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Gonna hunt in style this coming deer season
Got a deal that I couldn’t refuse on a dealer demo Redneck Buck Palace Platinum 6’x6’ box blind with a 10’ stand:
https://redneckblinds.com/products/buck-palace-360?variant=40473237699
After years of freezing my gibblies off in the cutting Midwest winds, I decided that I needed to do it better on my own land. The demo I bought has the standard noise abatement foam, cushioned flooring and drink/accessory console, along with the optional blackout curtains, gun holder and bow holder.
Gonna stick a Mr. Heater in there and enjoy every minute of a sub-zero muzzleloader hunt instead of laying on the icy ground for once.
https://redneckblinds.com/products/buck-palace-360?variant=40473237699
After years of freezing my gibblies off in the cutting Midwest winds, I decided that I needed to do it better on my own land. The demo I bought has the standard noise abatement foam, cushioned flooring and drink/accessory console, along with the optional blackout curtains, gun holder and bow holder.
Gonna stick a Mr. Heater in there and enjoy every minute of a sub-zero muzzleloader hunt instead of laying on the icy ground for once.
Accuracy: because white space between bullet holes drives me insane.
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"The Un-Tactical"
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
Some sort of swivel chair is definitely in the works, too.
Reminds me of those hard core, no impact backpackers that pack out their poop...really!
You would think working inside a fiberglass blind would require extreme care to avoid minor sounds escaping it, but it was dead as a doornail in there.
Cadillac hunting shack !
The cold alone can be vicious out here. I’ll never forget going out for my first rifle season in Nebraska in a single set of thermals thinking I would be alright. Yeah right...I barely made it past 8AM, and that was in calm conditions.
Add in a wind that can easily hit 50 mph and it can be downright brutal. For years, I used deer hides on the ground and natural, grass windbreaks to try and mitigate the blustery conditions, but it gets old after a while.
This new setup will hopefully spare a lot of the misery that comes with a hard winter out here.
The company I worked for in La. had 3 deer lease properties, and being a sheet metal fabrication company, we filled them up with really nice custom-made raised box stands. Wind, rain, cold, noise, and even movement pretty much ceased to be factors in our deer hunting.
And they pretty much ruined me for hunting on the hoof or sitting on the ground in less than ideal conditions. By far, my best hunting successes happened in one of those stands, but in a way, I wish I'd never sat in one.
Mike
N454casull
She’s up!
Got the base from the dealer on Friday, built/attached it to the trailer on Saturday, and (with my tenant’s generous offer to use his skid steer) got the box mounted on the trailer base today.
I ended up switching from a fixed 10’ stand to a 5’ trailer base. It took a little ingenuity and some lumber to overcome a slightly short bed length, but it works. With the trailer and the stand mated, the bottom of the box sits 7’9” and gives an excellent view into 3 different ag fields and a meadow on a hill above the north alfalfa field.
They’re hard to see in the pic, but I added 1/16” galvanized wire guylines staked with rebar spikes. They are tied to the center anchor hook on the high part of the stand to stabilize the short sides against the brutal Midwest winds. My buddy welded removable jack stands to the front and back of the trailer bed to act as levelers and add even more support. The whole rig is rock solid and ready for deer season!
Add in a window sandbag or shooting sticks and it’s gonna be a true experience to hunt from up in there.