I hunt out of a pop up ground blind with my kids a few times a year. It helps to keep the 11 & 8 y/o concealed with all their movements. One of the issues in mountain land is find a spot flat enough that you can put the blind out that your not looking up or down from or trying to keep the chair from tipping over. I decided back in the spring I was going to build a small deck to put a ground blind on. I drew it up in CAD, created a bill of material then I priced the lumber from Lowes, It was going to be almost $300 at the time for pressure treated wood to make a 6' x 6' deck. That changed my mind on doing this till I seen my cousin's wife post about tearing down their current deck for a new one they are putting up around their new pool. Reached out to my cousin, told him what I was doing and what I would like to have. I got 8-2x6x12', 6-4x4x6' post and 25 1x4x6' decking boards for free. Just had to go by his house and pick them up. My son and I spent a few hours putting it together in the garage then hauled it to our land. Once I got it set over looking our 0.53 plot, my dad & him used some solid stain we got from free from Lowes to paint it. Then I took roofing paper to cover the decking surface. I bought some cheap I bolts from walmart to strap the blind to. Then I topped it off with a new Primos Smokescreen blind that Rogers had on sale last spring for 159, and Primos had a 100.00 rebate on the blind. So in the end, I have $83.59 in a new ground blind, I Bolts, screws, paint brush & roller for the deck.
