I'm in the process of building a hunting blind big enough for my SIL and grandson to hunt together. My SIL had blind built on a trailer last year by the local high school FFA. It looks great and is big enough for the whole family but it's already falling apart. I like to build deer blinds that will last.
I built a blind in 1988 that lasted until I sold it 5 years ago (lost our lease). I made it with wheels on side, narrow enough to fit between the fender wells in my PU and could be loaded/unloaded by one person. It had 4 small sliding windows with glass panes and aluminum frames. They only cost about $15 each at Lowe's and were mounted on the outside. Me and Google can't find windows like that anywhere in the world.
I found some Banks Outdoor windows at Midway and ordered a couple to see in I like them. I don't like them because they're all plastic, mount on the inside. have round corners which will make them harder to install and they cost $50 each. I found some other deer blind windows at a deer blind manufacturer but they were way more expensive.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Used these guys for years and work well!!!
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Used these guys for years and work well!!!
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Swing Sash. The Swing Sash is an inside-mount window made with an aluminum frame and …
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That's the first place I looked when I couldn't find the small aluminum windows I wanted. I can't afford anything they sell.
Thanks! That's what I was looking for. The 24' X 11.5" windows are exactly like the windows I had (except of the price). I looked at Amazon but just didn't use the right search words and Google search really sucks..
Does it get bitter cold there? Why do you need a blind?
House trailer bathroom windows.
Turn them flat - longways.
Last i bought i wanna say $40
Does it get bitter cold there? Why do you need a CLOSE ABLE WINDOW
FIXT.
So those inside can move around, lean back in a padded office chair, work the coleman stove, fix lunch, take a nap, make love,...
Why dont you just get a camper trailer and drape it with camo like a huge gillie suit?
I just sit on a favorite log or rock up on the mountain, dark to dark. At times it gets very cold, but I treasure every day I’m able to do it.
Does it get bitter cold there? Why do you need a blind?
It can get real cold, wet and windy in Texas but I just don't want be uncomfortable at age 77. I used to tough it out when I was younger but don't see any point in it now. When was a young kid and hunted deer with my grandfather he's just find a good tree and climb up in it. Then I'd climb up and we'd sit on a limb for hours. I have no memory of being cold or hot when was young.
Does it get bitter cold there? Why do you need a blind?
It can get real cold, wet and windy in Texas but I just don't want want be uncomfortable at age 77. I used to tough it out when I was younger but don't see any point in it now. When was a young kid and hunted deer with my grandfather he's just find a good tree and climb up in it. Then I'd climb up and we'd sit on a limb for hours. I have no memory of being cold or hot when was young.
Same here. I've sat on a limb till my azz was so numb that I couldn't feel it. Had so many clothes on trying to stay warm, that I couldn't move. Been so wet that I probably could have squeezed several gallons of water out of my hide. Had to back then if I wanted a shot at a deer. Don't have to now, and I fully enjoy my hunting blind........6 foot by 6 foot, on a wagon, insulated, heated, and my old office chair in there. I can move it where I want it, and the deer don't care, as we killed 4 nice bucks out of it last year. If they're using the other side of the farm, then I'll go sit in my 4 X 6 house that's sitting up 10 foot high. It's a nice comfortable place too.
As for windows, I made my own out of plexiglass. Made them to slide, and they work great.
I make mine fold up and in. I have a 6”x16 piece of glass siliconed In place in the middle of each window.
I used to do work for lady, she told me her dad, when he hunted at Ft Campbell, would carry a six foot aluminum step ladder a little ways into the treeline, enough to either sit on top off it or get himself up to a good limb. Guess he had a skinny old man ass.
I used to do work for lady, she told me her dad, when he hunted at Ft Campbell, would carry a six foot aluminum step ladder a little ways into the treeline, enough to either sit on top off it or get himself up to a good limb. Guess he had a skinny old man ass.
I did that as a teenager, I like sitting in an office chair now, cause I have an old man’s ass!!
Does it get bitter cold there? Why do you need a blind?
It can get real cold, wet and windy in Texas but I just don't want want be uncomfortable at age 77. I used to tough it out when I was younger but don't see any point in it now. When was a young kid and hunted deer with my grandfather he's just find a good tree and climb up in it. Then I'd climb up and we'd sit on a limb for hours. I have no memory of being cold or hot when was young.
Same here. I've sat on a limb till my azz was so numb that I couldn't feel it. Had so many clothes on trying to stay warm, that I couldn't move. Been so wet that I probably could have squeezed several gallons of water out of my hide. Had to back then if I wanted a shot at a deer. Don't have to now, and I fully enjoy my hunting blind........6 foot by 6 foot, on a wagon, insulated, heated, and my old office chair in there. I can move it where I want it, and the deer don't care, as we killed 4 nice bucks out of it last year. If they're using the other side of the farm, then I'll go sit in my 4 X 6 house that's sitting up 10 foot high. It's a nice comfortable place too.
As for windows, I made my own out of plexiglass. Made them to slide, and they work great.
I have built about three, but not for cold or wind. Only just something with a roof to hunt during the rain.
Problem with those, 2 spots we burned out after only a couple of hunts. Deer either shifted trails to/from natural food sources or busted me, then it would be a nothing spot.
I think I have had some other people hunting my blind while at was at that thing called a JOB. Find candy wrappers and cig butts. Putting extra burnout time and conditioning to the deer to avoid that spot altogether.
I used to do work for lady, she told me her dad, when he hunted at Ft Campbell, would carry a six foot aluminum step ladder a little ways into the treeline, enough to either sit on top off it or get himself up to a good limb. Guess he had a skinny old man ass.
I did that as a teenager, I like sitting in an office chair now, cause I have an old man’s ass!!
You got that right. Those oak tree limbs are a lot harder than they were 50 years ago.
I used to do work for lady, she told me her dad, when he hunted at Ft Campbell, would carry a six foot aluminum step ladder a little ways into the treeline, enough to either sit on top off it or get himself up to a good limb. Guess he had a skinny old man ass.
I did that as a teenager, I like sitting in an office chair now, cause I have an old man’s ass!!
You got that right. Those oak tree limbs are a lot harder than they were 50 years ago.
Yep, don’t like walking barefoot anymore either!
Does it get bitter cold there? Why do you need a blind?
It can get real cold, wet and windy in Texas but I just don't want want be uncomfortable at age 77. I used to tough it out when I was younger but don't see any point in it now. When was a young kid and hunted deer with my grandfather he's just find a good tree and climb up in it. Then I'd climb up and we'd sit on a limb for hours. I have no memory of being cold or hot when was young.
Same here. I've sat on a limb till my azz was so numb that I couldn't feel it. Had so many clothes on trying to stay warm, that I couldn't move. Been so wet that I probably could have squeezed several gallons of water out of my hide. Had to back then if I wanted a shot at a deer. Don't have to now, and I fully enjoy my hunting blind........6 foot by 6 foot, on a wagon, insulated, heated, and my old office chair in there. I can move it where I want it, and the deer don't care, as we killed 4 nice bucks out of it last year. If they're using the other side of the farm, then I'll go sit in my 4 X 6 house that's sitting up 10 foot high. It's a nice comfortable place too.
As for windows, I made my own out of plexiglass. Made them to slide, and they work great.
I have built about three, but not for cold or wind. Only just something with a roof to hunt during the rain.
Problem with those, 2 spots we burned out after only a couple of hunts. Deer either shifted trails to/from natural food sources or busted me, then it would be a nothing spot.
I think I have had some other people hunting my blind while at was at that thing called a JOB. Find candy wrappers and cig butts. Putting extra burnout time and conditioning to the deer to avoid that spot altogether.
Id be placing some trail cams, Slum one watching the blind and another placed farther away watching the first.
I knew who it was
I didn’t say anything and decided to put a nicer chair in there and then spray Deer-A-Way all around the whole area for a couple hundred yards out all directions.
Having lived on and hunted my place all my life, and I'm 70, I know where the deer have to cross to get from point A to point B. They are pretty much forced to use a narrow corridor of land in order to travel between the bedding areas and the food sources. In the rut, the bucks use this corridor to check out the doe groups. I have placed my shooting houses where I can cover these areas, with the majority of the shots being under 200 yards. I do have opportunities for shots up to 400 yards, and I regularly practice at that distance. Sitting in my shooting house beats the snot out of any other stand I've ever used.
I’ll be 70 years old next week. When the day comes that I’m not able to still hunt or just take a seat somewhere in the open woods, I’m done. Sitting in a shooting house is not real hunting to me.
I use old plexiglass golf cart windshields and cut the track out of a 2x2 using a dado blade. We hunt a lot of open spaces and cut lines, you need a window to block the north wind. My best stand has windows that slide up and a lazy boy about 6' away from my fireplace. I keep a rifle on my wood stack on the back porch sighted in for the feeder at 350.
I looked at travel trailer window but didn't think about house trailer windows. Where did you buy them for $40?
I make mine fold up and in. I have a 6”x16 piece of glass siliconed In place in the middle of each window.
I've made them that way but it's hard to keep the inside of the stand dry. I've also put them on the outside but I got busted by the deer too many times when I opened one of them.
I looked at travel trailer window but didn't think about house trailer windows. Where did you buy then for $40?
They have prolly gone up.
That was Lowe’s about 10 years ago.
Lowe’s website isn’t cooperating for me to check.
Lowe's doesn't have them anymore but I should be able to find some at a house trailer parts supplier.
Just guessing,
But it’s like 14”x 24”
I’m left handed, so i put the open side on the left.
Deer View Windows like Rockinbbar said. You wont be sorry.
Jim
Deer View Windows like Rockinbbar said. You wont be sorry.
Jim
Neither here nor there....
Funny story about deerview.
Buddy ordered some about 5 years ago.
4.
Charged him. Took several months to ship.
To the point he thought he got ripped off.
Fast forward a year or 2.
Me and him was at a sportsman show.
Deerview has a booth there.
He asks them how fast they ship.
“Next day...”
He says I’m so and so. Remember when i ordered and y’all didn’t ship for a couple months.
Silence...............................
Well I imagine plexiglass is in short supply this year.
If you subscribe to the tape over the end of the barrel while stalking approach, the why not mount a role of plastic wrap over the window cut-out?
Shoot thru and roll a fresh piece down.
Commercial restaurant supply roles are 2.5-3ft.
Deerview are fine. I’ve dealt with them twice. Once went pretty fast, another time, took a few weeks. Half the deer hunters in Texas sre building blinds right now, to put up Labor Day weekend, so they’ll be ready come opening in November. Now is not a good time to expect “quick shipment” on supplies such as these.
For the guys who want to bitsch and rag on “Texas deer hunting”, well, congratulations. You can hunt your public spot in another state, with 30 other guys, dressed in blaze orange, for your 2 week deer season that’s regulated more than a pharmaceutical production facility, praying you don’t get shot by some idiot. We can sit under a tree when we archery hunt, turkey hunt, or squirrel hunt.
No, it’s not like elk hunting out west, but it’s what we got and what we do, and if you don’t like it, feel free to take the dick-measuring contest over to the optics forum et al and brag about your manhood and extravagant financial expenditures at length.
Deer View Windows like Rockinbbar said. You wont be sorry.
Jim
They look great and are exactly like the windows I paid $15 for at Lowe's a few years ago. The small Deer View windows I want will cost about $100 each with tax and shipping.
Deer View Windows like Rockinbbar said. You wont be sorry.
Jim
They look great and are exactly like the windows I paid $15 for at Lowe's a few years ago. The small Deer View windows I want will cost about $100 each with tax and shipping.
Ouch. I bought 12” x 36” windows from them(sets of 4) for about $160ish delivered.
Deerview are fine. I’ve dealt with them twice. Once went pretty fast, another time, took a few weeks. Half the deer hunters in Texas sre building blinds right now, to put up Labor Day weekend, so they’ll be ready come opening in November. Now is not a good time to expect “quick shipment” on supplies such as these.
For the guys who want to bitsch and rag on “Texas deer hunting”, well, congratulations. You can hunt your public spot in another state, with 30 other guys, dressed in blaze orange, for your 2 week deer season that’s regulated more than a pharmaceutical production facility, praying you don’t get shot by some idiot. We can sit under a tree when we archery hunt, turkey hunt, or squirrel hunt.
No, it’s not like elk hunting out west, but it’s what we got and what we do, and if you don’t like it, feel free to take the dick-measuring contest over to the optics forum et al and brag about your manhood and extravagant financial expenditures at length.
I enjoy slipping around still hunting after a rain with my pistol deer hunting. But I'd much rather sit in one of our 20+ box stands over looking feeders and green fields. I went to Wisconsin for opening day of rifle season.....once. I counted over 150 shots seen 20+ hunters and killed a couple of bucks in a thick tamarack swamp, every single hunter walked around the swamp I was sitting in. I called my cousins and asked them to please bring me some more orange. I know wearing a orange vest doesn't work because a Yankee from Pennsylvania opened fired on a group of elk that was coming straight to me. I did end up killing two young 5 X 5's out of the herd and beat the Yankees azz when he said he saw me in his scope before he started shooting. Wallace guide service in Colburn Colorado almost got me killed,
I like to hunt in box stands, with a comfortable reclining chair (for naps), windows you can close, binoculars, rangefinder, propane heater, drinks, snacks and big plastic jug to pee in. I'll sit in a box stand all day sometimes during the rut. My favorite way to hunt though when the weathers not too bad is to scout around for some fresh deer tracks. I look for BIG tracks and if they're the only tracks that's better. The next day I'll set up my 3 legged tripod with a swivel seat downwind at least 100 yds, from the tracks and hunt there for a few days. My 2nd favorite way is to find good spot and put a folding back in the brush a little downwind from that spot and hunt with my crossbow. I've had deer walk right by me many times.
I bought a couple of dozen from them a few years back and the most expensive was under $50.00 with the average window being less than $30.00. This was for hinged, clear, windows. Their prices are on their website under products. Looks like there is some waiting time involved now. But, they are good windows. I picked them up myself because their shipping was high. I was going to be in the area in a few weeks and they gladly held them.
Jim
I decided to make one more web search before ordered 2 more plexiglass windows and found theses windows. They are just like I the aluminum widows I had before so I ordered 2 of them. I never thought to search for shed windows.
https://www.amazon.com/Window-White...mp;psc=1&refRID=D7G44YWRQHP2MYCN7T4S
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