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I like them 4 foot by 4 foot by 7 foot high. I like to be able to look out all 4 sides without moving my chair. I can see 3 sides turning my head, turn chair 1/4 turn to see the other
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Mine are 6x6 except one is 4x6 74" tall. Our family has little people getting old enough to go. They will be able to with these. Those that do go will most likely be hunters. Have a great day. Jim
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Mine's 6X4 because, when I built it there was NOTHING on the property, No power, water, nothing, Just woods and a power line. My theory was (and is) in a pinch I could sleep/camp in it. I'm 6 feet even, so going diagonal, I can lay down in it and it'll keep me out of the weather should the need arise.
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Mine are 6x6 except one is 4x6 74" tall. Our family has little people getting old enough to go. They will be able to with these. Those that do go will most likely be hunters. Have a great day. Jim This x 100. Lots of fun to take a newbie along sometimes. 5x5 ft will get it done nicely. Room for a bit of gear and a small heater is nice. It can get cold up here. When alone, I often just sit at the base of a tree, but I admit a blind is great when the weather is nasty.
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I like a 6 or 7 foot x 4 foot. Easy to stretch out in a pinch and small enough to heat. Not enough leg room or swivel room in anything smaller. Some of them at our hunt club are smaller, but I don’t use them. I’ll get in one of my ladder stands or ground blind instead.
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I built two that are 4x6 so that two could sit in them. Usually do not have two adults in them but have and adult that is supervising a kid.
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I’ve never had one an admittedly it would be harder to hunt but lately I’ve been thinking of an 8x8. I’d use it as my shelter and everything spend the entire time in the blind.
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The size of a Chevrolet 2500HD crew cab !!
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The last few years I have sat in a 5x5 ground blind overlooking an ag field along a creek. There have been several deer, and coyotes killed from that blind. Generally the blind is set up from late August till January. Have had some of the younger deer actually bump the tie down cords. Last year in December rifle season a buck was killed about 20 yards from the blind and in Sept. muzzleloader season a doe about 30 yards out. I have had 2 adults and a 7 yr old and that gets a little tight. I set up 1 swivel chair and keep a bag chair in the corner for a 2nd person.
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4’x5’x6’ tall is perfect for one or two people!
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I build them 4x4. I like a full size door and talll enough to stand up in and to put a shelf in up above the windows. Takes less material to build and like op said easy to see out and shoot out of all the windows.
We have several larger boxes on our place and they all turn into shelters for illegal aliens. They throw the chairs out and have fire rings built around all of them. If you put a lock on them they tear up the doors getting in them. Another reason for the 4×4 box blinds.
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I build them 4x4. I like a full size door and talll enough to stand up in and to put a shelf in up above the windows. Takes less material to build and like op said easy to see out and shoot out of all the windows.
We have several larger boxes on our place and they all turn into shelters for illegal aliens. They throw the chairs out and have fire rings built around all of them. If you put a lock on them they tear up the doors getting in them. Another reason for the 4×4 box blinds. I’m glad we don’t have them.
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4’x5’x6’ tall is perfect for one or two people! Not much larger but I find these are better. Especially for two people. Hasbeen
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Open-air is my favorite size.
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I prefer no stand at all. I mostly hunt from the ground.
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I build them 6' wide to accommodate 2 hunters sitting SxS. Usually one of the grandkids or one of my daughters. The first one I built was 6'x4', It works pretty good. But I have found that 6'x6' is much better. It gives you plenty of room for gear such as your pack and a small heater. And you can slide your chair back and be completely in the shadow with just the end of your gun barrel sticking out the window. I built one with my son in law that is 8'x8' for a family blind. You can easily hunt 2 adults and 2 kids with plenty of room for gear. There is even room enough for one of the grandkids to stretch out and take a nap. This one is 6'x4' 6'x6' This one is the family blind 8'x8'
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I like 4x4 for a one person stand. 4x6 for 2. Even bigger is better.
Only trouble ive had is hunting a big stand by yourself.. if theres likely deer on each end. (Powerline, gas line, etc )
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I like 4x4 for a one person stand. 4x6 for 2. Even bigger is better.
Only trouble ive had is hunting a big stand by yourself.. if theres likely deer on each end. (Powerline, gas line, etc ) That’s the thing I don’t like about a big stand.
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I built two that are 4x6 so that two could sit in them. Usually do not have two adults in them but have and adult that is supervising a kid. For what it is worth the ones I build are 5x6, not 4x6 as I previously posted. Getting old and memory needs time to recollect data. The 5 foot depth gives enough for a bow hunter to draw without crowding himself.
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