occupization

[str8 shot]

I was thinking in the stand the other day of some new ways i could keep myself occupied in the stand when it gets a lil boring and just thought i ask some of you what you do. lets here some goodens

[AteUp]

I know what all you guys are thinkin right now.:eek: Let's keep it clean or the thread is short lived.

[str8 shot]

I know what all you guys are thinkin right now.:eek: Let's keep it clean or the thread is short lived.

LMAO...knew that one was comin

[TROPHYTAKER308]

i have video game such as tetris on my cell phone,or i might call a hunting buddy that is hunting at the same time to hear what is going on with his hunt...talking very low and have the phone on vibrate helps when doing so....

[Paul@Papes]

Buy yourself a GPS, hours of boredom killer in one of those!

[keith meador]

i am usually text messaging with some of my hunting buddies, usually between naps in the stand.

sometimes i try to count squirrels, but usually lose count around 30....i will take out my rangefinder and work on yardage estimation.

[Matt Orr]

I play poker on my phone, but I have noticed that it is hard to get your eyes focused on something quick after you've looked at that little screen for a while.

[Hammer]

I play poker on my phone, but I have noticed that it is hard to get your eyes focused on something quick after you've looked at that little screen for a while.

i noticed the same thing yesterday. I was playing Zuma on my phone and heard some leaves rustling, looked up, and everything was blurry.

[westkybanded]

spitting for distance and accuracy...

That would make a great olympic event!

[quackrstackr]

I just spent two consecutive weekends logging 12 hours a day in the stand. I think I've spent more time in the stand in the last two weekends than I have the last two years combined. :D

I think I've solved all of the world's problems at least once and worked myself up quite a list of things I need to be doing instead of sitting in a tree all day.

[Skeeter Farm]

I just spent two consecutive weekends logging 12 hours a day in the stand. I think I've spent more time in the stand in the last two weekends than I have the last two years combined. :D

I think I've solved all of the world's problems at least once and worked myself up quite a list of things I need to be doing instead of sitting in a tree all day.

Quack, me and you both. Just was about to write the same thing, plus the list of honeydo's is getting very long. Especally today, when she realized duck season is just days away. :D My son just had to bring duck season up when we seen all the mallards and woodies setting on our flooded timber hole. Sorta took me back when I would let the cat out of the bag on my dad years ago. Man did I get a lecture on keeping my mouth shut about deer camp.:eek:

Oh and the son's old gameboy really comes in handy on them 12 hour days.

[AteUp]

And what do you guys do after spending all weekend in the stand??? Come home and get on here. Pathetic I say.:eek:;)

[Buk Bust'r]

LIkE A LOT OF YOU HAVE SAID, TINKER ON THE CELL OR KICK BACK AND NAP OR READ IN MY TREE LOUNGE.:D

[notimlmit]

I'm usally so keyed up from being afraid I'll miss something that I don't get bored but frustrated when no movement is happening. By the end of the day I'm ready to crash but not before my PATHETIC self gets on here to see how everyone else has done.:D

[GSPonGrouse]

Take about a 40 min nap.(10 seconds at a time):D

[KYhunter79]

I text a lot. I work on raising my gun on squirrels at close distances without them seeing or hearing my movement. I look at stuff and then try to find it in my scope as quick as possible. Do A LOT of thinking.

[mrdux]

Whatever happened to just sitting there and enjoying what nature has created for us to see? If my attention span was so short that I had to take some sort of babysitter with me, I would stay at the house. How many chances of a lifetime ended up walking by while you are playing with some kids game?

[lkj118]

I'm usally so keyed up from being afraid I'll miss something that I don't get bored but frustrated when no movement is happening. By the end of the day I'm ready to crash but not before my PATHETIC self gets on here to see how everyone else has done.:D


i know how you feel.:D:D

[BadDuck]

Whatever happened to just sitting there and enjoying what nature has created for us to see? If my attention span was so short that I had to take some sort of babysitter with me, I would stay at the house. How many chances of a lifetime ended up walking by while you are playing with some kids game?

Exactly. I just started a thread asking what age everyone started taking thier kids with them. This is almost the same epidemic I am going through with my son. He wants to take a game, or play with something. Granted he is 7 and still very young, its this kind of need for constant entertainment that bothers me.

I NEVER raise my gun on anything but deer. I learned a long time ago, to move as little as possible. Just because I dont see a deer doesnt mean it isnt close enough to see me move like that.

[naturalelite]

I text some and play phone games some. I spend most my time thinking "I wander what I would be seeing if I went to that other stand". I also try to think of another fuel alternative. I think if we could take all the hot air blown on this site we could run a mid size SUV for a year!

[AteUp]

I usually think about biscuits and gravy.:cool:

[natebosox]

i have handheld yatzee that keeps me entertained from time to time when the action is kindave slow.

[emuller]

A good book works well to make the time go by.

[corndogggy]

Just wondering what you guys do to keep from going nuts during a slow day. Some people probably don't get out in the woods much and just love staring at a tree for hours but I can't do that, I'm in the woods all the time, year round, and I just can't sit there for hours when there's nothing going on. This year I took a magazine to the blind with me. :D

[B Hicks]

For the first time ever, I sit in a stand bowhunting this year in Illinois from 6.00 am to 6.30 pm, without climbing down. Saw deer in the am and pm, but nothing from 9.30 to 4.00. Makes for a long, long day. I knew I only had 5 days to hunt, so I had made my mind up that I was going to hunt for 5 full days. Sit for two days like this, and on the third day shot a 165-170 class about an hour after good light. First shooter I had seen.

I also started using a summit climber this year. That makes it much easier as well. Very comfortable.

[nwest]

Take about a 40 min nap.(10 seconds at a time):D


Same here.

[Bear Hunter]

spitting for distance and accuracy...

That would make a great olympic event!
Now thats funny, I don't care who you are:D I spit Last Sat morning,Lips were cold and I spit right on my cover alls:o

[corndogggy]

Crap, I totally missed the "occupization" thread.

A.D.D., it sucks. :D

[kybowhunter64]

The last couple of times I've read a look at life from a deer stand and he just came out with a new one a further look at life from a deer stand good books to read while hunting it makes you think about things!!

[corndogggy]

I started up another thread because I didn't see this one. Anyway, this year I took a copy of Men's Health with me. Should have brought some kind of freaky Stephen King book... like "The girl who loved Tom Gordon"... about this girl who gets lost in the woods for days while hiking and then realizes this freaky "thing" is in the woods too, watching her. Really creepy. I've read it before, but it would be great to read in the woods.

http://www.amazon.com/Girl-Who-Loved-Tom-Gordon/dp/0671042858

[Bear Hunter]

I started up another thread because I didn't see this one. Anyway, this year I took a copy of Men's Health with me. Should have brought some kind of freaky Stephen King book... like "The girl who loved Tom Gordon"... about this girl who gets lost in the woods for days while hiking and then realizes this freaky "thing" is in the woods too, watching her. Really creepy. I've read it before, but it would be great to read in the woods.

http://www.amazon.com/Girl-Who-Loved-Tom-Gordon/dp/0671042858
I read an OutDoor Life article one time about a Grizzley Bear attack,I was scared to death walking to my stand.....then to top it off I busted a turkey roost, started to pray for a quick and merciful end!:D

[huntinthemfields]

:DI to have a short attention span and have found that I get very antzy in the stand if nothing is happeneing. I usually take a paperback book and read or a have a small poker game that you can turn the sound off and it keeps me still for awhile. I have a ipod that i put the earpiece in one ear and listen to very soft music between naps.

[corndogggy]

I read an OutDoor Life article one time about a Grizzley Bear attack,I was scared to death walking to my stand.....then to top it off I busted a turkey roost, started to pray for a quick and merciful end!:D

What's scary is hearing a ghost story about a cemetary out in the woods in LBL... then immediately hopping on your bike and riding through it at night, by yourself. :eek: I can walk anywhere by myself with a flashlight but when you strap lights to your bike and take off through the woods, your senses are dulled a little and it really feels like something is out there with you.

The other time I was really creeped out was another cold night ride on a bike... behind a prison... right after me and some buddies were confronted by half a dozen prison guards with shotguns informing us that somebody had escaped into the woods. :eek:

Hunting has never bothered me though. Walking doesn't dull your senses as much I guess and it's easier to see what is beside you.

[Bear Hunter]

TRUE STORY!!! I was sittin in my stand mindin my own business heard some dogs barking,comin toward me. Two Rottwielers followed by a throng of police officers tree me like a coon!Seems some Wingnut tries to rob the local Kroger and cuts out thru my little patch of woods! I left :eek:

[quackrstackr]

Those have to be a couple of the most bizarre deer hunting stories of all time.

I thought I had seen some strange goings on. You guys win the prize with those.

[Bear Hunter]

Those have to be a couple of the most bizarre deer hunting stories of all time.

I thought I had seen some strange goings on. You guys win the prize with those.
I know it sounds a bit bizarre, but its a true story! Happened right in Down Town Fern Creek, before it was a thriving metropolis:D

[str8 shot]

since i started it i guess ill say what i do...sleep,spit, and sh.......EAT!

[corndogggy]

sh.......EAT!

Do you guys have to take a dump on opening morning? :D Man when I wake up too early and my nerves are shot and I smell all that earth and moldy leaves, I just gotta leave my mark in the woods. Happens like every year, I've gotten to where I just bring an entire roll of toilet paper.

[quackrstackr]

That's just a result of the pre-opening day "man meal" most people consume either the night before or the morning of. :D

[teacher]

Eat some jerkey and read some Dr. Phil, so I can make peace when I get back home.

[hannibal]

this was my first year back hunting after a 11+ year hiatus. i fondly remembered the opening morning dump. So I got up an extra half hour early and drank a couple of cups of coffee to get the bm moving a bit early. i left the house cleaned out.

as far as occupying my time, I didn't find it that hard this year. in past i usually had the fidgets, but i didn't really feel them this year. i spent most of the weekend reflecting on the past. i was hunting with my grandfather in spirit (his old 30-30 in my lap) and couldn't help but feel connected to the world at the time. i will tell you that i smoked like a fiend in the stand. i quit smoking two years ago, but something about being in the woods and feeling manly brought out those cravings. my lungs are still paying for it. killed out on a double second morning of opening weekend.

[EKY.MTN.HUNTER]

I day dream alot, and if I'm not day dreaming I'm reading these forums via cell phone while hunting.

[buckfever]

Eat some jerkey and read some Dr. Phil, so I can make peace when I get back home.

Not sure I follow. . . Can you explain this to me?

Reading Dr. Phil = Endless Relationship Discussions with the wife.

I can only assume that the "peace" part comes in when you cut the conversation short by telling your wife that eating all that jerky gave you the winds, and you've really got to get to the bathroom (where you hide until your wife decides that you've had enough and she needs you to finish the Honey-Do list). :D

[Bear Hunter]

Do you guys have to take a dump on opening morning? :D Man when I wake up too early and my nerves are shot and I smell all that earth and moldy leaves, I just gotta leave my mark in the woods. Happens like every year, I've gotten to where I just bring an entire roll of toilet paper. Man I did have "THE PAIN" hit me this year, so I left my stand, Did the deed, came back smelled a stange odor,realized I drug my bibs strap thru it. That was not as bad as the time I peed in my duck call cause the lanyard is too long. TRUE STORY!!!!:eek:

[itallushrt]

Whatever happened to just sitting there and enjoying what nature has created for us to see? If my attention span was so short that I had to take some sort of babysitter with me, I would stay at the house. How many chances of a lifetime ended up walking by while you are playing with some kids game?

Amen brother! I get in a tree or a duck blind or whatever to escape the electronics, the people and everything else. I'm perfectly happy just sitting and watching. Granted I get a little restless sometimes, but I've never thought once about taking a gameboy or a mini poker game with me!

[hannibal]

That was not as bad as the time I peed in my duck call cause the lanyard is too long. TRUE STORY!!!!:eek:

Did you realize what you did by smell or taste?

[Bear Hunter]

Did you realize what you did by smell or taste? I saw it, took em down to the water, dunked em acouple of times,wiped em off GOOD AS NEW!:D

[120+]

this was my first year back hunting after a 11+ year hiatus. i fondly remembered the opening morning dump. So I got up an extra half hour early and drank a couple of cups of coffee to get the bm moving a bit early. i left the house cleaned out.


Man I hope I never get old enough where taking a dump is part of my "fond hunting memories". :D

[120+]

Taking a dump ranks above an beyond all other bodily functions if a man really needs to go. My best dump ranks higher than my best piece of pie.

You need to try some different pie. ;)

[Loomis1228]

"When you think you need to go, you ought to go because I knew a fellar that thought that he had to go but before he got there he found out he had done been. Much obliged and good night."

--The comedic genius of Mr. Bun Wilson (Renfro Valley Barn Dance)

[Zack Attack]

I pray and think a lot while in the deer stand. And I don't mean I pray for a big buck to walk by. I pray for my family, church and friends. I reflect on my own life and how I affect other people. I think about the things that I can change in my life to make me a better person and leader. I think about my wife and what I need to do to be a better husband. I think about my church and what I need to do to be a better youth pastor. I think about the books that I have been reading. I think about how to reach and love people with relationships. last week I outlined a paper in my head a lot of times a think through the scripture's and outline sermons in my head. I get a lot done in the deer stand this way. ZTT

[150PandY]

Do you guys have to take a dump on opening morning? :D Man when I wake up too early and my nerves are shot and I smell all that earth and moldy leaves, I just gotta leave my mark in the woods. Happens like every year, I've gotten to where I just bring an entire roll of toilet paper.

I almost started a thread on this the other day because it happens to me every year! Sometimes a couple of times a year. I am going to look and see if anyone has done a thread on it if not I will start one!!!! Maybe a poll!

[ksp771]

Someone on here reccomended a book to me called "A Look at life from the Deer Stand" and I can't put it down. Good reading.

[turk2di]

A good sports paperback book helps to pass the time.

[150PandY]

spitting for distance and accuracy...

That would make a great olympic event!

I did that saturday at Fort Knox I was bored after setting for HOURS and not seeing any deer so I started seeing how far I could spit and if a lougy would go farther than just spit and working on technique! I estimated that about 8 feet (while setting on the ground) was the max without making the big sound of a lougy!

[turk2di]

No wonder many of us are on here checkin 2c about others kills;)

[plowboy]

Whatever happened to just sitting there and enjoying what nature has created for us to see? If my attention span was so short that I had to take some sort of babysitter with me, I would stay at the house. How many chances of a lifetime ended up walking by while you are playing with some kids game?

I'm with you on this one Doug, after all that's the main reason I am out there. Simply enjoying the outdoors.

[Gobblergetter2.1]

To be honest, i usually sit as long as i can, when i start to get bored, i go still hunting. I dont take anything like a PSP or some other type of game (other than my phone) so that rules that out. Other than just enjoying nature, thinking about random things, and fidgeting my thumbs; i still hunt. I dont go to sleep because i normally hunt out of ladder stands with no railing, i cant afford to fall insleep in one of those without a saftey harness. If i catch myself starting to drift, i get out of the stand, find a comfortable spot on the ground, and saw some logs.

[rabbit16v]

My cell phone has an mp3/radio so I listen to that occasionally.

Singing the last song I heard on the radio before getting out of the car over and over and over until I HAVE TO break out the cell phone.

Coming up w/ ideas to possibly patent but never get around to doing them.

Watch other people walk by me cause I have good luck at that.

Wishing I had my own land so I can rightfully yell at the people I see walking by.

Estimating the amount of money spent for the season and realize I could be a 2nd home owner.

Answering the phone cause I'm only important on the days I'm sitting in a tree.

[semperhunting]

I usually drink beer.

[Cornpile]

I hunt all day when I go.I do talk on the cell with huntin budds to see how they are doing.Most of my time I concentrate on woods movement and sounds.After a few days in the stand ,I can pick out leaves flicking in the woods a 100 yds away,or a squirrels tail.I can hear the wind going thru the trees long before it reaches me.I can hear chipmonks or turkeys who sound like big bucks coming thru the woods.I tune into the woods,I actually close my eyes and only use my ears and listen for forest sounds.After a few days of this and getting use to my area ,nothing gets by me.This is what I do to occupy my time ,its called hunting.:)

[WhiteRubi]

I sit all day and think of words like "occupization". It passes the time rather quickly. All that thinking fries my brain, though. :D

Either that or I text my buddy new "You know how I know your gay?" lines like the ones from 40 Year Old Virgin.

I've got internet on my phone as well so I check out some redneck forum. I think it's www.kentuckyhunting.net Man those guys are crazy. All they talk about is taking a nature dump and oil prices.

[PhilpotHunter]

I have done a lot of praying this year, a little sleeping late in the mornings, and a lot of reading. I make myself sit and do nothing but watch the woods until 9am. Then I pull out my paperback and read until 10 or 11. Then I slide out of the woods for my long delayed "man dump", a sandwich, quick cat nap, and I'm back in the stand by 1:30.

For whatever reason I get more antsy in the morning than the afternoon???


And to the guys who think I should just "stay home" if I can't sit in the stand and do nothing? Kiss it buddy:D Whatever works for you great! But I went years trying to follow your advice, and my ADHD (not diagnosed!:D) had me down wandering the woods by 8am. If it will keep me in the stand longer, I'm willing to give it a shot. I have killed more deer in a blind or stand reading a book, than "staying at home" because I am not as good and dedicated a hunter as you are. Thank God it is a free country huh?

[piebald buster]

Drink a diet coke/coffee and eat some snacks when I get bored. And enjoying the scenery and tranquility when I'm at it.

[120+]

I just look for deer. :D

Jokes aside, I will sometimes look for shooting lanes and glass them to make sure there aren't any small limbs I can't see with the naked eye. Also, since the turkey and coyote population has exploded in eastern kentucky it's not as easy to get bored as it was 20 years ago.

[jarhedhntr]

:DYour full of it little brother, I have never hunted with you where you aren't down by 930am at the latest. Something about a bad back and couldn't hold it any longer.:D

I have done a lot of praying this year, a little sleeping late in the mornings, and a lot of reading. I make myself sit and do nothing but watch the woods until 9am. Then I pull out my paperback and read until 10 or 11. Then I slide out of the woods for my long delayed "man dump", a sandwich, quick cat nap, and I'm back in the stand by 1:30.

For whatever reason I get more antsy in the morning than the afternoon???


And to the guys who think I should just "stay home" if I can't sit in the stand and do nothing? Kiss it buddy:D Whatever works for you great! But I went years trying to follow your advice, and my ADHD (not diagnosed!:D) had me down wandering the woods by 8am. If it will keep me in the stand longer, I'm willing to give it a shot. I have killed more deer in a blind or stand reading a book, than "staying at home" because I am not as good and dedicated a hunter as you are. Thank God it is a free country huh?

[Hallal]

for the last handful of years I've taken a thermos of coffee to help pass the time. but I find myself up and down the stand to take a leak.

This year I did take a cell phone with me. It was kinda nice to just call my buddy once I had my deer down instead of walking after him.

I did take my MP3/radio player with to listen to a little music last weekend. It didn't last long though I really felt like I was missing something

[str8 shot]

I sit all day and think of words like "occupization". It passes the time rather quickly. All that thinking fries my brain, though. :D

Either that or I text my buddy new "You know how I know your gay?" lines like the ones from 40 Year Old Virgin.

I've got internet on my phone as well so I check out some redneck forum. I think it's www.kentuckyhunting.net (http://www.kentuckyhunting.net) Man those guys are crazy. All they talk about is taking a nature dump and oil prices.

lmao yes we love our nature dumps

[2 Poppa]

I don't do anything that would distract me from the hunt ... you only see the "Monster" once!