A good buddy and I, are thinking of building a few in the off season. If you were going to build your prefect shooting house, what features, size, materials would you have in it?

We're doing this for fun but thought of building some as a side business, what price would you put on your prefect setup?

Insulation

Pick out a good comfortable chair and build the house around it. If you are not comfortable sitting there, does anything else really matter.

Solar panel for small light
Cup holders
Nice Windows
Carpet on walls and floor
Rifle holder
Seating is very important.
Child seating is even more important
Solar panel for phone charger
Pantry
Shelves for binos and other crap
Butler
Maid
Light bar on the roof for hog hunting (I'm bout to do that actually)
A bracket to hang a buddy heater on so no worries of knocking it over
Coat rack
Cell phone signal booster
Over head storage
Q beam mount
Yardage markers on the wall
Spare butt wipe


Some of those are obviously jokes but not all

a safe set of stairs, especially if guests are going to be hunting it.

A lock on the door that only opens when the wind direction is right.

At least 6'6" inside for us tall fellows to stand up and stretch.

It should be large enough that two hunters can sit side by side in their own rolling office chair, comfortably, and both can see out the extra large window without craning their necks.
4 walls? 4 windows!

jacuzzi

PS4

A pee pipe that runs down into the ground.... a Comfortable chair, insulation indoor/outdoor carpet om the window sills to make them more quite...

Carpeted " shooting shelf" that is the right height.
Like someone else mentioned good steps. Gotta have carpet on the floors and comfy office chairs.

And if anyone can figure out how to keep lady bugs out of them , I'm all ears.

I bought nice office chairs at garage sales for mine. Shelves for storage and a shooting shelf in front of each window. One side wall had coat hooks. Build em tight to keep wasps out. I didn't like the carpet idea. Too hard to clean and it smells bad after it gets wet. You might look at rubber mats instead. For windows, I used sliding RV windows. The key is too build one that you can sit in all day if you want.

Wet bar, Stripper Pole,, etc...

At least 6 big LED flood lights........

rest for rifle to make them long shots

nice windows


carpet on the floor


a good door


and if you price one of the shooting houses sold at Big Box Stores they are very expensive

All walls painted black on the inside. Large awnings on all windows, so no sun shines in. Build it as air tight as you can.

Good advice thus far. Definitely shelves under all shooting windows to use as rest. Go ahead and put "J" hooks in all four corners for coats, backpacks, etc. A couple of shelves mounted above the windows helps hold drinks, snacks, binos, etc. Basically anything to hold gear to keep it off the floor. This is especially helpful when hunting with kids.

I also like the carpeted walls idea to keep noise down, along with the thick, black rubber mat on the floor. I like sliding windows on tracks so you can just crack it a little to get your gun out if you want and don't have to open the whole window. A full size door is nice so you don't have to condense a 6'0"+ man into a ball while wearing 3 layers and carrying a rifle and backpack. I also like to have netting or curtains over all the windows to keep the silhouette down. Installing camo curtains on rods will only add to the value if you're trying to sell these.

I would think a 4x6 built this way and built solidly could sell for $750-$1K depending on quality of construction.

The last couple I have built were 5'deep x 6'wide which is pretty good size for me and my son. I have a couple more to build and those will be 5x8, just for the extra width. I weld up ladders out of square tubing so I don't have to worry about a step failing. Carpet is a must, with good windows and a good roof, you shouldn't have to worry about it getting wet. I build some extra shelves in mine for drinks, and toys, etc... Mine have sliding plexiglass windows in a track I routed in piece of wood. They work pretty good, and I can keep them closed when hunting to keep the warmth inside. I have built mine specifically for the location I am putting them, so they have a 2x10 window seal (turned sideways) on the side that could produce the longest shot and I have a sand bag on that seal. The other windows have a smaller window seal (2x6). The next one I build will need a wide rest on the front window and the left window. I paint the inside walls with some shade of dark paint, at least the upper half of the walls.

5' X 8' with 7' ceiling is a good size. 4' is too narrow.