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Demonical

Demonical

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Built this stand today. I had pre-fabbed the floor, walls and roof.

I found one standing dead poplar, broken off, that was still solidly rooted. Then dug 3 holes with ~6' spacing, 2' deep. Cut some old timber for posts and dropped them in. With them tamped in as tight as I could get, then cross-bracing, they are pretty damn solid. All anchoed off that one old poplar.

It's not very high. Didn't really need to be, since it's on a hill over-looking a valley, that deer travel through.

This stand is looking over a camera, where I had pics of a really nice whitetail from Nov 2012. I'm hoping that buck is still traveling the area. Last year he only showed up during the rut...
 
nice job
Not to be picky but
How tall are the windows ? are you going to stand all day?
if a deer shows up at the base are you going to be able to see him ?
 
Winnipeg Toymaker said:
very nice but now you need to disguise the stand by hanging spruce boughs from the walls and braces. Guaranteed that the wildlife will notice it as it is.
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That's the beauty of setting it up in the summer. By the time he's inside the thing in the fall the deer will be used to it since it'll have been sitting there for months already. All hanging a bunch of boughs from it will do is decrease his vision and mobility when he's in the thing. Not to mention tripping hazards when getting in and out of it. If he wanted to have a bunch of tree branches stuck in his face while he's hunting he could just stay on the ground. :D
 
I built another treestand today. This time I just dug 4 holes, sunk the posts, braced them everywhich way, then assembled the pre-fabbed pieces.

A mere 5 hours later, and stand No.2 is done.







 
Dorian Gray said:
That's the beauty of setting it up in the summer. By the time he's inside the thing in the fall the deer will be used to it since it'll have been sitting there for months already. All hanging a bunch of boughs from it will do is decrease his vision and mobility when he's in the thing. Not to mention tripping hazards when getting in and out of it. If he wanted to have a bunch of tree branches stuck in his face while he's hunting he could just stay on the ground. :D
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Yep, I put one up last summer with a roof and some hinged Lexan windows for the really cold days. I prefabbed it in the farmyard and primed it white to help weather proof it. Never got a chance to do the camo paint job before season but it turned out the deer didn't give a $&@# by that point, they packed trails within 10 yards on both sides of it. Wound up shooting my buck out of a cold as hell tree stand anyways, but it did see some use on a couple nasty days.
 
Looks good, a suggestion narrow up your openings and have a method of blocking off some of the openings. It serves two purposes; 1. it cuts off your siloette against the sky from the deer's point of view. 2. It will block rain and wind and keep you more comfortable. We have about a doz. at our camp. Our first stands had large openings and the deer/moose could see you in them a mile away. Also plywood is noisy and echo's movement noise such as moving your feet and chair legs. Put old scrap carpet on the floor to deaden sound and have a swivel chair to sit in. We have spooked many deer over the years from the stands with no carpet and large openings. We have changed many over to the newer stealthy configuration and had much better success rates in those stands.

My own stand is a 6'x6' with 12" openings all around. Each side has two 36" that swing in and up. So I can open and look where I want and be out of view. Floor is carpeted with stool type swivel chair, all scrounged. Deer do look up. They know the stands are there, and I have seen many come into the view of the stand and stop and watch it for movement or anything out of the ordinary to them for several minutes before proceeding.

Hopes this gives you some ideas, you might as well have the benefit of our mistakes.
 
mrgoat said:
Looks good, a suggestion narrow up your openings and have a method of blocking off some of the openings. It serves two purposes; 1. it cuts off your siloette against the sky from the deer's point of view. 2. It will block rain and wind and keep you more comfortable. We have about a doz. at our camp. Our first stands had large openings and the deer/moose could see you in them a mile away. Also plywood is noisy and echo's movement noise such as moving your feet and chair legs. Put old scrap carpet on the floor to deaden sound and have a swivel chair to sit in. We have spooked many deer over the years from the stands with no carpet and large openings. We have changed many over to the newer stealthy configuration and had much better success rates in those stands.

My own stand is a 6'x6' with 12" openings all around. Each side has two 36" that swing in and up. So I can open and look where I want and be out of view. Floor is carpeted with stool type swivel chair, all scrounged. Deer do look up. They know the stands are there, and I have seen many come into the view of the stand and stop and watch it for movement or anything out of the ordinary to them for several minutes before proceeding.

Hopes this gives you some ideas, you might as well have the benefit of our mistakes.
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Some great suggestions, almost as good as Duck Dynasty guys putting a camper trailer up on posts....:D
 
mrgoat, thanks for the ideas. I will use those suggestions!

I was very aware of the noisy floor, when I was moving around on it. And putting something on the back to eliminate silouhette is a great idea.
 
Very nice Domeonical and congrats. You have a true love for hunting to go through all that work, or should I say the labour of love for hunting. You will be comfortable for sure in those home away from home this fall. Are you going to camoflauge it with paint?
 
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