I'm building mine now and am putting up a few shelves and even a coat hanger. Started to think about making room for my gas-powered heater and thought... I wonder what people keep in their stands and if they have any nooks or crannies I need to know about. Anyone have any unique toys in their stands or interesting places to hang you phone, binoculars, gun, food, drinks, etc? Pictures?

don't have anyting except for 2 shelves and a hook to hang my bino's.

less stuff i have in the blind, less stuff i kick over scrambling for my rifle

no shelves, no hooks, just 2 office chairs.

Shelves, hook for stuff, heater, & roll of TP in a zip lock.

two chairs,heater,cokes,beer,radio,tp,blanket,snack goodies,couple shelves,tap lights,my girls bring nintendo ds's with them,and what ever else we grab on the way!!

yellow jackets!!

lol, you need a person that can run fast?

I buy tin cans at garage sales... like fruitcake cans but I prefer cans with a wire bail, like lard cans... mice can't get into them.

I put a small flash light, matches or lighter, survey tape (for tracking wounded game) 1/2 roll of toilet paper, pen and a knife (for filling out tags) cheese crackers, viani sausages, gum and jolly ranchers. Sometimes I have 2 so I put in a spare grunt call, and tinks 69, and a copy of hunting regulations. I also keep a small note book and log game seen and killed from my blind.

I like the cans with the bails because I put cup hooks in the roof corners and hang them out of the way.

Coat hook on door and nails in the sides of the studa for hanging calls, binocs, ect. Shelf above window has a few rounds of ammo.

couple chairs, some camo mesh on my windows and a bunch of old bottles on the floor. its a mess lol. several of them i wouldnt open if you know what i mean.

I usually leave a few bottles of water in the stands early, like hooks, especially U hooks for rifles, and I like to carpet up as high as possible...

On some with 1inch metal tubing for frames, or plywood edges, we have the foam insulation pieces for pipe, slide them over the rails for safe, quite, non-marring pads...

Also usually a small roll of picture frame wire, for secuing windows. latches, mending feeders, etc...

A buddy of mine leaves pliers in every stand, but I just carry the multi-tool

One corner shelf for an adult beverage, coffee can for butts/brass, two office chairs.

Barn owls, if someone left the windows open!

I hate owls........

can of snuff, porn............ you know Texas Trophy Hunter
and my back pack wich is loaded with goodies for sit'n out the day if need be.

kt

2 easy chairs, TV, set of bunk beds with bedding, gun rack, radio, ceiling fan, extra ammo, and a few snacks. The drinks are in the refrigerator in the next room.

4'x6' stand, 12' tower
Two shelves (one on each side)
Hat / coat hook
Large Gatorade plastic bottle for relief <grin>
Two folding chairs
Coleman "Black Cat" propane heater
One spare bottle of propane
Lighter
Dark colored towel to block the sun during afternoons
Small pillow for napping

mine got 2 hooks, one for backpack and one for bow, then just leaves limbs and a a pad to set on treestand...cant put much in those lock-ond and ladders

ac

I'm assuming you already know of such things as old carpet for the floor to deaden the sound of chair movement. I also prefer hinged windows that open to the inside with something that latches at the top.

It brings to mind when my partner walked up to one of our stands where the windows had left open for months. Just as he approached it, a huge buzzard comes flying out the window and dang near scared him to death. He later found that it had built a nest and laid eggs.

Needless to say, we now call it the "Buzzard Stand".

one office chair, one folding chair, old carpet on the floor, and a log to record what we see on every sit and when feed was put out.

Pluss a few yellow jackets, the ocasional owl. The thinkg I have found that I hated the most were black widows. I have killed two of them in one of our ground blinds, now that we have put it on a tower I havent seen one.

matt

a hole in the wall with a piece of pvc running into the ground to piss in so i didnt have to down my drinks any more to use the bottle

I didn't have much in there. I'm about to build a new box for my metal stand. I'm thinking of including some sort of hook I can use as a gun rest/stabilizer. I'm probably gonna put a coat hook and back pack hook in it, not to mention carpet, and definately a full size door. I hate making 4 trips up and down my ladder carrying stuff up and down. Of course windows on all sides as well.

Small shelf between the two windows. It has two barrel rests, the top holds my binoculars,drink and a book. I have pegboard on the sides. There I hang my rifle sling, hat, jacket, pistol belt, anything else that needs to be kept off the floor. A top shelf holds matches, TP, and wasp spray. I keep a propane heater in there in case the wife tags along on cold mornings.

My deer stand has a badass in it most weekends from November through mid-January.