Anyone have plans to build a deer blind?
#11
We built a few this year and had some very good results using them. In fact, I plan on adding a couple more to our property for the 2010 season.
My best advice to you..... make sure you build them with plenty of room. It makes the hunt so much more comfortable if you do and the cost of materials won't be that much more.
My best advice to you..... make sure you build them with plenty of room. It makes the hunt so much more comfortable if you do and the cost of materials won't be that much more.
#13
Typical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Northern Michigan
Posts: 974
these are definitely very nice buildings!!!!!
We built a few this year and had some very good results using them. In fact, I plan on adding a couple more to our property for the 2010 season.
My best advice to you..... make sure you build them with plenty of room. It makes the hunt so much more comfortable if you do and the cost of materials won't be that much more.
My best advice to you..... make sure you build them with plenty of room. It makes the hunt so much more comfortable if you do and the cost of materials won't be that much more.
#14
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Nebraska
Posts: 186
However, us carpenter types can produce a very nice building w/ some nice site lines!!! I don't care what my buds, or neighbors thinks how it looks, I'm trying to meld into the landscape. A box looks like a box, no matter what paint or camo pattern you adorn your den away from home in. Think about what you are trying to accomplish, Not to stick out like a sore thumb in your surroundings, hence the term camouflage. What I like to do is "break up" the site lines, right angles. Siding is huge! After my substrate, I cover w/ felt paper/ or my fave ice shield, then I tack/screw pine or oak branches as tight as I can get them to the substrate vertically. Now if you build on the ground, around the foundation, I "plant" ivy, or any type of vine indigenious to the area next to it, so it climbs and engulfs the structure in order to break up the lines and have to cut out the windows and dorr. Off the ground, I have planter boxes around the bottom and install same. It "must" look like a bush, or you are defeating your purpose. In Michigan we have grape vines, which I also use for my tree stand ladder, and stand. The more you have to trim for accessability, the better off you are. You are'nt supposed to be there!!!!! It's their backyard, not yours!!!!
#16
We built a few this year and had some very good results using them. In fact, I plan on adding a couple more to our property for the 2010 season.
My best advice to you..... make sure you build them with plenty of room. It makes the hunt so much more comfortable if you do and the cost of materials won't be that much more.
My best advice to you..... make sure you build them with plenty of room. It makes the hunt so much more comfortable if you do and the cost of materials won't be that much more.
#18
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: MN
Posts: 342
I built a similar 5'x4' stand this spring for about $500. I would think you could do it for $300, depending on how fancy you wanted to make it. If you pick the right window design, and the right dimensions for drawing your bow, I would think it would be fine for bow hunting. Animals will come right up to them.
I got my elevators at Gander Mountain. They were cheaper there, plus they had free shipping. http://www.gandermountain.com/modper...ID=4008&r=view
I got my elevators at Gander Mountain. They were cheaper there, plus they had free shipping. http://www.gandermountain.com/modper...ID=4008&r=view