I have a spot that I have never physically hunted on my property that I would like to build a nice shooting house specifically for afternoon hunts...here's why:
I want a stand that I can slip into easily without the risk of getting dirty or muddy so that I can slip right out and take my wife to dinner without having to take a shower and change clothes
I have never hunted this spot because all sign and layout indicates it would be an evening stand: food plot on the edge of a thicket, facing northeast away from any houses or barns, sun will be setting to my back, thick ditch running along the edge deer use as a travel corridor, good view in several different directions...
This will basically be an afternoon rifle stand that I will just sit the last hour and half of daylight when I hunt it....
if you read to this point, I have two issues to ask about.
1) should I go ahead and invest the time into building a shooting house now or wait, pop up a tripod (no good trees to climb or put a ladder stand in)?
2) If build shooting house, use existing materials I have access to that are untreated lumber and spray annually with Thompson's Water Seal? Or go ahead and invest in pressure treated lumber when it is higher than it's ever been in my lifetime?
Property is where wife and I will retire in just a few years. I will shoot at nothing but wall hanger bucks from this location.
I want a stand that I can slip into easily without the risk of getting dirty or muddy so that I can slip right out and take my wife to dinner without having to take a shower and change clothes
I have never hunted this spot because all sign and layout indicates it would be an evening stand: food plot on the edge of a thicket, facing northeast away from any houses or barns, sun will be setting to my back, thick ditch running along the edge deer use as a travel corridor, good view in several different directions...
This will basically be an afternoon rifle stand that I will just sit the last hour and half of daylight when I hunt it....
if you read to this point, I have two issues to ask about.
1) should I go ahead and invest the time into building a shooting house now or wait, pop up a tripod (no good trees to climb or put a ladder stand in)?
2) If build shooting house, use existing materials I have access to that are untreated lumber and spray annually with Thompson's Water Seal? Or go ahead and invest in pressure treated lumber when it is higher than it's ever been in my lifetime?
Property is where wife and I will retire in just a few years. I will shoot at nothing but wall hanger bucks from this location.
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