Mallardsx2
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Kodiak canvas
Base Camp Tent Options For a Family of 4
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802flyfish
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Kodiak for summer/shoulder season camping.
Davis for all year camping.
Davis for all year camping.
KB_
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Yea its been fine. No issues with it. Just take care of your stuff and it will hold up perfectly fine. Also dont use it during a freakin snow or wind storm. Doesn't matter how expensive your tent is. Mother nature always wins.
Adamhuntingstuff
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I appreciate the response! I am on the fence between trying it or getting a used canvas tent on marketplace. Feel like there are pros and cons with either option.
Bought a Davis tent a couple of years ago and have been very happy with it
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I've got a 12x14 framed cabin Tent with a 12x10 add on for a cook tent both have stove jacks then I had a boot/sleeve added so I could use a AC unit during the Texas Dove season. Never had the whole family out in it,I have set it up in the yard for my wife to see if it met her approval. which it did. you might want to check Davis Tent and awning Company out of Denver COLORADO.they are reasonably priced.
I also purchased the same tent. I like it a lot. I also have a Davis 14x16. The Ozark trail one is my preferred one for quick weekend camping. One issue I find is that the pvc material makes condensation form easier in the inside when sleeping but I only notice it in the Midwest where humidity is more an issue than when I go out west. Great value and it comes with a stove jack!
KayakMacGyver
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Figure I could circle back on this and let everyone know what we decided and how it's worked out.
I bought the seek outside 8 man tipi with a stove and half nest. Pretty spendy buy ($2k) that I wish I could have found used. I justified the purchase as we used it on a 7 day late season elk hunt in sub freezing temps. A hotel would have cost about the same for that week.
It's been a good tent, but not without its faults. Plenty of room. We used it on a week long camping trip with the kids during spring Turkey and let them pitch their own tent on the opposite side of our half nest. Worked really well as the interior of these tips are quite massive.
Pitching has been tricky to dial in and, let me tell you, finding a suitable footprint is NOT easy. For this reason, it's very limited in its use case in my opinion. In fact, we are planning to bring it on our elk hunt this year and I have no idea where it could be set up in the areas I have scouted.
The stove is very nice. On our late season hunt when temps got down into the low single digits, three of us rotated shifts through the night and stayed very warm and comfortable all night. Staying warm while gearing up in the morning is a game changer too.
If I'm buying again I might go for something with a little square in structure like a wall tent. I couldnt do canvas though because of our primary climate. This because my big aspirations of using it for back country base camping seems a bit unrealistic considering the footprint. Time will tell, though.
Thanks for all the great suggestions and ideas.
I bought the seek outside 8 man tipi with a stove and half nest. Pretty spendy buy ($2k) that I wish I could have found used. I justified the purchase as we used it on a 7 day late season elk hunt in sub freezing temps. A hotel would have cost about the same for that week.
It's been a good tent, but not without its faults. Plenty of room. We used it on a week long camping trip with the kids during spring Turkey and let them pitch their own tent on the opposite side of our half nest. Worked really well as the interior of these tips are quite massive.
Pitching has been tricky to dial in and, let me tell you, finding a suitable footprint is NOT easy. For this reason, it's very limited in its use case in my opinion. In fact, we are planning to bring it on our elk hunt this year and I have no idea where it could be set up in the areas I have scouted.
The stove is very nice. On our late season hunt when temps got down into the low single digits, three of us rotated shifts through the night and stayed very warm and comfortable all night. Staying warm while gearing up in the morning is a game changer too.
If I'm buying again I might go for something with a little square in structure like a wall tent. I couldnt do canvas though because of our primary climate. This because my big aspirations of using it for back country base camping seems a bit unrealistic considering the footprint. Time will tell, though.
Thanks for all the great suggestions and ideas.
802flyfish
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Can no longer recommend Davis wall tent after my last purchase.
Guess I’ll be going with Montana canvas next purchase.
Guess I’ll be going with Montana canvas next purchase.
I have the cabelas bighorn III and it has been great, main con is the weight. we have the disco cot bunk cots for the kids and we fit four no problem if we bunked our cots would be even more. I used wood stove first couple years then went to a big buddy heater run a 6' line out to a big tank outside the tent. Used for years no issues.
95 degrees? Camping? Nothing says RV with a strong a/c unit to me like that. I have a great wall tent but I will not tent camp in the Texas summer heat. No way I am sleeping outdoors in that heat. Just not physically possible. I have even thought about getting a window a/c unit for the tent to use it in the summer some.
