In a Nutshell:

This Guide Gear Big Boy Comfort Swivel Hunting Blind Chair is a sharp-looking, well-constructed chair, perfect for a hunting blind, but useful just about anywhere. Recommended for any outdoorsman weighing up to five hundred pounds. This chair will serve you well in almost any outdoor setting.
Value for the Money
Comfort
Brand Reliability*
Aesthetic Flexibility**

Overall Rating

4.1/5
* Brand Reliability is a measure of the strength and longevity of the brand, which by extension, is a measure of the level of support you can expect. ** While aesthetics is a matter of taste, Aesthetic Flexibility is a measure of how easily a given design would fit into a wide range of home or office décor schemes.

Benefits

  • Rugged and well-built
  • 500-pound weight capacity
  • Versatile

Drawbacks

  • Armrests lack padding
  • No onboard storage
Guide Gear Big Boy Comfort Swivel Hunting Blind Chair
Guide Gear Big Boy Comfort Swivel Hunting Blind Chair
4.1

Recommended For: Any outdoorsman weighing up to five hundred pounds. This chair will serve you well in almost any outdoor setting.

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Are you a hunter or a fan of the great outdoors? Do you weigh more than three hundred pounds? If so, you know what a challenge it can be to find good quality furniture built ruggedly enough to support your weight. 

That’s as true of simple dining chairs as it is of camp chairs and other outdoor gear. Most companies selling camping supplies make their equipment robust enough to support about three hundred pounds of user weight.

That’s great for most of the market, but if you weigh more than that, the number of options available drops off sharply. If that’s the boat you find yourself in, you will like what you read in this review. The Guide Gear Big Boy Comfort Swivel Hunting Blind Chair isn’t perfect, but it is very good, and we think you’ll be impressed.

In the following sections, we’ll cover everything this chair offers and tell you about its points of weakness so you’ve got all the information you need to decide if this is the camp chair you’ve been looking for. Let’s see if that sounds good to you and your interest is piqued. If you still want products from the same company, check out other Guide Gear camping chair reviews.

Key Features of Big Boy Comfort Swivel Hunting Blind Chair

At first glance, the Guide Gear Big Boy Comfort Swivel Hunting Blind chair looks much like a modified mesh office chair. It’s a fair comparison. The Big Boy is made of the same material, but the bottom half has been modified for the great outdoors. It’s handsome in a minimalist, no-nonsense way, and it collapses into a delightfully small package that, combined with the handy shoulder strap, makes it easy to pack in with you.

Chair Specifications

In terms of statistics, here are the basics:

  • Chair Dimensions: 28.5” x 26.2” x 10.5”
  • Seat Dimensions: 21” x 19”
  • Seat Height: 19”
  • Backrest Dimensions: 21” x 19”
  • Chair Weight: 20 pounds
  • Maximum Supported Weight: 500 pounds
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These good numbers make the chair especially well-suited to big and tall users. The seat dimensions are superb, and the seat height is just about perfect at 19”, though if you’re shorter and weigh more than 300 pounds, you’ll probably want something with a slightly lower seat.

Steel Frame

Most of the chair’s weight is tied up in the steel frame. At twenty pounds, the Big Boy Comfort Swivel Hunting Blind chair is not the heaviest camp chair on the market, but if you are packing a lot of other gear in, or if you have an especially long hike to reach your campsite, the weight may become a bit of a problem. It won’t be an issue in most cases, but it bears having an honest conversation about your physical health, how far you’re going, and how much gear you’re planning to haul in with you.

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Great for Any Terrain

Another thing to mention here is the feet. The Big Boy’s wide “duck feet” make this a great chair for use on any terrain. If you set it up on soggy ground, the design of the feet will keep it from sinking too far into the muck, and on dry ground, they won’t impact the use or function of the chair in any way. It’s a small thing, but it’s very handy and has a nice design touch.

No Built-in Storage

We were a little disappointed that this chair does not have built-in storage. Fortunately, that is easy to fix with a bit of DIY engineering. A D-Ring attached to a mesh bag and clipped to one of the chair arms will give you instant storage without much effort. It’s a good, simple mod that will add even more to the chair’s utility.

Swivel Seat

Although nothing about the Guide Gear Big Boy Comfort Swivel Hunting Blind Chair is adjustable, the seat swivels 360 degrees, making it perfect for use in a hunting blind.

Breathable Mesh Material

As far as comfort is concerned, it has all the same advantages, since it’s built like mesh office chairs.

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The mesh is delightfully breathable, making sitting on it surprisingly comfortable even for extended periods, even in the absence of padding. This is one chair where padding would probably work against you.

Anything you put in the seat to provide padding may make it more comfortable, but it will also reduce the breathability, which makes it less comfortable. This results in what would amount to a push as the two factors work against each other.

Hard Plastic Armrests

The one point of weakness regarding comfort centers around the armrests. They’re…present. That’s about all you can say about them. The hard plastic is not too comfortable, but it’s not unbearable as long as you’re not actively leaning on it for extended periods.

If you don’t mind doing some DIY work, there’s an easy fix for that, though. Just buy a pool noodle at the dollar store, cut sections that match the length of the armrests, then cut a slit down one side of the armrest-length noodles so you can slip them onto the armrests, and you’re done. Instant padding if you need it.

No Assembly Required

As with most chairs of this type, no assembly is required. If you decide to order one, it will arrive at your door collapsed in a box. Just take it out, unfold it, and have a seat. That’s all there is to it.

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Pros and Cons of Big Boy Comfort Swivel Hunting Blind Chair

We like almost everything about the Guide Gear Big Boy Comfort Swivel Hunting Blind Chair. It’s rugged, well-built, and versatile, and we love the 500-pound weight capacity.

Three minor negatives associated with the model won’t be deal-breakers for most people but are worth keeping in mind before you commit to a purchase. They are:

  • The twenty-pound weight. For short hikes to your campsite, that’s fine, but if you have a long slog to make, it could be problematic.
  • The lack of padding on the armrests. Again, this isn’t the end of the world and has an easy workaround if you want to spend a few minutes rigging some padding.
  • The lack of onboard storage. We view this as the biggest of the three issues with the chair, but note that it, too, has a super simple workaround.

Final Thoughts: Guide Gear Big Boy Comfort Swivel Hunting Blind Chair Review

We like the Guide Gear Big Boy Comfort Swivel Hunting Blind chair. We’d love it if the company would add a bit of built-in storage and even minimally pad the armrests, but even in the absence of those things, this is a superb chair and good for use in just about any outdoor setting. We recommend it.

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