How long do you sit?

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I can barely sit still for more than an hour which is why I still hunt so much. The guys I know that do the best read books while on a stand.
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this time of year here i stay in the stand til it gets too warm to be comfortable. usually by 9:30/10:00 am.
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Boo wrote:The guys I know that do the best read books while on a stand.
I like to read Louis L'Amour westerns! Read a page, and look around. Of course, your ears are "on" all the time. 8)
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Part of the problem is comfort. I’m hunting public land and I’m leery on leaving my ground blind there for an extended period of time. So most of the time I take a cushion and look for something to lean against. Often I just sit against a tree like you would for turkey. After an hour or so things start to go numb.
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all day if i don't have to work. if i do then 3 or 4 hours before and after work
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I am good for about an hour, I move around too much when I am sitting still. I Move a lot less when I am walking around, if that makes any sense.
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I am in my stand at least an hour before legal light, sometimes earlier depending on where I am hunting. Then I sit as long as I can. Sometimes until 11 or noon.

Last year I remember sitting until 10:30 one morning, got out of my stand to scout a little came back to my stand and saw fresh tracks in the snow where a half hour earlier there were none.

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Sandman wrote:Depends on the hunt itself but I try to be in stand at least 1 hour before legal shooting in the am and will sit 4-5 hours. In the evening I like to be in stand about 3 ish and out after legal shooting time.

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Really good point. I like getting in my stand early. The deer will know you walked by (will smell your tracks). The longer it has been there the less they worry about it. I have seen a deer walk up to the spot I walked in and taken a smell - turned and run (I had only gotten to stand about a half hour before that). This year I have watched deer go to where I walked in - four hours earlier - and smelled the foot prints but did not seem the least bit alarmed.

Having deer pattern when you get in and out is big too. That was a big mistake I made my first year. With climbing stands I can change trees, locations and so on with very little impact. This keeps the deer from figuring me out - where and when I will be. Has helped me the last few years.
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bstout wrote:
fishnbugdude wrote:I have seen a deer walk up to the spot I walked in and taken a smell - turned and run (I had only gotten to stand about a half hour before that).
Knee high rubber boots will cure this problem.
I've walked down many a trail in gumboots and have seen deer walk right across or along my path soon after.

Nary a problem.

Long as you don't wear 'em to the gas station or some other inadvisable place! :D
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I like to read Louis L'Amour westerns! Read a page, and look around. Of course, your ears are "on" all the time.
Which one? I have 102 of his books in my bookcase. :lol:

I try to time my stand hunting with the feeder/food plot traffic. Very often in years past I have been able to get in the stand and shoot a deer within less than an hour. So far this year the dry weather has the food plot stunted and traffic there is low. I've kept the feeder going for about a month now, but haven't "patterned" the deer with a trail cam yet.
I did find a new location today. A creek crossing that is funneled down tight by a fence corner with one section between two posts (right at the corner) broken down to about two feet tall. The rest of the fence is four feet high - guess where the deer are crossing. :wink: The best of it is that I already have a ladder stand only about 50 yards from the location. I will go in during mid-day soon and move the ladder stand. :wink: :lol:
Also found a freshly worked scrape today! :shock:
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Louis L'Amour, Zane Grey - classics! :lol: I've been collecting them since my early teens ages ago. Not sure I could ever part with 'em. The good guys are good guys and the bad guys don't stand a chance.
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VixChix wrote: The good guys are good guys and the bad guys don't stand a chance.
The way it oughta be! :twisted:
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bstout wrote:
fishnbugdude wrote:I have seen a deer walk up to the spot I walked in and taken a smell - turned and run (I had only gotten to stand about a half hour before that).
Knee high rubber boots will cure this problem.
That is what I am running now - helps but I would not bet my life on them. Wash them close to weekly with sports wash and keep them in an air tight container.

Maybe its just me - gotta get odour eaters or something. :D
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i wear camo hunting boots and spray them with scent killer i have had deer walk right through my tracks no problem. i had one buck smell my tracks 2 years ago and didnt really like what he smelled he was about to run when the arrow passed through his heart at 5 yards. thats why i started spraying them after that experience
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