Getting Ready For Next Season
05-11-2013, 12:04 PM
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Boone & Crockett
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Location: River Ridge, LA (Suburb of New Orleans)
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Getting Ready For Next Season
Just finished building my new two-man "High Chair" deer stand. Now all it needs is some camo netting hung around the shooting rail.
05-11-2013, 04:53 PM
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Boone & Crockett
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It's really complete - a full materials list, a tools list, and step-by-step build directions. The material cost is about $125 and it can be built over a weekend (about twelve hours total).
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05-11-2013, 05:02 PM
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Boone & Crockett
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We don't have any elephants down here in S.E. Louisiana Valentine.
It comes apart by removing a hand full of 1/4" galvanized bolts. It's laid down with the ladder side on the ground (a one man job). Remove the bolts and it breaks down into four modules - ladder (about 75 lbs.), rear support frame (about 45 lbs.), seat module (about 30 lbs.), and floor module (about 30 lbs.). One person can carry the lighter modules a few hundred yards with ease. The ladder unit would be tough for one guy to carry more than a short distance. But two can carry it with no problem.
It's a fifteen or twenty minute job to either assemble or disassemble it, and the four modules can be carried in a short bed pick-up.
05-11-2013, 06:17 PM
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Typical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Northern WI
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Nice stand! Seems like it would be fairly easy to build. I just finished building a two-level box type stand. I designed it myself using a 1/8 scale prototype (or as my wife calls it, my toy) and then built the actual stand. The shooting height is about 15' and you have two ladders so you can climb with both hands. The bottom level could be used as a place for a parent when hunting with a child on a youth hunt. The top is boxed in, to shield against the cold WI gun hunt weather - for now it will be a gun stand but I could use it for archery by modifying my sides (they may be switched out as needed). A photo of the actual stand and also a photo of the 1/8 scale model are shown below. And you probably would need an elephant to move mine - it is built on location. I built it myself and did not need any ladders or scaffolding - you build the bottom level and then from there build the top. All from 8 ft lumber.
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