What do you do to pass the time while sitting in your stand ?
09-06-2003, 08:19 PM
#32
Join Date: Aug 2003
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Posts: 141
RE: What do you do to pass the time while sitting in your stand ?
Getting in a stand for me is being able to get away and relax. It' s a chance and time to relax and just let my mind drift. If I am hunting in the evening, my heart and mind starts racing as it starts to get closer to the time the deer start to move. Since we are allowed to bait, I will watch the birds, squirrels, turkeys, coons or whatever come to the corn pile. If I am hunting one of my food plots, I still like to watch whatever nature shows up to eat the clover and beans etc... It also gives me a chance to watch the shadows as the sun starts to rise or fall and think about better placment of my stands. Deer huntind..........ain' t it great!! 
09-07-2003, 01:19 PM
#33
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Posts: 2,584
RE: What do you do to pass the time while sitting in your stand ?
Talk to myself,pray,relax, enjoy the the tranquility and not having kids running around drawing on me or pooring pop in my food etc. Course i hope that kid hunts with me in a few years 
09-07-2003, 07:46 PM
#35
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Western MO
Posts: 321
RE: What do you do to pass the time while sitting in your stand ?
Read ok or write in my planning book the things s I need to do to improve the habitat, plan furniture I want to build, and glass and look a lot. I eat pecans...wont bother the deer since we ahve so many native pecan trees.
If i had to give up coffee, Id have to stop hunting.
If i had to give up coffee, Id have to stop hunting.
09-08-2003, 06:59 AM
#36
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 225
RE: What do you do to pass the time while sitting in your stand ?
Nothing, focus on how I' m going to shoot the next deer that walks my way.
But I do occassionally (ok ALOT) think about life in general, how I got where I' m at, my kids, my wife, the rest of my family, the future, the past, etc etc.
But I do occassionally (ok ALOT) think about life in general, how I got where I' m at, my kids, my wife, the rest of my family, the future, the past, etc etc.
09-08-2003, 03:58 PM
#37
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hebron IN USA
Posts: 28
RE: What do you do to pass the time while sitting in your stand ?
I dream of one day seeing a buck mate with a doe and conceive it' s offspring right in front of my eyes and then getting the chance to fill my doe tag.
10-08-2003, 08:06 PM
#38
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Elcho and GB Sconny
Posts: 166
RE: What do you do to pass the time while sitting in your stand ?
I like to read books about hunting, being only 14 yrs old there is so much for me to learn. i also love to write poetry, i write about waiting, seeing a buck, (something that has only happened once) and after shooting a deer. I also thank God for every minute i spend hunting, i know there are many people who will never be as content as i am when i am hunting and i pity them.
10-09-2003, 06:52 AM
#39
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Too close to Chicago
Posts: 3,337
RE: What do you do to pass the time while sitting in your stand ?
I watch for deer.
You' ve got to take mental breaks once in a while and let your mind wander, but I just can' t stand to let a deer get within 40 yards without seeing them first.
You' ve got to take mental breaks once in a while and let your mind wander, but I just can' t stand to let a deer get within 40 yards without seeing them first.
10-09-2003, 11:29 AM
#40
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 1,932
RE: What do you do to pass the time while sitting in your stand ?
Besides freezeing my butt off I watch nature. It is sort of fun watching the squriiels gather nuts and play. I dream of that nice buck walking by any mintue. I do fall a sleep a lot of the time. The best part of sitting in a stand or in a blind is watching the sun rise and set. It just make you thank God for what he has given you. If things are not going so great in your life. It just makes you think things would be a lot worse. Life is to short enjoy those great times sitting out in the woods enjoying nature. we just make to much out of life we make it so complex for ourselves.