Favorite Music before a hunt
 

I'm just curious. What do you listen to before you get to where you are going to hunt?
For deer hunting I like country....George Strait or Hank Jr.
Hog hunting, I have to go with Van Halen.
Any thoughts?

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When im driving to and from the stand Im listening to country music. Like Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, George Strait and countless others. I think nothing beats country music when crusin around in the woods with your truck.

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There's nothing like a dose of death metal (Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, etc..) to get me going at 5:00 in the morning. Gets the old adrenaline pumping!!

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How about Wagner's "Flight of the Valkyrie" from the Ring of the Nibellungen? You know, the music they blasted from the helicopters in "Apocalypse Now" when they flew in low over the waves and attacked the village?

Seriously, I like to listen to the Dixie Chicks "Wide Open Spaces" CD.

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I always listen to the Who when i go duck hunting. I dunno why, just like them i guess. When I go deer hunting I usually listen to Smash Mouth. I'm kinda weird i guess.

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Bow Hunting it has to be: Ted Nugent's "Old Fred Bear", "Great White Buffalo" & then Bocefus "Country Boy Can Survive". [8D]

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I'll second the Ted Nugent. "Fred Bear" is a must, and I often find myself singing it softly while I'm on my tree stand. But, "I Just Wanna Go Hunting" is my fav!

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jonny cash.

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Waylon

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I really don't need to or want to listen to anything in particular, although there could be some music playing in the truck if were traveling to hunting ground. It would probobly be country.

I'm more focused on the thrill I get and solitude that I share with my boys, hunting partners and good old Mother Nature. (Don't tell her I called her old!)

Just give me some good fresh air and I'm fine.

Uncle Matt (in IL)

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Country

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Chris Ledoux and country

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a little zeppelin to get me going!!!

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Bob Dylan, "Blood on the Tracks". Maybe that's just wishful thinking.

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I would have to agree with matt on this one. I would rather not listen to anything. Depending on the music it can be distracting. Just some peace and quite will do just fine.

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Rock and Roll!

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How bout some Lynyrd Skynyrd!!! Then when I get out of the truck I`m in huntin mode, with a good tune in my head for the rest of the day. There is nothing that I hate more that getting in my treestand and having a song in my head, that I had heard last on the radio, that I absolutely cant stand.It will stay in my head all day. Drives me BONKERS!!

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Trace Adkins or Hank Jr.

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TED NUGENT HUNT MUSIC CD! the 5 string bass guitar in the sunrise song is just powerful and eerie. gets me pumped. i just try not to play it too loud so my ears are ringing in the stand;)

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HAHAHA I had to laugh at the one answer..."Flight of the Valkrye"


LOL......thats just too darn funny man. I could picture coming in over a food plot in a huey hog....the door gunner yelling "get some..GET SOME"

"Big Buck six", this is "deer-thrust seven", we have deer in the field, repeat, deer in the field.


HAHAHAHAA


Anyways....my answer is.....It depends.

I LOVE country music, so its usually that. Tim Mcgraw, Kenny Chesney, George Strait etc.

Johnny Cash is another great one.

Dont laugh, but John Denver is a favorite of mine too. Thats good "coming home" music. When you have nothing in the truck bed, but you're happy you got to spend the day in the woods. Luckily Im such a great hunter, I never come home empty handed.....LOL.....yeah right!

Sometimes I like there to be silence when driving there though....I like to think about the game-plan, and get in the mood for sitting motionless for 12 hours.

Sometimes on the way home its the same thing...just reflect on the day with NO noise.

Enjoy---Matt:)

Happy Easter!:)

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Well i"m a christian now but before that in my wild days it was Aero Smith, Frank Zappa, Skynard and zz Top

Now it's what ever is on the Christian radio at 4:00 Am Some change uh
Chuck

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Country

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All 80's rock and all Country Rockfrom the 90's.

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Classical. Vivaldi and Mozart. That or no sound at all.

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Took last few deer when Tobey Kieth was playing when I last got out of the vehicle.

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I'm probably in the minority here, but I prefer an ecclictic mix of gangster rap, metal, country, classic rock, and techno. I made a hunting CD with my gangster anthems and whatever other weird music that gets me all wound up. Here's the playlist from my last one:

Nate Dogg and Warren G - Regulate
Alabama - Mountain Music
Hank Jr. - Family Tradition
LL Cool J - I shot ya
Dre - Natural Born Killaz
Tracy Byrd - Lifestyles of the Not So Rich & Famous
Puff Daddy - Victory
Maroon 5 - Sunday Morning
Hank Jr. - Country Boy Can Survive
Tupac - California Love
Darude - Sandstorm
Jack Johnson - Sitting Waiting Wishing
Metallica - Hero of the Day
Dave Matthews - Where are you going
Third Eye Blind - Motorcycle Drive By
Bowling for Soup - 1985
Nelly - Country Grammar
Trick Daddy - Let's Go

I don't drink coffee, so my music is my caffeine. It's about an hour drive to my hunting spots, so I can clear a whole cd out one-way. Good music fresh in your head is a must if you're gonna sit in a treestand staring at the ground for 12 hours, IMHO.

I started taking my walkman and listening to college football games between 12 and 5 on Saturdays. Those earbuds are awesome, and you can still hear the deer coming just as if your ear wasn't plugged.

This was a pretty good CD, and any of y'all can feel free to pirate my playlist at your leisure.

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I like silence before I hunt. My hearing sucks anyway from too much heavy metal and firing mortars when I was younger. If I was trying to get my adrenaline up, I would listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio on vocals singing Master of Insanity or Neon Knights.

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the almighty G.W.A.R.

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Guajira Guantanamera!

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Chuck I didn't know Christians couldn't listen too Aerosmith and Skynyrd (I can't stand that crazy Zappa so I left him out)?

If you guys REALLY want to hear a true outdoorsman's song (and perhaps even more improtantly, we Christians) then you MUST get a copy of Skynyrds song: "All I can do is write about it"

Lyrics:
Well this life that I live, has took me everywhere, there aint no place I aint ever gone.
Well its kinda like the sayin that youve heard so many times, well there just aint no place like home.

Did you ever see a she gator protect her young? Or a fish in a river swimmin free? Did you ever see the beauty of the hills of Carolina or the sweetness of the grass in Tennessee?

And Lord I cant make any changes. All I can do is write em in a song. Yes but I can see the concrete a slowly creepin, Lord take me and mine before that comes!

Do ya like to see a mountain stream a flowin? Do ya like to see a young un with his dog? Did ya ever stop to think about well tha air ya breathin? Well ya better listen too my song.

Lord I cant make any changes. All I can do is write em in a song. Yes but I can see the concrete a slowly creepin, Lord take me and mine before that comes.

Im not tryin to put down no big city. But the things they write about us are just a bore. Well you can take a boy out of ol Dixieland Lord but youll never take ol Dixie from tha boy.

And Lord I cant make any changes, All I can do is write em in a song. Yes but I can see the concrete a slowly creepin, Lord take me and mine before that comes.

I said I can see the concrete a slowly creepin, Lord take me and mine before that comes!

:)
If you have never heard that "southern masterpiece" then folks you are missin it! The rythym and piano in this one will bring tears too your eyes. Truly one of Skynyrds greatest that wasnt plastered about because it wasnt in your face or played at 900decibles.

I am a lover of music. I might have Waylon (my personal favorite) on one minute and then I might follow him up with Luciano Pavarroti and back that up with AC/DC. So you never know what you gonna get with me, other than a good time! ;)

Its kinda been ironic, the last two years EXACTLY on opening morning of MO turkey season on the same station on the same stretch of county highway in southern MO the old song "RO HO" has come on. My father-in-law and I laughed the first time and within an hour a bird was as dead as "RO HO" was in the song. But after it happened lastyear we kinda looked at eachother funny. And YEP again a bird was dead within an hour!

EERY,
RA

ps
Tim Fagraw and Kenney "da midget" Chesney... country singers? LMAO those guys are as "pop" as Elton John and Cher. Gimme John "DA MAN" Cash and Waylon Jennings anyday! THAT is country...

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The true hillbillies of country music........Waylon Jennings, and Montgomery Gentry!!!!!!

p.s. Hank Jr too!!!!

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Hey Mossy, you might be from MD, but you sound Dixie to me.
You should move down, CAUSE

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[:@] EEEk the Dixie Chicks [:'(]

How about a lil 50 cent

just kidding

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"country boy can survive"
"almost home"-craig morgan
"mud on tires" brad paisley
"ruff & ready" tracie adkins

That gets me fired up!!

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Pink Floyd's "Animals" album ,
it really sets the mood for me .

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Queensryche
Metallica
Tool

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Ralph Stanley.........................ole fashion bluegrass. Gets me all warmed up for chasing hogs all day. On opening day of DEER season it's the Black Hawk Down soundtrack.

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This here Christian is prone to wonder. From 1971- 1976 I was a pretty mixed up kid. I hitch- hiked to Jacksonville to see Skynard . They didn't arrive because of the plane crash. Instead Jethro Tull played. Since then I'm a Christian and as I read it What soever I do should be done to the glory of God. I don't see how the Needle and the Spoon or Give me Three Steps can give glory to God. Not only that ,I'm a firm believer in the verse that says "as a man thinks so he is" The mind of man makes that man. I try to guard my mind. One good Skynard song doesn't justify the others. I've tried to listen to that stuff before and it's not long and I want to pick up my old habits.
Chuck

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I usually listen to some classic rock:

Zepplin
AC/DC
Floyd
ZZ Top
Skynyrd
Aerosmith

Gets me in the mood for a nice hunt

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Chuck7 I don't think anyone ever accused Ronnie Van Zant of being like one of the Blackwood Brothers, BUT the guy knew right from wrong and was raised a southern Christian.

As for "Needle and the spoon" you either need to go back and listen too it or you completely missed the original point of the song. It was their ANTI-DRUG song during a time (mid 70s) when drugs were truly percieved as cool and usually sang about with reverance and encouragement too try by many other artists.

Some lyrics:
The chorus itself was: "Quit the needle, Quit the spoon. Quit the trip too the moon."

other lines were: "... I've seen alot of people who thought they were cool. But then again Lord I've seen alot of fools. Well, I hope you people, Lord can hear what I say. You'll have your chance to hit it someday..."

"Dont mess with the needle or a spoon or any trip too the moon. It'll take you away!"

"Lord their gonna bury you boy. Don't mess with the needle... now I know, I know, I know."

The song was a STRONG encouragement to quit for those already on them and to discourage others from ever beginning. The opening lines of the song "Thirty days Lord and thirty nights, I'm comin home on an airplane flight. Mama waitin at the ticket line. Tell me son why do you stand there cryin? ... I've been feelin so sick and tired. Got to get better Lord before I die. Seven doctors couldn't help my head, they said you better quit son before you're dead!" was about coming home after a month in rehab. How many rockers ever (then, now, future) talk about rehab in a positive light? Some of the truest slackers in society are of the mindset that, "Rehab is for quitters"!!! [:@]

I'm NOT tryin to tell you that artists "good music" makes their "bad stuff" ok. But I just think that proper credit should be given too those artists that at least tried on occasion. As for the "bad stuff" I don't see where a song EVER makes a sane person act anyother way than what they normally would. To argue otherwise is to buy into those rediculous notions like the parents suing artists like Ozzy Ozbourne for their deadbeat kids whackin themselves supposedly after listening too music. I grew up on Waylon and Willie and by the time I was a teenager Hank Jr. was blarin his one night stands and whiskey bents allover radio. The music is great, but I STILL knew the subject was'nt proper. But IMHO that should'nt stop someone from enjoying music that makes their feet shuffle and encourages them to "let their hair down" if for only a few moments.

:)
RA