Well I enjoy a nice peaceful nap in the deer woods on a sunny day. Just like scouting for a good spot to deer hunt learning the prime time for a nap is also important. I have found at my UP deer camp just about any time was fine between 10 AM to 4 PM. Since the pressure is so lite the deer move before 10 to a bedding area and after 4 to a feeding area.


Here at home where there is a lot of pressure for the first week nap time is different. between 2 pm and 4 pm works best. other hunters get bored and cold so are up and moving about after about 8:30 9:00 am then they go in for dinner and come back out, about 2 they all sleep dinner off and by 4 deer are going to feeding areas or getting kicked out by those who were to bored to sit still.


I wrote a story about taking my middle sister deer hunting her first time. A little bit of it.

If I remember correctly she was 14 years old so that made it November 1970 when I took her out one morning deer hunting. We got to my ruff thrown together brush pile deer blind just as it was getting light enough to see plus be a legal shooting hour. She sat for a while but being a fidgety person to begin with she was soon bored and asked me how I could sit so still in the blind so long day after day of deer hunting.
So I asked her what she had seen since we got in the blind. She said some birds that had flew by and that was it. I then pointed to the leaves on the ground I had kicked in a pile around the edge of the blind and asked if she had seen anything in that area. She said no she never saw a thing. I then told her to watch close, soon a little mouse poked its nose out of the leaf pile and ran to a different pile. I pointed out the clouds in the sky and told her what shape I thought some were. Soon she was telling me about what she thought the clouds looked like. Wasn’t long after that I asked if she had seen any deer since she got to the blind, She said no.
She was surprised when I pointed across the swale to the east facing hill side and said there were 5 does laying there. I had seen two of them get up and stretch then lay back down earlier. Wasn’t long after that she is telling me about the different birds in the different trees and such, till it was time to leave for dinner at home.
I am not sure just when she did start hunting alone, I know she had got a Savage 99C, 308. I believe she was with Rob (my brother) & I when she finally shot her first deer a nice buck about 6 days into the season.


Al