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Post by bigredneck on Dec 9, 2012 19:07:47 GMT -5
What are your thoughts on deer shanties?
We have a lot in our area. I know of 3 that are over 30' in the air and big enough for 4 or 5 guys. Almost all have a wood stove.
An older gentleman just built one 24' X 24' and 10' off the ground. It has a natural gas cook stove and at least 3 gas heaters. He owns a lot of ground and has free gas. He had over 20 guys there for lunch on the first Saturday LOL
The old strip mines and even reclaimed area's give these guys huge areas to watch. Most have a spotting scope so they can count points.
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Post by Dutch on Dec 9, 2012 20:32:30 GMT -5
Sounds like a good place to get away from the wives!  |
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Post by galthatfishes on Dec 10, 2012 8:49:11 GMT -5
What if the wimmen built them to get away from you men?  |
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Post by bake545 on Dec 10, 2012 8:59:48 GMT -5
What if the wimmen built them to get away from you men? I'm guessing they'd have nice curtains then! |
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Post by dougell on Dec 10, 2012 9:07:26 GMT -5
Personally,I despise deer shanties but that's just me.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2012 11:14:03 GMT -5
I knew a guy that built one with sliding plexi glass windows( 360 degree view) and ranelectric to it--hot plate, coffee pot, and a old fashion swiveling barbers chair with a built on rifle rest.
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Post by bake545 on Dec 10, 2012 12:05:33 GMT -5
We have 5 elevated shacks on our place although none of them can fit 20 guys for lunch. A couple you could reasonably fit 3 adults. My grandfather hunts out of the one we call #2, he's in his late 80's and can't take the cold so he has a heater inside. Without a shooting house he probably wouldn't be hunting in the cold. We have another with a 24 foot ramp that is 6 feet off the ground for a disabled friend, it also has a spot for a heater.
I rarely sit in any of them though, just not my cup of tea unless it's pouring down rain. I generally like to be in thicker woods and keep my shooting relatively close and have been successful doing it. Some day, when I'm older, the shooting houses will probably be nice but that won't be any time soon.
I see no reason to despise them as Doug said without knowing the circumstances of the hunter using them.
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Post by dennyf on Dec 10, 2012 12:14:25 GMT -5
My "deer shanty" is an old 4x6 box trailer that I hauled up to camp years ago. Now it's covered on three sides, with a roof and two sliding windows: One on the front, one on a side. The other side just has a large opening, which I position facing the woods and away from the wind/weather. The back has a piece of military camo netting over it.
Can't cover the ground I once could and it makes a dandy place to go when it rains, or is very cold'n windy.
Usually roll it out on the high knob in my hay field, where it affords a good view of the woods uphill, two wooded fencerow gullies deer like to travel in and two other fields.
And since it's a trailer, can put it wherever I want to put it. This year I added a small propane radiant heater. And when my feets get too sore to walk much, can drive up near it and park back in the woods, short hop to the "shanty".
Many huts/tree stands now where I hunt and it's the reason so few deer get moved these days, but I'm past the point of walking miles per day for deer.
This year I added an old Bronco II to the inventory (4x4, 5 spd). Put almost 11 miles on it during the two week season, driving from camp up into the hayfield near the trailer, usually parked it below the knob or in the edge of the woods. From there it's less than 200 yards to some of my stands up higher in the woods.
Saved my feets enough for a coupla longer hikes in week II, when I had the woods to myself.
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Post by Dutch on Dec 10, 2012 12:33:48 GMT -5
If I had a heated shanty for my Dad and a way for him to get in to it, like a ramp, I bet he'd still be hunting, well except for the macular degeneration in his scope eye.
I'm of the opinion, I don't care how we get hunters out in the woods, just so we get them there.
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Post by dougell on Dec 10, 2012 15:17:01 GMT -5
I see no reason to despise them as Doug said without knowing the circumstances of the hunter using them. I can understand an older hunter or a disabled hunter using them but that's about it.I don't think they should be outlawed or banned but it's not hunting as I see it.I really don't care if anyone uses them at all just like I don't care if someone uses a crossbow.It just isn't me and it's not why I'm out there. I really don't care how or where anyone else hunts or what they hunt with as long as it's legal and I'd never try to stop them from doing it.However,I'll freely admit that I'm very opinionated on the way I like to do things when it comes to hunting and not all of it makes sense.I detest most people taking running shots at deer but frown upon someone shooting a sitting grouse or rabbit.I don't like crossbows but never fought their inclusion because I felt they were probably needed at this point.Still,I won't use one and I won't let my kid use one,even thought I've thought about it.Binds?well I just don't like them.I have a buddy who owns a pile of land in Susquehanna county.He has these expensive compsoite blinds all around the perimeter of this property.Every year a bunch of my old college roomates go up and hunt.Usually they double up in a blind because no one is allowed on the interior of the property.They sit and B.S all day and take long pokes at deer as they feed undisturbed in the fields.I went up twice,hunted the interior of the property and just never felt like going back.It was fun seeing old friends but I ain't sitting in a blind with someone and watch them text all day and play games on their phone.Hunting is a year long mission to me that I take pretty serious.Again,that's just me and I don't expect everyone to look at it the same.Still,it's hard to change the minds of thick-headed people.My wife is one lucky lady lol. Read more: www.pfsc.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=712#ixzz2EgHsObkr |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2012 16:50:44 GMT -5
Anyone see those tree blinds, they are plastic tree trunks with a roof and magnetic windows, looks realistic and is over 6 feet high. Price tag is heavy though, around 3 grand.
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Post by rober on Dec 10, 2012 17:19:04 GMT -5
My uncle built one out of that black culvert pipe. It is like 3 or 4 ft. round pipe and he put a roof on it. Cant hardly see it in the woods and it keeps him fry and warm
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Post by dennyf on Dec 10, 2012 17:20:45 GMT -5
I could buy another old Bronco II for transportation to blinds and another dozen trailer blinds, for 3 grand. Bein's as how the trailer was free about 45 years ago and the little Ford cost $600. And the heater and cigarette lighter even work. No brakes to speak of, though?  A blind of some kind works for me now at 66, but ya wouldn't have caught me in one years ago. Never even had a tree stand of any kind, until I was in my late 40s. Before that, always had a hard time staying in one spot for more than an hour or two. |
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Post by Dutch on Dec 10, 2012 17:25:33 GMT -5
My uncle built one out of that black culvert pipe. It is like 3 or 4 ft. round pipe and he put a roof on it. Cant hardly see it in the woods and it keeps him fry and warm That sounds interesting. Got any pics? |
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Post by Bill on Dec 10, 2012 17:26:43 GMT -5
They're not my thing, maybe when I get as old as some here I'll change my tune. I have no problem with people hunting out of them but at what point do some of them go from being a hunting blind to a small home? lol |
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Post by Dutch on Dec 10, 2012 17:30:08 GMT -5
Mind specifying the "some" you mean? Thank you. ;D
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Post by Bill on Dec 10, 2012 17:39:33 GMT -5
Ummmm....I'm gonna go with DennyF for my answer. lol
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Post by Dutch on Dec 10, 2012 17:46:30 GMT -5
My brother, 61 years old, and I covered some ground on Saturday, along with an 11 year old. The 11 year old kept asking us, "Are you ok?", my brother much more than I. But, I also watched my brother hobble down the mountain due to his knees. Felt bad for him, real bad. Going uphill is no problem, down is a major problem.
He told me that he sat down in a wood lot above us and could not get up. That night, in camp, he could barely get out of a chair.
I'll have to send him up to DennyF's place next year, if Denny will have him.
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Post by rober on Dec 10, 2012 19:21:44 GMT -5
My uncle built one out of that black culvert pipe. It is like 3 or 4 ft. round pipe and he put a roof on it. Cant hardly see it in the woods and it keeps him fry and warm That sounds interesting. Got any pics? I dont have any, but I will get some when I go up after Christmas |
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Post by bigredneck on Dec 10, 2012 19:52:58 GMT -5
A friend of mine build a shanty on a trailor for his 80+year old Dad.
It is a condo, T111 siding, stained, soffit and facia, curtians on the windows. They stock it with enough food to feed a family of 6 for a month. Heater with a flat plate on the top for the pots and pans.
My friend lost his Mom a couple years ago and knows his Dad has limited time so he is doing everything he can to let him enjoy hunting. Dad only lasts till lunch time but he still gets out there every morning.
I told my friend his Dad has a better hunting shanty than some peoples homes.
Dutch you could hide from them womans in that place LOL
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Post by Dutch on Dec 10, 2012 20:31:52 GMT -5
That sounds interesting. Got any pics? I dont have any, but I will get some when I go up after Christmas I'd be interested in them. Never heard of such a shanty. |
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Post by bake545 on Dec 10, 2012 20:48:46 GMT -5
First one we built in '96 I think. Aptly named #1.  Here is the last one we built, not quite finished yet. Don't seem to have any pictures of the others handy though.  |
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Post by GlennD on Dec 11, 2012 8:00:38 GMT -5
I built one for my Dad many years ago when his age started creeping up on him..
Basically 4X8. Easy to make sliding plexiglass windows. Put a kerosene heater in it and a small gas cook stove and he was happy as a lark for an all day sit. Killed his last buck there when he was about 90 with his .243 at about 100 yards.
I highly recommend one for your aging hunting partners. It will keep them in the woods for a few more years.
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Post by dennyf on Dec 11, 2012 8:56:36 GMT -5
First raised "deer shanty" we ever saw up north, was built by some guys that bought hunting land at the SW end of our valley. Probably at least 25 years ago?
There's a cleared pasture area jutting out from the forested mountain ridge down there, that's basically a hog back coming down to the creek below. Their tower was about 20' high and stuck out like a sore thumb to anyone driving down the valley.
Don't know if they ever had any success there from their tower, but it was too much temptation for the local lads, once most of them had 3 wheel ATVs. It got toppled after only a few years and they never tried to rebuild it.
Kinda predated the "if you build it, they will come knock it down" sort of thinking. Now that most everyone up there has satellite TV for entertainment, things are much safer in the off season.
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Post by tundragriz on Dec 11, 2012 15:13:31 GMT -5
I prefer something more open with a better view.  |
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