Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Looking to build an elevated hunting blind

I don't really know the wt per panel but they're standard size for out bldgs etc. Five of us did the work, we set up two squares of scaffolding,had a portable generator for drilling bolt holes and used the tractor bucket for assembly.Fortunately we were in a bad drought at that time.Since then we built another bout twice this size but its close to an old river road so project logistics were held to a minimum.

A couple of other points for the OP:

1. Either get plans, or some other experienced help building it. I've seen people who were actually pretty knowledgeable about building try to throw one together, and they wind up wishing they'd done things differently.

2. If it's going on a lease, or other land you don't own, then think about how you'd take it down to move it. I've had to leave leases several times because egos clashed and the landowner kicked a whole group of people off.

Have fun

I hunt brush country with a few senderos. Too many times I've gotten a glimpse of what MIGHT be a shooter buck just as he goes back into the brush. Ain't no way I know of to get out of an elevated blind quickly and quietly to follow up on him if the wind is favorable.

Also........ it doesn't take long for an older deer to associate the blind with humans. If an older doe in heat stops and looks at the blind - and they will - a sure enough trophy buck ain't gonna follow her into the open.And those aluminum window frames show up like a diamond in a goat's ass. I've never found a paint or tape that will cover them a full year.

I like tinted plexiglas cut to size and made to slide open instead of swinging up. It's cheaper as well.

But....... for women and kids to join you, a blind is just about a necessity. I'm fortunate in that my WT hunting pasture has ridges where I can place a ground blind and still have the benefit of elevation and that's where I take the Grandkids.

I've got a couple of 16' tripod stands that I move around depending on signs of a good buck using a place. I've put the oldest Grandson in them and he's killed deer each year.