Building "The Condo" Blind - Part II (LOTS of Pics)

First See: Building "The Condo" Blind - Part I

Unloaded


Floor assembled



Side pannels & roof goes up




[b]Not completely finished, but huntable[b]

Nice. We also have a blind we call "The Hilton."

It has 11 windows and 2 lazy boy recliners in it.

Now that's what I call nice.

Bring that out to the Permian Basin and you could rent it out to the oilfield hands for about 450 a month.

A fouton in a deer blind. Now I've seen it all.

Nice looking set up

LOL, looks like my next project!

I've got a foosball table you could put in there to keep em kids occupied. You have the room for it!!

Thanks guys . . as far is the futon is concerned, many times we will stay in the blind at night with the outside plywood windows down so no light gets out (The inside windows are plexiglass). That way we don't spook any deer/hogs driving/walking into the blind in the morning. It has worked very well.

I also just put up an Alusive Technologies "Kill Light" on the feeder. The futon will come in handy if we do an all night hog hunt and take turns on watch.

foosball? With the futon folded up we would probably have room for it, but the noise probabily would not be too good for hunting :-)

We do have a coleman stove and keep some canned goods on hand. Can make coffee in the morning and it sure comes in handy during the rut when we sometimes stan in the blind all day.

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that's awesome.

what are the dimensions? That is awesome!

When does the plumbing & electrical go in?

Nice job - gives them boys something to do too!

The dimensions were noted in Part I where we were actually building it in the garage. It's 8' X 10'.

I've been thinking about putting in a solar pannel to charge a car battery for lighting and to power a spotlight for hogs. I've got a gas lantern and a couple of battery powered lights now which work just fine; however, a car battery could also power the kids electronics to keep them occupied during long stand stays.

It would be nice to have a port-a-potty for when we stay overnight or sit in blind all day.

It was a great learning project for Matt (and for myself for that matter). He learned how to use various power tools and the rewards of a job well done. After we had completed building it and putting it up in the field, he told me "Wow... all the father/son projects of kids I know are little projects like building a model airplane or a bird house or someting, but we built a small camp house!!". To top it all off, He killed his first buck (a nice 8 Pt) out of "The Condo".

That is a heck of a stand!! For a toilet you could always just make a "urinal" funnel piped out the side and away from the blind will take care of half the issues at least.

Very Nice

^^^This works. Get a 5 gallon bucket, cut holes in the bottom and bury it. Load it up with rocks and sand and then stick the hose into the sand and bury it all. Makes for a great urinal and covers all scents.

That thing is big enough that it might get you on the county tax rolls as an improvement.

Where's the DirecTV dish?

Great pics and sweet condo!

Great looking blind/cabin/home

Looks good with plenty of room

I notice that you have not anchored that blind down yet. Are you going to?

It's been there for two hunting seasons with no problems as it's very wide, long, and relatively close to the ground. I should probably anchor it down though.

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Jeeze... that's all I need... more taxes!

I think we will pass on the DirectTV. LOL

Looks great. I would anchor it though. It would take a lot to blow it over, but if it did, it would be heck to right it.

WOW!

Man I thought my atascosa blind was nice. Good job

That is exactly how my new one is going to look like, thanks for the idea. Good looking condo!! have a/c?

Nice

LOL... No, doesn't have A/C unless you count open windows from Nov thru March Does have a futon, heater and a coleman stove though.

Stayed in it this past weekend. I've got an Elusive Wildlife Kill Light attached to the bottom of the feeder, but no hogs came in. I do have a bunch of Trophy Raccoons hitting the feeder though. Got to be some 30+ pounders in that bunch. Going to take my 22lr with me this weekend and thin them out a bit.

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Just an idea....you have so much wall space that you could put up some 4x6 pictures of you and your boy with the deer that you've taken out of the blind..as the years go by and he gets bigger it will be a cool reminder of your hunts

Hey Rob... that's a great Idea! I've got a few pics, but will start making a point to always take pics going forward. Here is a pic of a 10PT I took from the Condo last year.



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did you need a permit to build that?lol, I want one

Thats awesome man. I never understoon guys who build a blind from scratch, and make it 4'x4'x5'.

Me and my dad built one when i was a kid that was 7'x7'x7' and i thought it was huge! 10x10 is awesome. really nice job.

LOL....no permit:-). As you can see from the pics, it was built of 4x8 pannels, so it was relatively easy to assemble in the field.

The absolute biggest advantage to the size is that we can stay in there the night before a hunt.... soooo.. we make no noise at all driving in and getting to the stand in the morning. We're already there. Get to sleep a hour & 1/2 more as well. Also, all the windows have an "outer" plywood sliding window and an "inner" plexiglass window. So when we are in there at night we can close the outter plywood windows and no light gets out.

Works very well.

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Only in Texas!

Great looking stand! How did you handle the roof and make it water tight?

Hey XCHIEF47

First I put flat 4x8 pannels on and then covered that with a tin roof raised on one side and sealed the cracks with spray in foam.

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