Post-season activities?

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Roadking
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#41 Post by Roadking »

I find the older I get the closer to the ground I like to be. Though I have always taken all safety percausions and now even have lifelines in all trees I have always felt a little skittish up there. Also I like the ability as well to relax and stretch if needed without any fears. Oh ya and there's nothing like a little nap :lol: in a comfy chair, with both feet on the ground.

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#42 Post by Captainkirk »

Roadking wrote: Oh ya and there's nothing like a little nap :lol: in a comfy chair, with both feet on the ground.
Now, who would do that?!!! :shock: :?
OK, busted.... :lol:
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#43 Post by Roadking »

My hunting partner scolds me for napping. However it's weird my son has witness me napping (gun season a few years ago in leg double ladder stand). I awoke told him to get camera as I was getting ready to take a doe (there were 2, 15 yards from us). After I harvested her he said "I never heard or saw those and I was watching because you were snoozing, how did you know they were there?". Told him "I don't know but it happens quite often to me"??? They bring me luck? I don't know lol.

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#44 Post by Captainkirk »

Funny thing about napping...more than once I've awakened to find game within a few feet of me. Once it was a quail pecking seeds two feet from my boots. Another time is was two fawns browsing at six feet. They are probably thinking, "They're so cute when they're asleep!" :lol:
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#45 Post by Carpdaddy »

Okay evidently you guys don't snore like I do. I wake myself up sometimes! I would probably sound like a moose in rut or a bear that tried to sit on a steel trap!

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#46 Post by Shadowhntr »

Carpdaddy wrote:Okay evidently you guys don't snore like I do. I wake myself up sometimes! I would probably sound like a moose in rut or a bear that tried to sit on a steel trap!

:lol: :lol: :lol:


Ive nodded off up a tree in my Summit Aluminum Viper. That thing is so comfy, safe, and stable....its easy to do.

I remember well one particular hunt that happened during the "learning how to even see a deer" phase. I sat ground hunting next to a huge sycamore along a creek. The longer I sat, the more weary and tired I became. Finally I just curled up on the ground and within minutes fell asleep. I woke up almost 2 hours later. After I regained my wits, I started thinking and got disgusted at myself and the situation of rarely seeing deer. I finally asked myself just what the heck I was doing out in the deer woods sleeping. If that was allthe more confident I was, why in heck bed down by a creek in the cold.....I had a warm bed at home. So I got up and left for home....and I didnt even get sleepy. Lol.
Since then, (20+ years ago) Ive nooded off a few seconds at a time unintentionally, but never fell fast asleep again while deer hunting. Heck at a minimum Id go back to the truck where its warm and comfy first...lol!
However I HAVE fell asleep in my Double Bull waiting on turkeys. I was hoping like heck the gobble would wake me up....lol!
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#47 Post by Roadking »

Good 'Naps" are part of hunting. I can now tell my hunting partner he's been doing it all wrong by staying awake ALL these years, lol.

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#48 Post by Captainkirk »

Roadking wrote:Good 'Naps" are part of hunting. I can now tell my hunting partner he's been doing it all wrong by staying awake ALL these years, lol.
It's tradition, Bill. If you never nodded off...even for a few minutes...you didn't get up early enough.
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#49 Post by Roadking »

Kirk agreed!! We all get up plenty early, family members look at us like we are nuts. Hmm maybe we are all a little nuts in a good way!!

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