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Put this bad boy up labor day weekend, it is a Shadow Hunter Octagon blind and it I love how it ended up.




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It has archery corners and awesome built in shelfs/shooting rests. I also love the two-layered window system (aluminum over plexiglass)




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We put it up on 12 foot 4x4"s, so the views are wicked. It should offer a lot of great years of bringing the kids out to watch nature and provide some comfort for those brutally cold, late season hunts.




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View from one of the windows...It is in the middle of 2.5 acres of DblTree's Cereal mix / alice white clover patch (pic taken labor day). The south facing timber in the pic has also been roughed up (edge feathered & hinged cut) and provides great bedding cover




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Great view from the blind of a pond 125 yards away, has all the makings of a great spot

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Very nice! I'm currently building a blind from an old fertilizer tank and while I plan on it being on the ground, after seeing your set up, it may have a future in the air.
 
Also have one being built out of an old poly tank. We used power poles and bridge plank for a 6x8 platform on the little one and a 8x12 on our big one, both 12' up. Can't wait to share photos. The poly tank was $400 otherwise the poles and planks were free. The big stand will be known as the taj mahol, it will have a deck around the entire outside and will be stick-built rather than a bought blind.
 
Man, that looks awesome! What a view. I just got 2 last month, but just put them on the ground in 2 places I have always hunted with pop-ups on a high hilltop narrow cornfield with deep timber valleys, dropping off on all sides. Do you put the posts in the ground? I worry about mine blowing over on the ground even. How did you attatch it to the base you made, or did you? I love the way these things are made, windows and all. Can't wait to see how my deer react that get downwind when all the windows are up. The silent opening windows are great. I am not waiting till late season though, we will be bowhunting this week in them, with the corn out allready, other than what I leave standing.

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I can't wait to see pictures of the poly & fert. tank blinds, I'd like to put up another and I'd love to see what you guys do.

6x6, I used that company's elevator kits (like $90), that you put the 4x4's directly in and then lag bolt both the 4x4's & the blind - GREAT PRODUCT. I also screwed a hole in one of the pre-cut lag holes and did a through bolt with washers in the inside of the blind for extra security. We didn't concrete the legs in, but we did use 48" ground anchors and sunk them in about 3 & 1/2 feet and used cable turns on two sides, all four wouldn't hurt!. That was actually the hardest part from a manual labor perspective, with the ground being concrete hard and us forgetting the pry bar.

There are some decent videos on raising it on YouTube, on GrowingDeerTV.com and on a DVD that came with it, but with the 12' 4x4's we bit off more than we could chew (the blind weights 450 lbs before lumber). We had planned to block the back legs (with the blind laying on it's side and touching the ground) with ground anchors & rachet straps, then use an ATV wench strung over an 18' ladder for leverage, with two guys walking it up from the back. HAH!!! We couldn't even get it to budge. We ended up using a similar system but had to use a fork truck and some country engineering. I was expecting it to be a 5 hour project that took about twice as long with the fork truck, the ladder & the deck.

You've some beautiful spots there, can't wait to see the pics of you guys holding horn with the corn in the background! Feel free to PM me and I can give more details on what we did to get it up. Good luck!
 
Thanks for the info, I have the elevators too, but I like the idea of being able to hook up to it and move, whenever I want, as the season goes on. I do need to get one up in the air, but I just can't commit to the spot.

I gotta always put a tree in front of the camera this time of year. If nothing else, but to just stop him for a couple pics. This one is a smaller maple limb.
 
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