I chew nearly every time on stand unless I forget my chew. I do a lot of thinking while in stand, watch the squirrels and birds and various woods animals play. Watched a pair of Muskrats play for almost half an hour one morning on stand earlier this year, playing a little "cat and mouse" game underwater around a log, back under water, trying to "fake" each other out, etc. It made for one of my neatest mornings on stand because I'd only rarely ever seen Muskrats and that morning I got to observe 2 of them for an extended period of time.