What do you sit on?
 

Fairly obvious for a tree stand, but I bowhunt front a popup blind for bow season and a box blind for gun season. I've used old office chairs, bag chairs buckets with a heat pad, and folding chairs...each has their pros and cons. I've seen some swivel blind seats without back it seems like they would get uncomfortable quick.

What do you use in either a popup blind or box stand and why?

You mean to say...
 

you don't use an e z boy lounge.

Just kidding.

The manufacturers, I guess, don't want to get into how heavy the real comfortable stuff is? Modern coach potatoes need all the comfort assistance they can get.

The problem in the end is just getting those comfort lounges into the woods. Even if the tower stand is less than 100 yards from a trail or road.

Manufacturers don't even bring it up.

Of course, if you were in West Texas......

I use my dove hunting stool. There are stools that double bull and other companies that are putting out there. I use a folding hunting stool. It's quiet , sturdy, and I just put a hunting cushion on it to stay comfortable for those longer waits. Plus, you can pick one up reasonable. Here in Tennessee, a "dove" stool is on every sporting goods store shelf, I probably have 3 or 4 hanging in my shop, mainly because, I get all my stuff together for a trip to the dove field, and I'll forget that @$&! stool and have to stop and pick one up. They are also light to carry

I have a 3 legged stool that folds up. Has a triangular seat. Is ok if I'm not sitting all day.

Folding camp chair. They're light, inexpensive, portable, and fairly comfortable, and sit high enough to look out a pop-up blind without straining. If someone steals them, I'm only out $10.

Either a folding camp chair or a 5 gal bucket

X 2...They come in a variety of colors also, even camo nowadays.

Camp Chair for bow or rifle?
 

I used a camp chair most of last year..the only time i didn't was when it broke and I ended up sitting on a bucket until my butt went numb. The down side of the camp chair was it was difficult to use my bow out of it...I found it easier to set the chair back a bit and if I needed to draw to slip to a knee in the pop up blind to shoot. Rifle wasn't much of an issue...

If its gun hunting we use office chairs in our box blinds. My father who is touching 70 likes to pick up a bigger and better office chair to bring to deer camp every year just to drive our buddies crazy. Last one was a high back leather chair with arm rests and a massage button (broken). I think it only cost him $30. I swear he does it just to get a kick out of his friends but I think he spends half the morning hunts sleeping so it works out for him.

For the rest of the blinds I have laboratory office chairs in them. They are the same as office chairs just made out of think plastic where the fabric usually goes. They are comfortable, rain runs right off and the rodents don't knaw into them. They really make hunts more comfortable when not seeing anything. I also get them if they are broken (missing wheel or don't adjust) for $5 and they are around $300 new. I'll just put a wood block under the missing wheel or adjust it and keep it at the same height.

I've also used the folding lawn chairs before. They are cheap and work well and usually cost less than $10 so if they break its not a big loss.

I like to take 2 tires, drill 3 or 4 matching holes, then bolt them together. Then I bolt 2 2x4's on the top. Followed by screwing several 2x4's perpindicular, onto the first 2 2x4's to make the top. A jigsaw or circular saw to trim the wood top so it is round and flush to the tire edge. Use power sander to make top smooth and level. I leave it on the stand, and a couple along paths, permanently. The tires make it a bit spongy, especially if you use ATV tires. You can turn any direction quietly. Move against a tree if you want a back rest. Turn on it's side when not using to keep the snow off. I made the first one to get rid of a pair of tires, and since have made several more because I liked it so much. Looks RedNeckish but is the best hunting seat I've used to date.
I'll see about taking a picture the next time I go to check on the food plot.

For blind hunting with a bow, I use a large poly tree container with a round plywood piece fastened to the bottom. With the plywood, it supports me fine. It is the right height for bow hunting and with a rope attached at two points it doubles as a bucket to carry blind material, pine boughs for camo, etc. I also use this bucket when gun hunting from behind natural cover or tree. For a permanent blind gun hunting, I use any old chair with a back, making sure it is at the proper height for shooting - preferably a chair that does not creak when I move. For hunting on a slope, I use a wood plywood seat attached to iron pipe with pipe flange that I may stick into the ground straight - this is nice in that I may swivel around and I am sitting straight up.

I use a bucket seat out of an old ford van. I built a platform out pf 2x12 and bolted the seat to it. It still has the recliner in it so you can lay back if you need to.

I just sit back on my haunches. I can move around in the blind much more freely without a seat in my way. If I'm there for more than 6hours then I need to take a knee.

..........wait for it.........

.......waaaait foor it.......

no not really!! if I hunted out of a land fort I'd atleast have a hammock and a pillow!LoL! Heh,Heh,Heh!

Hey misc, can anyone recommend a good office chair for 10-12+ hours of use? I want to buy a good quality chair and so far, I have run through some of the cheap $150-$200 chairs

I sit on a swivel folding chair in my permanent tree stand. For those of you using a 5 gallon bucket, you might want to try a lawn tractor tire inner tube that is less than fully inflated. When I hunted ducks out of a barnegat bay sneak box for ducks you sit on the floor of the boat and the only thing we found really comfortable for sitting for hours on the floor of the boat with your legs stretched out in front of you was a lawn tractor inner tube. It cannot be fully inflated thugh because it will become uncomfortable, you want it inflated just enough that it gives but doesn't allow the top to touch the bottom of the tube.

I sit on my butt. Thought everyone did.

Some in other areas far... far away sit on their haunches. I am sure in your travels flags you have seen that first hand.:patriot:

Yes but this is an American site with mostly Americans posting so it is logical to assume they also sit on their butts. However you are correct in many African and Middle Eastern countries they do squat on their haunches. Pretty uncomfortable to hold that position for long though.

My brother was a career Navy man who rotated on a 3 year assignment as a Sere Instructor in Maine. I got to visit the facility during an off time and forcing the participants into a squat position was a form of "training" they used. Americans just aren't built to allow that position for very long. He liked the navy, still carries his challenge coin and got hired in the aerospace/ military industry as a second career. I didn't visit him but another brother did when he made Chief in Florida. It was quite a ceremony.

I do my best to not sit. The last two seasons with my wife hunting, we've done more sitting. I take a lawn chair for her. And I sit on a three legged stool that was probably a walmart special.


It doesn't have any back support, so that gets old.. But I find it allows me to watch 360deg easier than sitting in a regular lawn chair does.


-Jake

I often bring a folding chair in. i dii have a couple of old three-legged stools out in the woods that I stashed.

usually my butt

Go to Amazon and type in Browning Camping Huntsman Chair. This is a 3 legged chair and the legs are adjustable for uneven ground. The chair swivel 360. This is the chair I use in my Ameristep Element ground blind. Works great.

I have used this in my PCV frame blind since way back 1993 or so. Mine is alum tubes I covered with pipe insulation to prevent noise if I were to hit it.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=...20529829351653


For my perment box blinds I use two others and a couple of bag chairs.


I like back support now adays. when I was just a pup I carryed a home made sort of directors chair short and no back. when I found a place I wanted to sit I just unfolded it.

:D. Al

I've always loved the swivel blind chairs.

Depends. When hunting from a blind, I usually sit on the ground, no chair. I often go for long hikes and bringing a chair with me is not possible, I also carry a portable blind, which is tiny.

When Turkey hunting on private land I bring a chair sometimes, but really don't mind sitting on the ground.

I am 28, so might change my mind soon.

We use the Guide Gear 360 Degree Swivel Hunting Blind Chairs from Sportsmans Guide. You can sit for a LONG time in these, the swivel is silent and they come with a sling to carry in.

I'd post a link but I'm still a noob...:p

My favorite is the old fashion folding aluminum lawn chair with the webbing. Solid, strong, portable and easy to get in & out of. Hard to find today, but do last. (An you can't find them anywhere) The newer ones in a bag that telescope out with the canvas seats take less room to pack, but are hard to get out of and to us aren't really that comfortable. But that's just my opinion. Btw, I've just got a nice recliner for my bad back indoors. Works amazingly

This
https://www.sportsmansguide.com/prod...iABEgJNxvD_BwE

It is very comfortable, almost too comfortable. I have a 360 brand tower stand and all I have to do is mover my feet and I can turn around to look out all the shooting windows without moving my body.

I carry a backpack with all my gear. It has external clasps and I can carry a 3 legged collapsible chair with a back. It weighs almost nothing and is camo. Got it at dicks a few years ago.

I hike in quite aways from the parking area, so I want a light weight, easy to carry seat. I have settled on a tree sling type seat. It weighs nearly nothing, can be adjusted for height, you use the tree as a back rest, and it is very quiet and the ability to swivel almost 360 degrees. This seat fits in the bottom of my day pack and hardly takes any room. A Bonus with this seat is that it can also be used as a harness for hauling out your deer if lucky.

I was wondering if this thread can get going again? What are the most comfortable chairs for blinds nowadays? There are so many to choose from?

Check out my post near the middle of the thread.