Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire What’s the big deal with these heaters

COLEMAN SPORTCAT catalytic heaters??
I keep 1 in every stand for the rare days it’s cold here in south Texas and was looking to buy a few more but @@@@ these things are like gold!!
I know I paid maybe 25 bucks for these things and now absolutely no place has them online
Google keeps sending me to the eBay and they are 149.00

These things rare or illegal now or what??

If they are getting that much for them I’m gonna go roundup the few dozen I have and sell them!

saw several of the colemans on ebay way less than a hundred.

I’m gonna go back and look again when I get better service or can get connected to the WiFi off the drilling rig across the pasture.

I was just shocked at the prices. These things aren’t even that good

And that link to the one on amazon isn’t no where close to what this one is
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/99?loc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fp%2F66786877%3Fiid%3D163342182127

Here is what it isw

the Little Buddy heater puts out 3800 BTU and costs well under $100. Made by Mr Heater.

I have one of those. It makes heat in an ice fishing hut.

The Buddy Heater is a bit larger but puts out more heat than the Little Buddy and costs the same. It also has 2 heat settings.
I use the larger Big Buddy to heat my 23' camp trailer. It'll keep it warm down to near zero.

I’ve got the buddy heaters in the 2 man stands. They are good.

How to I post a picture I can show y’all what I got here

I have one in a 4X6 shooting house, and it works so good that I have to turn it off sometimes, as it gets too warm.

Thing is too loud too.

Nothing needed today right now in the stand. Its a balmy 50 f in the tree im in right now.

last stand i built had 2x4 walls and ceiling with insulation and double pane window like in a home. didn't take much to warm it up.

Especially when the low is in the mid-40’s.

how soon did the mojados move in

I hate that 40 degree weather. Brother gets pissed when i sling that vienna sausage slime off my fingers in his treehouse stand.

We find old fashioned wall heaters that were used in bathrooms.

They work well when needed and for a long time when hooked up to a large propane bottle.

I've used these and they are very functional.

I used a buddy in a nylon tent to keep the water jug from freezing, got down to 5. It was warm enough to sponge bathe that morning. We slept in a camper, use the tent for extra storage. Some claim the sensor in them won't work over 7000 feet, but I have used mine and nephew has his at 10500, a tent breathes more. I also have an old Black Cat, and a little bottle top thing from KMart that fits on a throwaway bottle. The advantage (or disadvantage) of the buddy is a pilot light and an O2 sensor. The cat and little one doesn't have any protection for gassing yourself.

Some of this stuff is in such demand that they can jack up prices.

The hondurans need them. They claim theyre freezing at the border.