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).