where it gets just enough air to smolder. You might have to stoke it once but it beats 2 or 3 times a night. The bag usually lasts about 2 weeks, seasons for us here, or so.

we usually use an old army stove that you can use gas,diesel,kerosene,wood.we usually use diesel and fill up a couple of jerry cans and stay warm in my 14x16 canvas tent five gallons will run from 5 to 30 hours depending on what you have it set on and since the truck is disel we always have a supply if we run out just have to make sure both tanks are full before we head up. got a bigger tent this year hope it keeps us warm i sure it will though.i am ready to go got it the tent set up and checking everything out today.

We use the Mr. Heat and a large propane tank to heat my cnvas tent [a 12X12 surplus tent. It will drive us out if we allow it. If there is any drawback, it is that we would like to be able to reduce the heat even lower than the low setting but can't.

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