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Posted By: hunthard Hunting Blind Windows - 01/01/24
Building a custom stick built hunting blind looking for suggestions on a few quality windows . Please pm if you have suggestions.
Deer view is what we use. No problems.
www.deerviewwindows.com
Posted By: StrayDog Re: Hunting Blind Windows - 01/01/24
Hunting during drizzle and rain, you'll appreciate wide windows without very much height.
Posted By: BigDave39355 Re: Hunting Blind Windows - 01/01/24
I’ll go to Lowe’s / HD and get house trailer bathroom windows.

Something like 12” x 30”? IIRC.

Lay them down long ways.

( I’m LH, so i put the opening on the left..)


Used to be $40-50. Prolly $100 now. 🥵
Posted By: TwoTrax Re: Hunting Blind Windows - 01/01/24
When building my stands I build the windows frames in the size and position that I need. Then go to Lowes or similar and have them cut plexiglass to sizes I need. I buy small hinges to attach them. You have to pre drill plexiglass just a bit smaller than the screws that come with the hinges or it will break. Then use a small piece of wood to make a latch when you raise them.

Very inexpensive and quiet which helps when the deer can show up 20-30 yards from you when they pop out of the brush. I usually make my windows maybe 6-7 inches high and 30 inches long and position them so I can see while sitting down. Then I will put another maybe slightly smaller one so I can see while standing. That one I do not hinge, just drop down to the lower one for the shot.
Posted By: BigDave39355 Re: Hunting Blind Windows - 01/01/24
Sitting in one this morning…

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I put cheap stick on window tint on a patroon on the window.
Look for an old school bus. I built a blind years with those windows and it was probably one of the best blind windows I have been in mine or someone else’s.
Posted By: Angus1895 Re: Hunting Blind Windows - 01/01/24
I built one with 2x4 …….

So I am thinking deerview inside the blind and “ shutters” on the out side when it’s not being used.

Then I can store my hunting stuff in it until I use it.

So my question…..windows slide, drop down, lift up?

Very little long bow use anticipated as I got a crossbow permit.

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Posted By: hanco Re: Hunting Blind Windows - 01/01/24
I make mine like this, glass is a couple bucks a window

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I use cloth and push pins to cover up the biggest part if I have a window open. Especially on the side suns comes up or down

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Posted By: Bocajnala Re: Hunting Blind Windows - 01/01/24
Less is more. Just enough to see/shoot out of.



-Jake
Posted By: Remington280 Re: Hunting Blind Windows - 01/01/24
Originally Posted by hanco
I make mine like this, glass is a couple bucks a window

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I use cloth and push pins to cover up the biggest part if I have a window open. Especially on the side suns comes up or down

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I really like your box stand....I've built two similar using create boxes with plexiglass for windows...on a skid for easy moving... I generally get any outdoor paint and mix together for a dark color.
Yours are nice!
Posted By: Reloder28 Re: Hunting Blind Windows - 01/01/24
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Removed the tongue, keep it in the barn.

Windows & door are www.deerviewwindows.com

And, the wife pitched in too:
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Posted By: hanco Re: Hunting Blind Windows - 01/01/24
Originally Posted by Remington280
Originally Posted by hanco
I make mine like this, glass is a couple bucks a window

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I use cloth and push pins to cover up the biggest part if I have a window open. Especially on the side suns comes up or down

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I really like your box stand....I've built two similar using create boxes with plexiglass for windows...on a skid for easy moving... I generally get any outdoor paint and mix together for a dark color.
Yours are nice!


Thank you, that box goes on this frame I built in 2020


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Posted By: Remington280 Re: Hunting Blind Windows - 01/02/24
We hunt fields often with our box stands, 6-8ft is plenty.
I noticed you're trying to see above some small trees or brush.
Posted By: TATELAW Re: Hunting Blind Windows - 01/02/24
Originally Posted by Featherweight6555
Deer view is what we use. No problems.
www.deerviewwindows.com
I hunted out of a house with these last year in Missouri. I'm in in the process of building a shoot house right now and these are on order for it
Posted By: jc189 Re: Hunting Blind Windows - 01/02/24
Originally Posted by hanco
I make mine like this, glass is a couple bucks a window

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I use cloth and push pins to cover up the biggest part if I have a window open. Especially on the side suns comes up or down

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Mine look just like hancos. Right down to the material and push pins. Even the wood toggle that keeps the window closed.
Posted By: RHutch Re: Hunting Blind Windows - 01/02/24
We use deerview flip up windows. Used to hand make windows with plywood, router and in set plexiglass.
Deerview is the easy button and they won’t rot.
Posted By: 22kHornet Re: Hunting Blind Windows - 01/02/24
Deerview windows work great. Metal framed with nothing to rot. Buy the tinted ones you will be glad you did.
Posted By: Rock63 Re: Hunting Blind Windows - 01/02/24
Another deer view fan here. Flip up. I recommend adding handles on the inside for times below freezing with moisture to make it easier to open with ice.
Posted By: johna1 Re: Hunting Blind Windows - 01/02/24
Sliding RV/Mobile Home windows are what we use.

Last ones I ordered was 24x24 and costed about $26 a piece shipped.

That was probably 8 years ago now though and you'd probably be lucky to get one for $100 nowadays.

Plain plexiglass on a door hinge with some nuts and bolts through it will work just fine too.
Posted By: fburgtx Re: Hunting Blind Windows - 01/05/24
Have used Deerview, as well. Simple design. Seal up well. Price is reasonable until you start getting into really long ones.
Posted By: powdr Re: Hunting Blind Windows - 01/06/24
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