I saw a post in the deer hunting forum with someone using an mp3 player in his stand to keep himself occupied. I have an ipod nano and I'm wondering if i should take it this year, only listen to one earbud, and put the volume down just low enough to hear the music. I can sit on stand all day from 5:00 am to when it gets dark, and just take everything in....without getting bored...but I think the music would help me pass time better. How many of you do this already?

ive thought about tryin it this year doesnt sound like a bad idea and atleast can use it til you can see to shoot

i like to lisen to everything because the buck i shot last year i heard him way before i saw him but if you only put in one earbud and turn your music down then i would lisen to it.

I can see how that would be a way to pass time. But, it wouldnt be for me. The reason you go to the woods is to listen to nature, enjoy everything around you. Not to listen to music and wait for something to shoot at. But i have some friends that it would benefit them to have one so they could stay on stand longer.

I personally like to direct all my attention to my surroundings while I'm hunting. Hearing one twig break could mean all the difference in the world.

That wouldn't be hunting to me.

I push the envelope by taking a book and reading it on stand. However, I hunt all day everytime I head to the woods. After the first six hours you need something to occupy your mind.

Listening to music while on stand will never be something I do though.

even though i take my i-pod everywhere with me, that'd be the last place id take it. Not only would your full attention be diverted, but it wouldn't be like hutning. Nothin' against yall, but i think that the hunting world/community is getting to technologically advanced. ohh well thats my opinion, have a nice day...

-buckoff15

ditto

i think it's alright

i wouldnt listen to the music in my car if it was hunting. i am a tradiionalist.i think that tree stands are to technologically advanced for me.this my be against every hunters code book, but i would just climb a treee with an unloaded and opened action rifle.either that or hunker down in thick brush.i dont think any kind of "sit on my(fill in in the blank)" hunting is for me,though(no offense intended).but it just seems like peole who sit in an office would wnt to see all of nature,not just the animal there hunting.