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I've been using a Sims folding stove in my 12x14 with no complaints. As 1minute said, cooking and a lantern and it gets warm enough to open a door flap.

Have the three dog stove with water heater in Davis biggest tent works perfect.

I looked on their website today https://fourdog.com and all they have listed are the titanium stoves. Tried calling them and never got an answer. Wonder what's up?

1minute has the right idea. Good advice!

A question from a non-wall tenter...

Since you arer driving/trucking in to the campsite area (ability to carry supplies "easily"), is kerosene heater an option for a wall tent?

I have a heavy(50+ pounds) stove and wish I had got something that weighed less and was collapsible.
This place has a few worth looking at:
https://www.walltentshop.com/collections/lightweight-camping-stoves

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Anything will work, but if one wants to seriously crank things up, it should be vented to the outside. If flame is involved, one always wants a vented unit. Same with propane.

Many years back 3 guys seriously tightened down the skirts, ridgepole holes, and doors of their wall tent, and shut their propane unit down for the night. Two were using cots, and the third rolled out on a pad on the floor. AM the first two got up feeling like crap and rushed out to do an in the dark climb to peek over rock figuring their partner was sleeping in. With propane being heavier than air, the third guy never woke up. Seems the burner was off but the unit was still leaking gas. Cookie and I will sometimes use propane to knock the chill off if bunking in small tents. Usually just a 5-minute run though and we shut off both the heater and propane tank before tucking in.

They may work okay but I've been around enough of them in other peoples homes that it wouldn't be something I'd use. They always give me a headache. A wood stove never has.

Like coal, I can't imagine Elk are fond of the Kerosene smell

Like everything else you have to use your brain a bit and not camp near where the elk are.

Do elk get affected / notice wood stove smoke?

You bring the smell with you...

Which matters not. You have to play the wind regardless.

Wood, kerosene, coal, whatever. What elk smell and avoid is MAN. If you set up camp in the middle of your hunting area, they'll smell YOU and avoid YOU. Your stove won't bother them because they'll be gone before you get it set up.

All our camps were set up in the middle of our hunting area, for years. We all smelled like bacon , eggs and coffee, every day. The horses we rode must have thrown the elk off their game!

Exactly.

This doesn't address the smoke / smell issue. I found this link and thought it was an interesting way to heat a tent. Who knows? It may come in handy as a back up plan. All you need is some piping. If you are driving in to your campsite, the pipes neither weigh much, nor take up much room.

FWIW. Just thought it was interesting and thought I'd share it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QeHGDr81XwM

Good video. Clever guy.

Afternoon, some company (name)??? Make a propane stove or burner that goes outside the tent and has a blower on it that blows the heat into the tent through two 4" hoses. Like a dryer vent hose, won't use oxygen from tent or leak propane inside. Can't cook on it though. I think it's the same company that makes the instant hot shower deal. Never seen the heater but one camp had the shower deal, really great after a long day. I'm going to buy the shower deal, maybe the heater but would like to see how it worked first. I'm sure camping with the better half and having the shower along would work wonders for the relationship. Nothing like the heat from wood though!!! I wonder if you had a tarp out in front for a kitchen if you could rig up an oven sort of deal with a 12 volt fan and dryer hose to blow in the hot air from it??? Hmm. If your interested in the shower deal buy the double burner, the single one doesn't get hot enough. Bill. 👣🐾👣🐾🇨🇦

we have always just used a 55 gallon barrel stove, we made an expanded metal top for it to heat bath water in, Vogelzang is the kit we used. We heat an army GP medium tent, coldest so far has been 2 degrees.