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Here's a few that we have. I would much prefer to buy over build. The Sportsman Condo is the best bang for the buck. When I have built, I find out that it costs me more than originally expected and doesn't last as long. The only caveat to buying is the Muddy blind. While it is well-insulated, it leaks and the heat has warped the insulated walls. I would never buy another Muddy. By the time you put it up (2 days), your left with a situation of a lot of work for a warranty claim.

Cool blinds and some great ideas. Thanks to all for sharing.

The above are nice blinds but none are accessable To a disabled hunter, no matter the size of the blind if your hunting partner can't get in it, it's of no use to you or them, read the O.P.

Rio7

Fogger's are your friend. Quite portable, handy and will do the trick in a couple of hours. Go out the day before and throw it in. It's a lot better for them to be under your feet than over your head.

A Yellow Jacket can scramble faster than an F-16.

Bought this back in 2005. It survived hurricane Ike & Harvey. It is beat up a bit from Ike. Had it home during the storm. I looked out the window and it was rolling around the yard like a pinball. None the worse for wear. It is still my handgun blind and I really enjoy it. It is currently tied to a big Oak at thew lease. Weighs 83 lbs.

https://www.blynd.com/deer-hunting-blinds/ground-blinds

So can the Red MFer’s

We have 3 homemade plywood blinds with metal roofs on our 125 acres. For windows we used Pella sliding basement windows and they are built on platforms from 6-12’ off the ground using treated 6x6 posts. Insulation is 1” foam board and heated with Buddy propane heaters. Smallest is 5’x5’ and biggest is 6’x8’. Here during Central NYS late November-December deer season they are like five star accommodations.

I like to build stuff. So, I'd build them. The pre-built, plastic ones don't turn my crack for what they cost. However, those I think you can move around a lot easier than than a site built blind.

One thing that I've seen in WI and MN lately is a platform with a pop-up blind on them. That's something you could consider as well.

We use Mr. Buddy heaters in almost all our pop-up blinds in WI and they work pretty well.

Come on Dude...I'm fat but I can get in a stand.

What do you need foam board insulation for? Those cold mornings when it gets down to 35*F?

My hunting buddy's wife liked to go with him at times and was big pregnant one fall. She couldn't make the big strides between the rungs of our homemade ladder (floor was 5' off the ground). He showed back up with a set of fiberglass swimming pool steps.

It gets down to 34 sometimes. I built that, sold to son in law. He put the foam in there, don’t know why either. I recently bought it back. He painted it that ugly chocolate color.

Always build our own since we hunt mostly open ground and canyons to accommodate a few grandkids now and then..keeps the wind off so they can hang out longer with grand paw..

I was driving through Eastern, NC ( Hyde and Pitt counties ) I was looking to photograph old wood tobacco drying houses. In a few fields I noticed camo painted porti-potties like you see on construction sites. They were along the timber edges of bean or corn fields. Stopped in a diner and asked about them and got a good laugh and the ‘ you’re not from around here ‘ talk. Anyway they were deer and bear blinds. Farmers bought old ones steam cleaned them out and cut shooting slits in the sides. I thought it was a clever and probably cheap. I was told some were spra foam insulated mostly for noise. Food for thought
Rick

Lordy,Lordy, I grew up working in & around those old flue curing tobacco barns. That hard work made the rest of my life a breeze !!

Old Woody I for the life of me cant imagine working inside one of those tobacco sheds in the NC heat. You know the Japanese had similar contraptions in WWII for prisoners and I read where a lot guys died in them especially Aussies caught in the Philippines. I lived in Tarboro, NC for a year and had a house in Belhaven, NC and the Summer heat was ferocious. Did you actually work the field priming tobacco with those ugly tobacco worms. You must be tougher than a hard boiled owl

Rick

I "was" pretty tough !! I'm old & tired now & "I'm not as tough as I once was". Later when in the Air Force, in the New Mexico sun working inside B-52's on the Flight Line in boiling heat other guys said "I'm dying", I'd say nope, nor yet, this won't kill you. The Tobacco fields might, but they are hotter !!! Oh, the Tobacco worms won't hurt you, & they make outstanding Bass & Catfish bait !!

Paid $150 for mine at the local poop truck yard. Built a new skid that wasn’t soaked in that overpowering deodorant. It hunts great.

Ah ha so you’re the guy

My granddaughter grew up, miss those days!