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Them are bad ass!

Are those made out of pak tanks?

yep,cut the top off of one at shooting height,screw 4 2x4 inside sticking up to ceiling height screw the top back on,fill in with plastic from another tank,add windows and a door.they are fairly light weight and easy to move.

Where does one get Pak tanks?

Local Craigslist has bunches of them, but I'm not in Idaho...

It's a "Poop-n-Shoot." 1-800-257-1234. $19.95 + shipping, processing, and handling. Hole sold separately.

we have lots of factories that have them. ink plant,food plant. a friend used to bring them to me free by the trailer load.

the one on the trailer i used 3 tanks and cut it down the middle to make it wider for 2 people. they very easy to work with.big plus is they never rot.

Been there for 20 some years and the Deer think it is just normal. We call it the death trap. Although it is best to dress warm.

Sometimes you here rumblings underneath in the winter. Something is using it for shelter.










This one wondered too close one late evening.

I bought a cheap blind from Sportsman's Guide. I set it in my woods and never got a shot or seen a deer from it. Then a huge buck tore a cedar tree to shreds 10' from it at night. Tree is a good 12" diameter.
I sat my stand at a neighbors and seen at least 30 squirrels so went back for some and did not see any at all. Got a .22 and no squirrels but you will see deer.

horse1,

ROTFLMRAO.
(Fwiw, you must be from "pore folks", as in my area the "well to do" have TWO-holers & at least 3 cars jacked-up in the yard.)

yours, tex

To All,

Pardon my ignorance but what is a "pak tank"?? - I tried googleing that term & got PAGES of references to Pakistani Army main battle tanks.

yours, tex

a plastic tank that comes in a cage. can be used to hold anything liquid .factories use them and sometimes sell them or give them away when empty. they come on a metal pallet so they can be moved with a fork lift.they are usually about 250-300gallon.

Deer prolly wonder where the "someone schitt a pine tree" smell is coming from?

I hunted out of a camp that had several box blinds built on plastic pallets for shipping engines. Each had a cable at one end to drag them with an ATV if the deer changed travel habits. The shacks were made of old lumber and old metal roofing.

srwshooter,

Sounds like something that I'd like to find a few of. = I wonder if they're strong enough to use to support a boat dock and/or to float a cabin on the river???
(GOOD/heavy duty 55 gallon plastic drums have gotten "downright expensive" for as many as I need.)

yours, tex

haha

Looks like that buck is trying to see what is sheltering underneath your blind for you!

I added acoustic foam and a padded folding shooting bench

Just an inside joke and a chuckle from my youth.

Inside joke regarding the Poop-n-Shoot: 20+ yrs ago, a buddy spies a bunch of ports-potties sitting outside during the winter and muses that by merely adding windows you'd have a mighty nice dual-purpose hunting blind. We get a good laugh, and of course this gets embellished and options added over time. Adding Whiskey, beer, rum or tequila to the Poop-n-Shoot brainstorming sessions makes for the stuff of legends. I can't remember most of it, but I'm sure it's legendary. We've gotten on with life, moved on, only rarely ever mention the Poop-N-Shoot anymore. Within the last few seasons however, some of the plastic blinds that look like they could be made by Tupperware or Rubbermaid have begun showing up and the Poop-N-Shoot rhetoric has begun anew.

The chuckle from my youth is that pre-dedicated shopping channels on TV, stuff was advertised for sale during TV commercials. Stuff that wasn't available in stores was all available by calling the same phone number. 1-800-257-1234, and EVERYTHING cost $19.95 + Shipping and Handling. Ginsu knives, compilation record albums, etc, etc, etc, you name it, they had it, 1 phone number, 1 price + Shipping and Handling. And of course there was always the quickly mentioned, "XX not included".

So, I mushed together the Poop-N-Shoot and 1-800-257-1234 memories in hopes of giving other folks a chuckle too.

I'd suggest one go to our north central ice fishermen. They can get way past elaborate with their furnishings.

True but to be fair one only spends 6-8 hours in a blind. I'll spend 3-4 days at a time in my fish house. It's a small cabin I can move to where the fish are.