Thanks. This one is a 4X6. Our other one is a 4X4. You can take these off the platform every year and put them in storage, if you wanted. You can set them on the ground, too.

Around $400, I believe. That was a couple years ago.

If you are not going to elevate it - go to a moving company and get some of their wooden crates 8'x4'x6' (they will give them to you) - fit perfectly in the back of a full sized pickup (tailgate down). Frame it for strength, cut and hinge the portals and doors.

It will last about 3-years uncovered.

Get a sportsman condo and be done with it for a looooong time.

My wife works at a shipyard and is looking into some crates as well. There's a guy in Florida that sells them for $60 but by the time I spend gas money to get them I may as well build.

Wouldn't be hard to make these 4x6.

We built 5 of these last year, if you can weld you cant beat it. It's light weight and should last longer than wood. We had roughly $90 in the conduit and $120 in the siding. Instead of tin we used PVC corrugated roofing panels from Home Depot:

The plan in the link below is for 10' bases, the attached material list is for 5' bases.

-Cutting List: http://forum.gon.com/showthread.php?t=627722
-Set shooting rail at 41" high. Door opening is 24". Shooting window
opening is 12 inches.
- Corner and cross bracing for platform on tower base is welded underneath
so plywood lays flat.
- Bottom corner bracing on shooting enclosure is welded on top so enclosure
sits flush on plywood floor.
Tower Stand measurements- Base/ ladder section all �� EMT Conduit
(6) 5� stalks � legs and ladder
(7) 20� Ladder rungs
(2) 7� Horizontal around bottom of tower stand base
(2) 5� Horizontal around bottom of tower stand base
(4) 6� Horizontal across top of tower at platform including (2) center cross braces to support plywood
(2) 4� Horizontal across top to finish rectangle
(24) 12� corner braces (use up scrap first)
(3) Cut to fit (roughly 3.5�) leg cross bracing
Tower Stand measurements-shooting enclosure all �� EMT Conduit
(9) 48� Short side (depth) wall supports, and center floor support
Cut 2 out of a 10� stalk � leaves 24� scrap for corner braces or 12� bottom braces
(6) 72� width bottom/top/window supports
(2) 72� Front uprights- ends are not flattened on any uprights
(4) 69� Rear uprights and door frame (3� drop for angle on roof)
(8) 12� angle braces for floor of stand - and small shooting window rails on either side of door- 2 can be cut from scrap left over from horizontal frame
(6) 24� angled corner baces from upright to lower shooting window rail
140� �� EMT Conduit, 140� of �� EMT Conduit, 1 sheet �� plywood, tin, sides

A 4' x 4' shooting house is just too dang small for me. I like a comfortable office chair to sit in and they are just too little for me.

I've been building one a year for the last 3 years on my land. I keep tweaking the plan a little each time a slight improvement and here's the latest. Material list doesn't include metal roofing that I have left over from building my barn.

My biggest is an 8x8. You can stretch out and take a nap in it.

The latest ones are 6x6

We have 3 like this. They work well but are colder than wooden ones. They are also 6x6

I built an 8x8 that is 7' off the ground -had plans of framing up walls and such -the land was reportedly sold as soon as I had the platform built.

I made my mind up I wasn't going to try and make it 'perfect' -just get it close to square screw it off good and hunt out of it.
I used 4x4 treated [all materials treated] for the legs -I measured the width of a 2x6 down from the top and glued and screwed a 1' 2x4 at the corners for the 2x6 to sit on.

Screwed a 2x6 joist to the top of 2 4x4's dropped the 4x4 legs into a 1' deep hole I had dug -leveled them -packed dirt around to hold it upright.
Repeated that process by digging 2 more holes square to the standing 4x4 with 2x6 joist.
Then joined the 2 together -now all you have to do is add 3 more joist hangers/joists heave a 3/4" sheet of treated plywood -square it up -screw it down to joist .
You will have a couple of inch gap since non of the joist were cut -you'll need a 1x4 to fill the gap . NO lumber cutting -ALL full length 8' lumber and decking.
This took me 5hrs by myself -I was informed that evening the land had been sold and the future of the lease was unknown .
SO instead of building roof -walls and windows etc. like I had planned I used some odd shaped rolled edge 1x2" lumber - don't even know what it is used for but it is in the treated lumber area at lowes depot.
I screwed these 8' length 1x2" 'sticks' to the outside edge around the perimeter then used some over head and put an 8x8 camo tarp over it for a roof - then used camo tarp for walls and some screen to look/shoot through. Just staple the wall camo tarp on from inside the blind -I've used landscape weed barrior stuff too -CHEAP $5 a roll -just staple it from the inside.
About $250 in materials and 8 hrs of labor .
I just cobble it here and there when need be -I camp out in this shooting house for days at a time .
I have a cot/deeluxe pad -5gal. water dispenser -walmart sleeping bags [made in Alabama] -propane stove and can see and shoot from 3 directions 75 yds -210 yds and 300+ yds.

no plans but here are some pics:

out with the old, single man:


disassemblied panels on trailer to be reassembled on base:


building base:


these two young fellas are both 6'2" and they had plenty of room:


getting the sides together:


roof on, then trim:


think that one was 5' x 8'

removing this one to place in new spot. it is 4' x 6':


augered holes in hard-pack:


placing on base:


winching into position:


repurposed old base wood for tensioners and built new stairs.it will fit two of these snug:


the 6' x 8's are really big if you have to sit and watch alone.

I saw this one on a club I turkey hunted and had to take a pic. No way I would sit on it.