Best deer stand accessories you've bought or made

[ducks-and-bucks]

I accidently hit a wall of one of our blinds decently hard and it made a little gap between the frame and the wall.... That gap is now the spitter gap where I spit my copenhagen while hunting.

[biglew]

This for when it's hot and Mr Buddy heater for when it's cold.

Now I gotta try this!

[ATControlFreak]

When I was a kid my dad built us a deer blind/cabin... it was 8 foot off the ground... porch on the side with a ladder to climb up to the porch...

The hunting part was 10 ft long and 5 ft wide with a bench seat it in and table built into the corner. 8 ft tall so there was storage shelves up above your head when you stood up.

Under the table, you could flip up the table and there was a 8 inch pipe with a lid on it then went down to one inch pvc, through the floor and into the groud to pee in when ya needed to pee. flushed it by pouring some water into it when you were done....

propane heater and one burner stove hooked up with copper lines that went through the floor and out to a 5 gallon propane bottle in the brush...

windows 360 degrees....

at the end of the bench seat there was a 3ft by 3 ft crawl space that went into the sleeper area in back. This was attached to the side of the deerblind/cabin where you crawled into it from the hunting part and we had soft mats in there to lay down. it was like 3 foot tall so you couldnt stand up, but 5 ft wide and the 10 ft long... with a little window in it...

The blind is built with insulation in it and everything... it was warm..

We used to put a car battery on the porch and my dad had an adapter where we hooked up a tv in the sleeper and we spent the night in the deer blind quite a few times... we would cook dinner, watch deer, after it got dark we would watch movies or tv shows for a few hours in the sleeper area, then crash out. Then we would get up to hunt right before light and crawl back into the hunting part of the blind.... watch deer and cook breakfast on the stove...

I was young enough where many times I would still be asleep and my dad would wake me up by saying "your bucks out there, get up" so I'd get up real quick, crawl into the hunting part and shoot a deer he told me to shoot. It was pretty cool as a kid. like a big tree house. As I got older I kinda saw how ridiculous it all was... The blind and all is still there at our ranch, no one uses it anymore, lots of memories though. Now I have more fun freezing my butt off and sitting over the heater when I hunt...

You can't have a write up like that without pics! We'll give you a temporary reprieve until you can get out to the ranch and take some. That thing sounds AWESOME (and ridiculous).

[sharkhunter]

I had a stand that sat at the crossing of two pipelines. I mounted a auto rear view mirror to help me watch behind me and it worked great.

[KNEE DEEP]

Heater and battery operated fan.Also those battery operated tap lights.Pretty handy.

[tazhunter0]

I built a phone charger that i can bolt to the bottom of my ladder stand. Ammo can with a 12 volt battery and a accessory port mounted to the side. I plug my phone charger into it and charge my phone or my daughter's ipod.

[RTC]

This for when it's hot and Mr Buddy heater for when it's cold.

I need one of those!

[Fiddlefish]

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Bow holder/shelf for G-blind

Sweet bow holder!!

[sqiggy]

On my climbing stands, I took those old metal type gun racks that are mounted on the back windshield of a truck, cut them where it's just a single holder, then weld one on each side in front of my climbing stand. Then, when you are gun huntin, you can just lay your gun down right at your finger tips. No need to hold the rifle the entire hunt. When I'm bow huntin, I can lay an extra arrow across it incase I need that quick second shot.
Then I built a cup or bottle holder that connects on with either my climbing stands or my lock-ons. No bolts or screws to deal with. Just lift up and take with me if I'm gonna hunt a different stand.
I also make all my bow hangers just like the ones you can buy at the store. This is the one thing I can't hunt without!!! So I make enough of them I can just leave in the tree. Ain't nuthin I hate worse, than getting up a tree and find out I don't have a bow hanger!!!

[C.Read]

Mr. Heater and Thermacell.

There's a couple of ideas here that I'm going to look at doing this year.

[Rando]

and...

I built a phone charger that i can bolt to the bottom of my ladder stand. Ammo can with a 12 volt battery and a accessory port mounted to the side. I plug my phone charger into it and charge my phone or my daughter's ipod.

I would like to see this... maybe with a solar panel attached as well to keep battery well

[Csmith52779]

Do you really think the ozonic works. Nothing but a fan in a black box that cost several hundred dollars?

I was at gander mountain friday and the bear rep and ozonics rep was there in College Station. The Ozonic guy set it up sprayed doe pee in the archery range turned on the Ozonic and with 4-6 min the smell was totally gone. I wouldnt have believed it till I saw it and I saw it work so I am a believer now!

[Texas Grown]

I hunt a lot of public lands. So I'm always changing places. Instead of cutting limbs for cover for my tree stands (it's not allowed in some places), I've been using this product. It dose help to break up your outline for concealment very well . I use it on ground blinds too. It's always green, unless I use the brown limbs too. And bunches up for transport very easily. weighs very little too.

https://www.camoflex.net/

[Pineywoods Paul]

I love to "Pimp My Deerstand" if it's rifle/ box blind.

My favorite accessory is Deer View Mirror available in Sportsman Guide catalog or Deer Watcher Mirror sold on a website a guy in Louisiana has.

Also, I like a clamp style camcorder camera mount device that I can mount my camcorder or spotting scope with. It clamps to your shelf below the windows and holds camcorder super steady hands-free, and you can even capture the shot with it. Hard to find, I bought mine at a booth at Hunters' Extravaganza.

Finally, I string two wires through the top and bottom sleeves of a 12"h x 48"w valence / short olive green curtain (WallMart carries them with curtains and window blinds) and secure both ends of both wires to screws on inside of each side of window top and bottom. I then cut the valence vertically and slide the pieces along the wires to give me narrow visibility and shooting slits and also prevents being "silhouetted" by the critters.

I seal my reading material in a plastic bin to keep mice and insects off books, a can of emergency wasp spray, and a bottle of no scent spray to freshen up. Also a hospital issued plastic urinal, packets of lens wipes, my Thermacell, a propane heater, and headsets to plug into my iPhone to listen to football games.

[Tx_bowhunter86]

My spit cup lol