Comfortable Hunting Stands!! (aka:Overkill)

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So I thought I'd post this up for some opinions and entertainment for all. And to show what we did.

Firstly, I bout a quarter specifically for hunting. That's why I bought it. It has a few acres of farm-able on it which I rent out to pay for the taxes. It's on the forest edge, so I have my own access that way. Speaking to a few buddies we thought we would throw up a stand on the farm-able portion and a bait pile so that hunting during those -35 days wasn't quite so hard on our old bodies. HAR! So this is how it started out:

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At this point it was just supposed to be a basic box on legs for 2 people. I don't trust trees so it was 4-4x4x16's that it went up on. I wanted it to last so everything was pressure treated.....

Everything was going along well and then it started to get stupid. We thought, well, let's sheet the whole damn thing in so we can park the quad in the bottom so it stays warm. So here's when that started just after the box went up....

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Then I got a RZR.... and we had to extend the "garage" a bit to have it fit... Since we "had" to do this, we used 2x6 to extend it out, which is why it looks like a grain elevator (a clever ruse to fool the deer....) and so, while we were at it, why not add a second story? Really... why not???

So now it has a ground floor, living floor with a kitchen area, and then there is the final shooting box on top.... Here it is....

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So the ground floor is room to park a quad or RZR, plus an area to store bait.... The second floor has a kitchen area and is carpeted, plus a fold out cot gets left there to sleep on. Shelves are this years project....

And the top floor has a bench, windows to 3 sides all plexiglass-ed plus plywood shutters and is also carpeted. Shelves are to go in here this year. We plan on using carpet to add insulation to the 2nd and top floor this spring.

We used it last year to take 4 does and a coyote. But I left a pile of bucks to get bigger. Of course, everything was done while running a Big Buddy heater to a 20lb propane tank for heat. It's complete overkill.....

Anyone else have something similar? We can't be the only ones building stupid extravagant blinds..... :eek:
 
Add a solar-powered garage door opener and an interior hand-cranked elevator and you're in business! :D

Terrific job, very practical and useful arrangement. Thanks for sharing.
 
Wind was my first thought also. Years ago I built a 4x8 metal framed one using warehouse racking which was about as high as yours, and three weeks after building it it blew over into the tree line. Mine was also covered like yours creating a two story condo, so I ended up taking all the walls off the bottom eliminating the first floor and just had a small box on top (not tall enough to stand in like yours) so the wind can pass through and it was fine after that.
 
It reminds me of the Trojan horse... I expect a bunch of Greek soldiers to pile out any minute :)

Very much overkill but why not be comfy I always say.

Last deer season I passed a deer stand that was more like a tree fort... was huge with a deck to walk around the entire 3 trees it was built on and to top it off it had a lazy boy up it... this was in the middle of heavy bush a very far distance away from the nearest road and you could not get an atv to it due to the terrain. The thought of the work involved in just getting that lazy boy there let alone building the "tree fort" was mind boggling.

After seeing yours, you win :D Enjoy and thanks for sharing.
 
so did you need a permit, we have a box stand built but not covered all the way up, put sliding plexie all around and feeder about 35 yards away, deer avoid it like tge plague and moved there trails more in the bush,its been up for 6 years now and very rarely dies a hunter take a deer out of it
 
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