Wondering if any of you have this tent,and if so what you think of it.Its a Cabelas guide type tent.Thinking of getting one in a couple months.Has a spot for a wood stove.Think im gonna get the Alpine Camp Chef stove for it.Any of you have reviews on it?Mainly just for camping but also maybe for some late season hunting.

Brother bought the same tent. We use it for hunting. We both like it a lot. There is the vestibule you can get for it too so far we haven't used that yet.Been through some good wind with it too no problem. So yea it's a good tent.

Thanks,good to hear.Its pricey,but im gonna get the vestibule with the tent too.Think it adds like another 8 or 10 feet.

These tents are great. Was in mine a few years ago trapping the Missouri river. Rained for three days. River came up 22 feet. Nothing inside got even damp. Buy the roof protector to run a stove. Who ever designed this thing has spent a lot of time in tents. No need for a tarp over the top or a trench to drain water from the sides. Snow slides right off and wont sag the roof. You can run yourself out when its bad cold outside by getting carried away with the wood stove. Like all tents when the fire goes out it gets cold quick though. If your going to be in it for more than a few days with more than two people get a bigger one for winter camping with a wood stove. There is enough room for an extended trip with two people but it will be bad crowded with more than that.

Thanks Danny,good to hear.I imagine me and my son are the only ones in my house that are gonna brave any winter camping.What kinda stove are you using there?And yes i planned to definitely get the roof spark cover.

Stove is home made from a 50 gallon steel barrel. Got the idea from white17. Door is made from the cutout at the bottom. Used the pieces of the ring you fasten the lid on with to strengthen the door. Hinge is a piece of pipe and 3/8 round stock. The lid gets shoved up inside and becomes the bottom of the fire box. Painted it black with spray on stove paint.

I don't have an Alaknak but have a Bighorn III tent that has the same material. Had mine for 10 years now and only dings in the material are a few spark holes. I use a 4 dog stove and it'll cook you out of there if you want it to. Mine gets used during October and November in either North Dakota or the mountains someplace. I also have the appropriate vestibule and do all the cooking in that. Really like the vestibule. Good luck!

Mine leaks if it rains. If it is humid during summer camping, you feel it much wo rose than in a nylon tent.

Sure wish they had a rain fly for these tents.

Mudtracker buy some seam sealer and put it on all of them. Seam sealer is recommended by Cabela's. I put mine up in the yard before I used it and applied the sealer. Gets another dose every year before use.

Do you do the whole roof? Cause mine doesn't just leak at the seams. What product are you using?

In the right conditions it does not breath and rains inside sold mine years ago

I read that when it gets cold out and guys shut up all the vents is when it gets the condensation inside.Said you still need some open vents but if you use the woodstove then the condensation didnt build up.Just what i read,i dont know.

I haven't had condensation trouble. There are steep flaps over the windows in the sides. You can leave windows open when its raining. There are vents in the roof and over the door that can not be closed to prevent asphyxiation when using a stove. If you use the vestibule air flow through the over the door vent can be impeded. There are windows, big ones, in the roof with mesh to keep out bugs you can open in dry weather. There is a mesh door also you can leave open excluding bugs. Wind direction will determine if it can be open in the rain. Cabela's does recommend a wood stove over propane for heat due to condensation inherent with propane.




The door vent is under the overhang. The roof vents are at the peak. You can see one of the roof windows (closed) in the second picture I posted with a side window and the overhang.

That's been my experience.

The one I have the roof vents and the door vents do not close. At -15 I had too big a fire and had to open the door some. Biggest problem I have when its cold is wood consumption. Its a tent. No insulation. If the fire burns down it gets cold. Plan on laying in a lot of it.

Before I forget I put a spark arrester in the stove pipe. Helps a bunch. Every couple days though you need to pop it off and knock the soot off the baffle. Got real smoky the first time I used it after a few days. Took me a bit to figure out the problem. Those baffles will plug up and the stove wont draft.

I bought one in 2004 and have used it quite a bit. I got the roof protector, floor cover and the vestabule. In bad weather, stacked our wood in the vestibule. As Danny said it’s a great 2 man tent for extended stays. 2 cots a wood stove and a card table fill it up pretty good. We always leave 2 of the side vents half open and have never have an issue with condensation.

danny clifton >>>> Nice stove. Is that a canvas material you have on your tent?

I'm not sure of the brand of wall tents that I have stayed in but I have spent many nights in wall tents. Been through every kind of adverse weather you can think of and they all have done a great job. The canvas material was always treated every other year or so. We used a weed sprayer and applied the water proofing fire application.

Do they make one bigger ? I have a Montana canvas 16 x 20 and sometimes it's not big enough

I owned that one and the big one. They work great.
I rarely get the sweating problem as we tend to run the wood stove so it's minimal if it does happen. The cons are that it does not deal with snowload very well. Have had them collapse and tear more then once. Another problem is the uv beats them up and makes brittle. That's not a problem if only using it for short periods but if you tend to use it for weeks at a time it will take its toll