RE: What do you take to the stand with you?
That's an awful lot of stuff everyone brings!! With the amount of deer around here, I usually just bring a pillow...sometimes a magazine.
I hunt only about a 1/2 mile from my parents house, so I usually leave a lot in the truck. But I have what I'm wearing, binocs, grunt & bleat, and a pair of knives. That's usually it. I stay pretty warm because I'm not a sissy like everyone else...er, I mean, good circulation. lol. I bring just enough to hunt and gut with. That's it.
...oh, and I always have my phone...JIC