How to build—and hunt from—your own bear box

INSTALLATION

After I completed building and painting each blind in my garage, my hunting partner and I disassembled it, loaded the pieces into my pickup and hauled everything to our hunting locations, completing the journey with an ATV and tub trailer. I built jigs to hold the walls vertically in place in the tub trailer, as well as to square up the walls on the uneven ground at the bait site.

Before reassembling each blind, we cleared the ground of any vegetation, leaves or twigs that might make noise underfoot once we were inside the completed structure. Next, I bolted the walls tightly together and attached the roof. Then my partner climbed inside and sealed up any visible cracks using a can of expanding foam. Finally, I installed a large hook in a roof truss to hang my bow, wrapping the hook in foam padding to dampen any noise.