what do you do

[sivart33]

This is more of the west side hunters, when sitting at your stand or in bush or where ever you wait, I normaly sit on a small area with a lot of traffic, abd was wonder what people do while waiting for animals to come through the area? 

I normally look around, glass if I can l, then ill check weather on my phone, watch wind, check forums, while still looking around and listening.  I tend to hear the animal coming through the brush before I see it. But ya wondering what other people do while waiting either till prime time or just when you just get into and need anything close to decide the noise you may have made was nothing? 

Cause sometimes sitting in a stand for 4 hours of nothing but squirls does get a tad boaring

[BlackRidge]

...are you out there now?

I notice you posted from your phone

[sivart33]

No at work, doing drywall taping/mudding, the one thing I hate like no other

[Skyvalhunter]

Well get up that tree and do some hunting!!

[Angus]

I've read books and played poker on the kids Nintendo DS while sitting in a stand. Plan on finishing a Clancy book tomorrow if not inturrupted by elk  .

[wapiti hunter2]

WOW.  When I hunt, I hunt.  No phone, no book, no nothing.  Cell phone stays home or in camp.  I think about a lot of things but I don't allow any outside distractions.   I have been known to fall asleep on occasion though.

[vandeman17]

WOW.  When I hunt, I hunt.  No phone, no book, no nothing.  Cell phone stays home or in camp.  I think about a lot of things but I don't allow any outside distractions.   I have been known to fall asleep on occasion though.

I second that. When I am out there I am hunting and nothing else, well besides the occasional cat nap when I can't fight off sleep any longer. 

[rasbo]

sit and listen,and enjoy the time away from media and electronics

[wildmanoutdoors]

Im with Rasbo. I sit and listen. When and if it gets too boring then I get up and still hunt to my next location. I love still hunting better than sittin. but there is a time for both so I use both to break up the day. I like sitting from 11 to 2 near prospective bedding areas as thats when the amimals can get up and pee, poop, change locations for wind ect. Before settling down again until its time to venture to water, feed ect.
If its say 2 pm or so and I have a few until the evening prime time I still hunt per say but I try to unlock more clues as to were they go, what there doing, were they bed, ect. And I usaually bring a nice quiet bag to gather chantrelles during this time.

I have a hard time passing up fresh Chantrelles. Lol. Nothing better with some Loin or Backstrap. IMO.

[WSU]

I don't want phones, electronics, books, etc.  I personally feel that if I wanted to read a book, I may as well do it at home.  

[runamuk]

well last time I sat and had a nice long talk with an owl for about an hour and half until my ass and legs lost all feeling.....actualy mostly I stared at the owl in between glassing and listening.....glassing in the jungle is really not the funnest...my cell phone just becomes a rather complex clock when I go into the woods  I call it clock mode it is a step above paperweight mode

[Angus]

If I didn't have something to do or read I would doze off (admit it, many of you do catch some zzzz's) I've got alot better chance of seeing/hearing something then you do when your sleeping. Last deer I shot I put down my STS, made about a 30 yard crawl and let the arrow fly. May not work for you, works ok for me
Most of my stand hunting is in the afternoon/evening, alot of times I'll be in my stand 3 or 4 hours before dark with not alot of hope of seeing much till the last hour. Highly doubt I've missed anything finding other ways of killing a little time.

[Axle]

I keep moving. Don't want to get rusted to something and have a hard time breaking loose from it.

[Jeffrey]

Sometimes uncomfortable, but I am in the standing position in my treestand 95 percent of the time.  I have lost opportunities to kill a nice animal because of movement preparing to shoot my bow.  I now have a bow holster that is strapped to my leg which keeps the bow in the almost perfect draw position.  I remember the days when I used to "hear" them coming in...now I have to rely mostly on sight.

[Pathfinder101]

This is a picture of me in my last deer stand (I caught this guy about to poach a groundsquirrel, so I took care of it). 

[Buckmark]

I start out is a great comfortable ready for anything position, until the first apendage falls asleep, then i spend the the rest of the time trying to move/shift to be comfortable without alerating aything to my presence, which usually results in me being in a very comfortable but very usless postion when game comes by, to which i hold still in pain waiting for my leg to fall off becasue it is dead asleep.

[ML_Hunter]

I almost always have my camera with me so I'll spend a lot of time taking photos and have even recorded my own hunting show of seeing nothing but squirrels, birds and even a porcupine.  I once slipped into a little spot on the edge of a clearing about a hour prior to first light, then around 11am and shot a doe about 50 yards away from me  .  That was a once in a live time type of thing and I still laugh about it.  I also find that chewing on sunflower seeds will help keep me up.  Just dont fall alsleep with a mouth full of seeds, thats a choking hazzard.

[wsucowboy]

I don't take my phone with me in the field. Don't need it and am afraid i'd loose the dang thing. Don't need to see the time. Up before the sun comes up and don't get back to camp till it goes down. I'll take a nap when i'm watching a clearing waiting for the animals to show up. Always been curious as to how many animals i miss when i'm napping. I'll also start to move to a different area even if it's just 50 yards away it gives me something to do. I want to get a camera and start taking pictures out in the field when i'm hunting. 

[halflife65]

This is a picture of me in my last deer stand (I caught this guy about to poach a groundsquirrel, so I took care of it). 

You must have had to use about 50 of those face paint containers.   

Bet that guy won't poach any more ground squirrels now that you've cut his nipple off. 

[BlackRidge]

sit and listen,and enjoy the time away from media and electronics

Thats what I tend to do, but if all else fails, theres always phone solitaire or chatting with peeps here

[Pathfinder101]

This is a picture of me in my last deer stand (I caught this guy about to poach a groundsquirrel, so I took care of it). 

You must have had to use about 50 of those face paint containers.   

Bet that guy won't poach any more ground squirrels now that you've cut his nipple off. 

It's actually feces (doubles as cover scent).  And I cut off his nipple to disarm him.  He had a squirrel gun hanging off his nipple ring....

[Woodchuck]

And the newest YAR nominee is...............Pathfinder101 

[runamuk]

And the newest YAR nominee is...............Pathfinder101 

I second that  pathfinder seems your in

[Pathfinder101]

Well, after 2 years of playing "awww-shucks" while the YARs banty back and forth about whether or not I am worthy of the title... I graciously accept your nomination and confirmation.
I would like to thank the Army for sufficiently twisting my mind to the point where nothing that comes out of it doesn't offend someone.
I would like to thank my talent coach, my voice coach, my dance coach, my makeup team, my personal trainer, my agent and of course all the "little people" that helped me on the way up (and by little people, I am of course referring to the stars of midget porn).
I would like to thank everyone up at elk camp, for putting the finishing touches on me in final preparation for my nomination.  I will never forget you all down there, still stuck within the confines of the non-YAR.
And last but not least, I would like to thank "The Academy" for my nomination and confirmation (The "Academy" being of course, JimKD8
and Runamuk). 
I am looking forward to meeting with the YAR Godfather in his office and being "made" (and if there is plastic on the floor when I get there, I am %$#! outta there..).

OK, enough acceptance speech.  I need a title...  (I am sooooo friggin' excited....I don't have to "hold back" anymore....)

[carpsniperg2]

welcome to the brother and sisiter hood, of the "special" chosen few

[runamuk]

Oh dear what have we done...I fear there may not be enough tinfoil in the universe 

[rasbo]

we dub thee....The Chosen YAR

[Woodchuck]

and the Godfather has spoken, it is so 

[Pathfinder101]

I humbly and graciously accept the Title of Chosen YAR.

I was going to go with Genghis YAR.  But I like Chosen YAR.
(...and I don't want to choose my own name, then have to go talk to the Godfather and get the "...you come to me after this thing is already done..." speech, that ends up with me getting kissed on the cheek and then buried on some farm in upstate New York...)

[Woodchuck]

and that my friend is what we think of when bored in our stands


had to get that in on this thread, didnt want to be accused of being a "jacker" 

[runamuk]

you all need help.... wow...princess is impressed or shocked or ..well princess is..we can just go with that for now

[Pathfinder101]

didnt want to be accused of being a "jacker" 

Jim, I appreciate you giving me such an easy target there, but I assure you it is not necessary.  Thanks all the same.  I'll pass, and let some neophyte handle the "jacker" comment.  Too easy for a true YAR.  Like shooting a high fence buck...

[carpsniperg2]

Oh dear what have we done...I fear there may not be enough tinfoil in the universe 

i hear the dollar store is having a sale everything is a dollar maybe if we pool are money we can make it threw

[runamuk]

Oh dear what have we done...I fear there may not be enough tinfoil in the universe 

i hear the dollar store is having a sale everything is a dollar maybe if we pool are money we can make it threw

not our dollar store they are now the 1.20 store due to the economy 

what was the original subject...oh yeah what people do when supposedly hunting.....it appears there is a whole lot of goofing off and sleeping happening..... I mostly day dream while my ass goes numb...still trying to figure out just how this is fun 

[Huntbear]

Wow, how did I as the Jester miss this thread? 

Ok, now for my    What is the Chosen YAR chosen for?      After all, he is the one that is talking about being covered in feces as a cover scent.   

[halflife65]

Congratulations for being sufficiently disgusting to be admitted into YAR!  That's quite an accomplishment.  I think I can smell your cover scent from here.

[runamuk]

didnt want to be accused of being a "jacker" 

Jim, I appreciate you giving me such an easy target there, but I assure you it is not necessary.  Thanks all the same.  I'll pass, and let some neophyte handle the "jacker" comment.  Too easy for a true YAR.  Like shooting a high fence buck...

actually there are multiple jackers of this poor thread...the thing has been highjacked, lowjacked most definitely thread jacked and then sent to yardom......poor poor threads awful seeing them get abused like this

[Pathfinder101]

In that case, I think this is about 2 pages overdue....

 

[PolarBear]

WOW.  When I hunt, I hunt.  No phone, no book, no nothing.  Cell phone stays home or in camp.  I think about a lot of things but I don't allow any outside distractions.   I have been known to fall asleep on occasion though.