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big70tom

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I need your Help guys. Im the father of 6 girls. I play with knives because at home Im surrounded by hairbrushes, Tampons, hair "DILLY'S" , blah blah blah blah......:( Anyway a good cheap way to vacation is to go camping for a week. At the beach or in the mountains. Im in the market for a tent, a BIG tent!!! Im looking at this from Cabellas
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Cabela's XTP Xtreme Teepee $449

or this

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Coleman® Legacy Weathermaster Tent
$299

I need a Good tent thats not goin to rip, or tear. PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!
 
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My buddy had one built to fit about a 10 man hunting/fishing party-basic canvas tent very similar to that, with a coinciding woodburning stove for heat and cooking purposes. He sold it for like 200 bucks. I think he had it made for less than a thousand...
 
Get several smaller tents. You just don't need all that humanity in one shelter. :)
 
I've got the Big Horn III from Cabela's and it is awesome. No center pole like most tents and you can put a wood burning stove in it too. Be sure to get the vestibule too. This tent will last a lifetime if taken care of.
 
One advantage of a tent with a straight ridge line (sorta like a house) is that you can rig a cheap poly tarp to create a double roof. This shades the actual tent roof so it doesn't turn into a radiant heater in sunny weather. Protects the tent roof from UV damage and also prevents spray-through in heavy rain if you get all traditional and buy a cotton canvas tent.

Sanity may be better served by smaller "bedroom" tents for kids, as Kismet suggests. Noise increases geometrically with number of occupants. One big tent doesn't allow for much privacy.

You might want a dining fly for safer cooking and added shade space at lower cost/foot that a tent.
 
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