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Have pitched the idea around for a bit, I have tree stands and ground blinds, but wanted to build an elevated tower stand for deer season, and do some improvements to an old boys bear blind that he said I could have / use. The bear blind we spent a weekend camping at it as it was a few hours away. The deer tower has taken a few days so far and I have about 1.5 days work left to finish it up. Have less than $800 bucks into both of them so far. Anyways, thought I would take some pictures and share.




How the bear blind started





I doctored up the bait itself. I added a post that has 1 foot increments and I will have a pail 6 feet up, so hopefully we can see how tall a bear is before we decide if its for us. I also made a bit of a fence to direct them directly into a shooting lane in order to feed




The Deer tower is sitting 13 ft up, is 7 X 7 with 8 ft walls. Only reason its so big is I didn't feel like hauling a bunch of 2 ft pieces of 2X4 away



summer student was engaged in " other duties as assigned" in helping me with this





Bit more work to do but we have the lions share out of the way. The deer tower is on edge of an alfalfa field that has 5 game trails converging within 15 yds of it. Hope to give the boy some good chances at an archery buck. Anyways, feed back welcome, thanks for looking.
 
Looks sweet. I'm sure you took this into account but I've seen two tower blinds fall over. One had the base just sitting on the ground using weight on the bottom to keep it from falling over. A quad is no match for a Manitoba wind. The other had the posts dug one foot into the ground. This, in my experience, is not a good way of going about it. I haven't built one yet but my years in carpentry have taught me that building to the minimum is not normally a prudent thing.
 
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Looks sweet. I'm sure you took this into account but I've seen two tower blinds fall over. One had the base just sitting on the ground using weight on the bottom to keep it from falling over. A quad is no match for a Manitoba wind. The other had the posts dug one foot into the ground. This, in my experience, is not a good way of going about it. I haven't built one yet but my years in carpentry have taught me that building to the minimum is not normally a prudent thing.
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Yup. My blind on 12 foot 4x4s fell over. We pushed her back up, increased the size of the box, then put 10 foot 4x4s across the base to widen the footprint, and went to my local grain bin dealer and bought 4 bin anchors. Twist those bastards into the ground, as they aren't expensive, and nothing's pulling them out. I used them at the ends of the 10 foot base 4x4s.
 
you have to climb a ladder..!!! What no elevator..!! Don't see any rough in for plumbing and heating either. Seriously, carpet the floor and silicone spray the window runners so everything is dead silent. Move or drop something on that plywood floor without carpet and deer will hear it for miles. Unnatural sound. Looks good thus far though, I would also suggest running guy wires out for stability in the wind. As previously mentioned you need a larger footprint for stability in adverse situations.
 
Thanks guys, The posts are dug in 4 feet deep and tamped, may consider additional anchoring as well. I have two more post to install to complete the ladder / stairs. I will probably insulate and board it, and there will definitely be something going down on floor to absorb any sound. Son is already planning over night camp outs in it haha
 
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