Post pictures of your DIY box stands!

I bought mine from a guy in Kenner that makes them. Its a 4*6 treated box on 2 ft high skids with a tin roof for $749. I can't build one for much cheaper than that.

It gets the job done, but the Wifi is horrible.

I really hope somebody posts the picture of the milk grate on top of like a 90 ft ladder

those chairs cost more than what i made as a gun rest chair thingy in my shed
. Smoked 2 from this spot this year
the fireball and center table

Go 4x6, or at least 4x5. I don’t mind a wooden stand at all, but the bears like to eat the legs.

I’ve built 2 stands so far. Both with angle iron frames and plywood walls. The first one pictured is the nicest one i have built, it’s 5x6 with deer view windows. The last one is 4x6 with plexiglass panels for windows that i remove once in the stand. I am switching it to deerview windows this year. It’s nice for the kids to just be able to crack the window enough to shoot out of, and block the wind/keep the stand warm. I rarely hunt out of it alone, usually I’m in one of my lock ons. But when i do hunt out of it alone, 6ft is way too wide to be effective. I would probably build the next one 5x5. 4ft is ok for leg room, but 5 ft is just right..

As an added bonus, If you do build a 4x6 stand, it can fit in the back of the truck for transport. Also makes it easy to just back up to where you want it and stand it up.

Hardly qualifies as a box blind but I'm pretty happy with it. About 12ft to platform where two people can sit comfortably in camp chairs. I think It would run about $200 to build now. Tarp for roof needs replaces every 3ish years if a storm doesn't get it first.

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opt for treated when simply extending roof allows use to use regular old plywood and will last for decades.

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I built one of my box stands 7 years ago and used treated for the structural parts. I had some free particle boards for the walls, so I used that thinking I’d have to replace them after 1 or 2 seasons. So far they aren’t showing any signs of rotting!

I also used an old net from a tennis court for upper concealment. Not too bad.

Im 55 and started deer hunting when I was about 8 years old. My father would nail any two boards in a tree and you would sit there 5 hours till he came to get you


I have not deer hunted in 20 years or so. I would love to hunt from one of these new stands.

I found this diagram somewhere on the internet years ago but have yet to actually build a new stand