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I can't tell you how many deer I have heard first before I first saw them. One of the reasons I love hunting is to be outside and see and hear everything going on around me. I have been known to bring a book or pocket video game (sound muted) with me into the woods, but I make sure I look up every30secondsand try to hear everything around me while my head is down.

What ever makes you happy though. If time gets a little slow for ya, do what you have to in order to pass the time. I'd just be ready, you never knowwhen the faint rattling of antlers, agrunt or a gun shot from ablind a few hundred yards away could clueyou in on where a monster buck is out of view. The only reason I spotted the biggest buck i've ever seen this year was from a faint grunt that I never would have heard with head phones on (of course I already shot my buck earkier that day!)

If you do bring it out, I'd put it in a thick wool sock in and outof the woods. You wouldn'twant your binoculars or knifescratching it up.