Picked these blinds up last week.
We won’t be cold this year during the gun season/muzzle loader season!!!
We are putting them up with 4x4x14’s and 2×4 X braces next weekend. Also bought the plexiglass window kits.
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It’s nice to get inside those later weeks of the year.
I don’t know if we’re getting older or if winter is getting tougher. But I sure do enjoy keeping warm and dry
Three of us were able to get these blinds up in the air a few weeks ago. It was a little hairy getting them up without access to a tractor(4 wheeler/winch).
Two of them are over looking very secluded brassica/rape food plots and the other one is just off a clover field.
Just need to add office chairs and heaters!
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Looks great!
What kind of blinds are those? Would you mind telling what you paid for them?
With the price of lumber and the time involved, I think I’m in the same place with blinds as I as with stands 10 years ago. I found out with stands I could buy metal ones for less than I was paying to build treated wood ones.
Grouse
Not sure what brand those are but my buddy bought a few similar ones last year and I thought he paid around $1000/piece. I just built my wood stand for around $500. The benefit to the plastic stand is that they are already built.
DT
I found a guy out in Buffalo, MN who made roto molded blinds like this a few years back. He had some seconds on hand that were in the $650.00 range if I recall correctly. I liked them however I couldn’t stand up in them and they were barely big enough to draw a bow in them. Great gun blinds.
Yeah, maybe we’re still in the place where the cost advantage is still tipped toward building your own. I priced out some tower blinds about 5 years ago and the finished cost would have been just about $2000 each with everything needed. Just wondering if the situation had changed.
About 10 years ago, I was pricing out lumber for replacing a couple of permanent tree stands we had that were in bad shape. I always use treated lumber and I like big stands that give plenty of room to move if it becomes necessary. I also build full rails for safety and to serve as a rest. I suddenly realized that what I was adding up in lumber costs was within spitting distance of what I could buy a decent double ladder stand for. Yes, the steel ladder stand was still more, but then again it lasts almost forever compared to a wood stand that’s in need of repair or outright replacement every 7-10 years.
Just wondering if we were close to the point where the pre-fab blinds are in the same place.
Grouse
I think we are getting very close. My buddy got one last year that was really nice, again a tad small for bow, but would work. 360 degree shooting. He had to manufacture a base(which he mounted on a car trailer). He now has a very mobile blind he can move anywhere on his 3000 acre property he wants. This is SD prairie of course. Anyway, I’m thinking he was in the $1400.00 range delivered to central SD.
Wow, $1400-$2000 EEK, I think I will keep an eye out for more wood I can reclaim. Actually I have just about enough left for one more 
I should be into my built stand for around $500. The upside to the plastic stands is they can be moved around. I could move mine I quess but would require a tractor with a bucket or a forklift.
DT
I’m going to take a look at these and use them for ice fishing too. Whats nice is they can be taken apart and moved. They are made a few miles from where I live and can save the shipping.
http://www.portable-huntingblinds.com/
Bought my blind tonight the owner stopped on his way home from a sports show. Really nice portable blind for under $660. going to use it for ice fishing to.
Hey Grouse,
Sorry for the late response. Been too busy fishin!
Here is where I bought the blinds:
http://rmioutdoors.com/index.cfm/pageid/29
They sold them to me for $550 each, plus $80 for each window kit(could probably design your own for a lot cheaper but I didn’t have the time to deal with it).
With the 4×4’s and 2×4’s it was around $800 per blind. These should hopefully last 10 years or more.
If you wanted to build one out of all treated lumber, it would be in the 450-650 range anyway, and I figure the plastic should last longer and looks better(after painted).
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