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Hand-LaminatedFiberglass shell
A36 SteelStructural-grade tower
Made in TexasJacksboro, TX
LifetimeShell warranty
Blind Construction Tower Construction
Part 1 · The Blind

How a VisionX Blind Is Built

Hand-laminated fiberglass, built one shell at a time in our Jacksboro, Texas shop. No kits. No bolt-together parts shipped in from somewhere else.

01

The Shell

Walls, ceiling, and roof are a fiberglass sandwich panel — two hand-sprayed fiberglass skins with closed-cell polyiso insulation board bonded between them.

Sprayed inside and out with a chopper gun running 180H assembled roving and C1 DX premium DCPD laminating resin — the resin family the marine and RV industries use for low shrinkage and long-term dimensional stability.

Every wall seam, window perimeter, and floor-to-wall joint is reinforced with chopped strand mat layup. The result is a one-piece monocoque shell with no fastener-through points to leak, flex, or rot.

It's why we put a lifetime warranty on every fiberglass shell — no asterisks, no fine print.
Hand-laminated fiberglass shell
02

The Floor

The floor is where a blind gets tested. Mud, water, spills, weather cycling between Texas summers and freezing mornings — the floor takes it all.

We don't use wood. Anywhere in the floor.

The floor in every VisionX blind is a Kay-Cel® Core composite panel — high-density polyurethane foam reinforced internally with fiberglass. Made by Kayco Composites, the same composite the marine industry uses to rebuild boat transoms, stringers, bulkheads, and decks.

Kay-Cel composite floor panel

Closed-Cell Foam

Cells don't communicate. Water can't wick through the panel.

No Wood. Ever.

Not "rot-resistant," not "treated." Nothing in it that can rot.

Fiberglass-Reinforced

Marine plywood strength at 30–50% less weight.

Encapsulated

Wrapped to the shell with a 6″ structural fiberglass mat. Floor and walls become one piece.

There is more material cost in the floor of a VisionX blind than most fiberglass blind manufacturers have in their entire shell. The foundation has to be the strongest part of the build.
03

Insulation

Between the fiberglass skins, every blind is core-filled with Atlas EnergyShield® CGF closed-cell polyisocyanurate board — the highest R-value rigid foam available, with glass-mat facers on both sides.

Mold-resistant (UL 2824), Class A fire rated (ASTM E84), service range −100°F to +250°F.

The insulation does three jobs at once: cuts heat transfer, kills sound resonance, and stiffens the shell into a structural sandwich panel that resists flex and oil-canning.

Polyiso insulation core board
04

Windows

Every standard window slides vertically — up and down, not in and out. Set the height you want, it stays there. Always ready for the shot.

Glass: .220″ clear cast acrylic. Heavy enough to take a hit, optically clear, no flex or rattle. Tinted available as upgrade.

The track is custom-extruded aluminum lined with silent felt — tuned to hold the window wherever you set it. No drift, no slamming, no wedging a stick under it.

Framed glass available too, from The Original Deer Blind Window Co. — any size the customer specs.

Vertical slider window
05 · VisionX Exclusive

ABS Rain Guards

Built in-house from heavy ABS plastic, mounted with black stainless steel hardware. Standard above every window and the door, sized to the openings (10″, 18″, 24″, 30″).

Hunt with a window cracked in a hard rain — water stays off your gun, your shelf, and your feet.

Available as a standalone accessory for owners of other blinds. Standard equipment on every VisionX unit.

ABS rain guard close-up
06

Door

24″ × 60″ Pocahontas fiberglass door with locking hardware. Same construction philosophy as the shell — fiberglass skins, foam core. Will not rot or warp.

Gets a 30″ ABS rain guard above it. Steel deadbolt lock standard.

Steel deadbolt door lock
07

Inside

Carpet on the floor and on the walls up to the bottom of the windows. The wall carpet is the final layer of sound dampening on top of the foam-core sandwich shell.

Combined with felt-lined window tracks and polyiso insulation, it kills the small noises that give a blind away — sleeve brush, rifle barrel bump, chair leg scrape. Also takes the chill off the wall on a cold morning.

Standard: shelf with cup holders, integrated shooting rest, and rifle rest along the front wall. Ready to hunt the day it leaves the lot.

Carpeted interior with rifle rest

Build It Your Way

Every VisionX blind can be configured to spec. Spec a custom build in real time using the Blind Builder.

Open the Configurator
Part 2 · The Tower

How a VisionX Tower Is Built

Fabricated in-house from American A36 hot-rolled structural steel. Every tower includes porch, railing, dual-rail steps, and anchoring hardware — no add-ons, no surprises.

01

The Legs

Four 2″ × 2″ × 3/16″ A36 hot-rolled angle iron legs. Full-length, no splice joints.

That's a heavier leg section than most blind towers in this price range. It's why a VisionX tower doesn't sway underfoot when you climb in.

A36 is the structural steel grade used in commercial construction — building frames, bridges, trailer chassis. Strong, weldable, doesn't fail.

2″ × 2″ × 3/16″
A36 Hot-Rolled Angle Iron · Full-Length Legs
02

The Bracing

Cross-braced on every face with 1½″ × 1½″ × 3/16″ A36 hot-rolled angle iron. Multiple cross-braces per face — not just an X.

The brace pattern sheds wind and load triangularly into the legs. That's what lets the tower stand up to weather without skinning the bracing or bending the legs.

1½″ × 1½″ × 3/16″
Cross-Bracing · Every Face · Multiple Braces
03

The Base & Porch

Base frame is the same 2×2×3/16 hot-rolled angle, built as a complete welded box with reinforced corners.

Porch deck: 4″ × 1½″ 14-gauge Cee purlin — a structural channel section, not flat plate or expanded metal. Runs the full perimeter.

Railing: 1″ square tube welded into the base frame.

Porch and railing are included on every VisionX tower. No "porch packages." No "railing upgrade." Complete.

Tower porch and railing
04

Steps & Ladder

Dual-rail ladder steps share the same 4″ × 1½″ 14-gauge Cee purlin construction as the porch deck. Every step is the full width of the ladder — no narrow rungs to miss in the dark.

Welded rail-to-step, no fasteners, no rattle. Stable underfoot whether you're climbing in with a rifle or hauling out a buck.

Standard equipment on every tower. Not an "add-on."

Dual-rail ladder steps
05

The Foot Pads

Each leg terminates in a 3/16″ × 3″ hot-rolled steel foot pad, welded flat to the bottom of the leg and pre-drilled for anchoring.

Spreads the load across a wider footprint and gives you a fixed pattern to bolt or stake the tower to bare ground, a poured pad, or a treated timber pad.

3/16″ × 3″
Hot-Rolled Steel Foot Pad · Pre-Drilled
06

Anchoring

How a tower is anchored is the difference between one still standing after a Texas storm and one that's not.

Standard: 18- to 24-inch driven steel ground stakes through each foot pad. Depth depends on soil — short for caliche, long for sandy pasture.

For maximum holdout, add a screw-in earth anchor in the center of the footprint with steel cable to the underside of the frame. That center tie-down stops any uplift before it starts.

For permanent installs, the foot pads accept anchor bolts into a poured concrete pad.

75 mph
Wind-Tested Holdout · Straight-Line & Tornado-Force Proven
VisionX towers anchored this way have stayed standing through 75-mph straight-line winds and tornado-force events. That's the kind of proof you can't manufacture in a brochure.

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