New box stand build with pics

Nice build. Where are you hunting?

Where is the beer holder?

Damn! My dude put an actual door on that shite haha nice stand!

Stabbin' cabin

I've got a couple nice box stands, but they ain't nothing like that.

I can honestly say this is the first time I've ever seen a full-sized door with a dead bolt on it on a deer stand.

That is very nice. A lot of lumber and time went into the steps and porch. Curious if that was done to accommodate any thing particular like someone with a handicap?

Very nice man. Great looking stand.

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Total cost was $1400.

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MY GOD ALMIGHTY

Thanks for all the comments.

So, to answer some of your questions:

We’re hunting in the Spillman area.

The tie downs are temporary and I plan to use a trailer anchor. Thanks for the advice on tieing it into all four corners. Didn’t think about that.

And about the door, I wanted a solid wood door that I could trim some height off of and still stay solid. That’s the only one I could find on Craigslist or Restore. Couldn’t find a 32”. I figured a hollow door or a handbuilt door wouldn’t hold up as well. The door came with the deadbolt and doorknob installed. Figured no reason to take them off. The knob side of the deadbolt is actually on the outside; due to wanting the door to swing outward and to the righthand side of the deck.

The windows are from DeerView Windows. Very happy with them. I purchased a 2 foot window to put on the door to open my access there, but one I looked at cutting out the gap in the door for install, I figured it would weaken my door way too much. Not much to see in that direction anyway, besides the stairs.

I actually built the stand for my aging dad and my very young kids. I previously had a 1-man tripod in this spot; this limited on who could hunt it, though sometimes that was a good thing. I had 4 different shooter bucks on camera in daytime on this stand last year, all in a 3 week period. I was at the lease a couple of those times, but was in other stands due to kids. And my dad didn’t care to climb the tripod. I do realize building this huge stand could lessen the deer sightings, but hopefully building this early will help with that.

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Those tie down ropes are snipers after dark or before dawn.

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On my stands I put a eye bolt right dead center under the floor and then put a mobile home tie down anchor in the ground directly below it. Hook a come along to it and crank it down tight. It's been there for 13 years and has not blown over and you will not walk into it.

Damn that's nice. U gonna put tv and a heater in it? Lol