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We have a walltentshop 14x16 and it’s a quality item. Very well thought out tie offs and stitching.

They are 30min from here and been seeing a them during seasons last 3-4 years. Quality looking for sure. Always leaned towards Davis as several friends have them and rant and rave about awesome CS and quality. But think I'll be keeping this purchase local.

What options/coating did you get?

Thanks
Chuck

Get yourself a rain fly and an awning for the front.
We have a Davis but lots of good wall tent companies, staying local seems like a great idea.

Basic stuff only. Doors at both ends, extended fly for a porch, "normal" cotton tent material. I don't recall specifying many options. It came with a crap-ton of easily worked rope and the wood tightening jogs. Also a bunch of stamped stakes that work fine for most spots. I've added long rebar stakes for fly corners. Frame construction instructions were easily followed and the frame fit great when cut as instructed.

I've had my Beckel 12x14 with 5' walls for over thirty years. A little rough around the edges but still going strong.

I bought the davis as big as they made about 8 years ago. Not sure if they still do but after the hunting season they would have a monthly special if so keep an eye on it, I really like my Davis tent paired with a Three dog stove perfect match.
Both top notch.
I bought the frame kit and cut my own pipes easy as could be.

My first canvas was magnum wall tent. Bought it direct before they started selling at sportsman’s guide.
I think it was 3rd year where it rotted out. Fuc* them!

Went with Davis and been happy for 9 years now.
My 16x20 will sleep 6 guys comfortably.
2 guys to set it up. Too big for one guy t set up. and too big for only 2 guys to sleep in, unless you set it up as dining as well. IMO 3-4 guys minimum so every one can pitch in with fire wood and what not.
Mine also has a window in the back as deer season can be warm and helps to get the air flow.
Wish I would have got an awning to possibly cook under. Unless you have a cook tent.

Just slept in beckel? last week. It wasn’t bad but I like my davis set up

I have had a 14x16 Davis for over a decade that I have been very happy with.
Reliable Tent and Tipi in Billings,MT also makes a great tent and they provide great service. They use a bit heavier canvas than Davis or Beckel. Pretty bomb proof and well built IMO. Perhaps better than Davis.They have actually repaired my Davis after it got damaged in a windstorm and provided excellent service. If buying a new tent I would look long and hard at them.

I bought a 14X16 internal frame tent from Reliable Tent back in the mid 90's. Still going strong. Used it this past 8 days in high winds and 10 inches of snow. It performed great.
I'd buy another Reliable.

I went with the tradtional pole set up because the longest pole in an internal frame wouldn't fit in my (psuedo) truck bed. I've not been disappointed and don't find it to hard at all to set up by myself.

Just about every state has a local tent & awning company capable of quality products. A plastic tarp on top facilitates snow sliding off. Thoroughly dry before storage and it should last for generations.

Ours is a 1982 product.

Those thin plastic tarps will drive you nuts with any sort of wind.
I have used them for years, but for next year I am going to buy one of the HD vinyl ones Davis tent sells. Not cheap,but I think it will be worth it.

Get a billboard tarp and use it. Tough, does not sound like the cheap ones in the wind. heavy duty. I use one for the floor as well.

phluck phloors....

Where does one source one of those?

Kind of nice when it's muddy as heck or snowy.
I use the vinyl floor that my tent was sold with and a piece of grass carpet on top of that.

Yeah, If you like cleaning mud off the floor or taking your boots off outside. It's only muddy in the tent till you burn the stove a while. I'll take a little carpet scrap next to my cot, over a floor anytime. I go to hunt, not housekeep......

Source on Internet for used billboard tarps.

On the tarp and wind: Tightly run some line across the tent/tarp 6 or 7 times, and there's never a sound or tear. Does take a significant length of line though. Also, the corners are securely bound down with an invention of my own doing. Been in some strong winds and never an issue with that tarp having about 15 years to its credit.

Typically, a non-issue if erected in dense cover, but in unsheltered locations like that pictured the tarp is always bound down.

Not much for floors either. No issues with peanut shells or spilled liquids.

About 45 days of use this season and just folded and boxed up for the winter today.

We use tarps fairly often. We like to use a section of bungee cord at the stake end of the guy out ropes. It provides tension to minimize rattle and “give” which helps avoid stakes pulling out in gusts. Loose slack is not your friend.