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Good show, Vic.
Mike
Mike
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Thank you Mike. Now if I could flog myself into staying in a deer stand long enough to see one. Sitting in a tree stand or blind is getting more and more difficult to do every year. This year the woods was sooooo dry that to try and still hunt was like walking through a bowl of corn flakes and it stayed that way the entire season.Comment
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Vic,
After a dry summer, it has been raining all day, here. Our season has been extended this year to 10 Feb. I will be 72 when it ends, you should feel young.
MikeComment
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Vic,
After a dry summer, it has been raining all day, here. Our season has been extended this year to 10 Feb. I will be 72 when it ends, you should feel young.
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My head feels 35-40....not so much the body....lol! But I'm still in fairly good shape and getting better. It isn't physically difficult to get in or stay in a stand or blind, it's the mental aspect. I could barely do it when I was young and the older I get the more it absolutely bores me out of my skull!!!!!!! I do still love to still hunt but as dry and windy as it's been this year I lacked the gumption to go. Grown particular in my dotage I guess....
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Vic,
You need to develop the ability to sleep and wake up from time to time to see if a deer is present. To do this, build a stand you can't fall out of, put a swivel chair with arms in it, take a sleeping bag, or wool blanket, and rest your rifle and binoculars so you only have to reach less than an arms length to grab them. You may not kill a lot of deer, but it's the best sleep in the world. Anyway, if you don't kill one, you won't have to gut one; and you have killed enough that it's not as exciting as when you were young. You have to hunt, so you have the excuse to get another rifle.
MikeComment
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Vic,
You need to develop the ability to sleep and wake up from time to time to see if a deer is present. To do this, build a stand you can't fall out of, put a swivel chair with arms in it, take a sleeping bag, or wool blanket, and rest your rifle and binoculars so you only have to reach less than an arms length to grab them. You may not kill a lot of deer, but it's the best sleep in the world. Anyway, if you don't kill one, you won't have to gut one; and you have killed enough that it's not as exciting as when you were young. You have to hunt, so you have the excuse to get another rifle.
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Sage advice I will have to put into practice next year. Momma uses the one pop up blind we have so I guess I better get another for me. Just a little thought says there is enough room in the blind for an end table, thermos and a book. 'Course then I'd have to pee every 10 minutes....maybe not the thermos.Comment
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Sage advice indeed but I prefer a recliner. The hardest thing is getting it up in the tree! Thanks, DizComment
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The answer is a gallon milk jug.
Diz
We have a tower stand with a staircase(not ladder) that was built for a late friend, after he had a stroke, I still have to hold onto the handrail. I usually hunt out of one of two ground blinds, with shutters that swing up and make it dark inside, there is a shelf for my pistol, thermos, and binoculars. A recliner wouldn't work in them, I can shoot from two different sides, so its a swivel chair. They lean back against the wall though. Still good sleeping.
MikeComment
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The answer is a gallon milk jug.
Diz
We have a tower stand with a staircase(not ladder) that was built for a late friend, after he had a stroke, I still have to hold onto the handrail. I usually hunt out of one of two ground blinds, with shutters that swing up and make it dark inside, there is a shelf for my pistol, thermos, and binoculars. A recliner wouldn't work in them, I can shoot from two different sides, so its a swivel chair. They lean back against the wall though. Still good sleeping.
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Diz, Dad did it!! 'Course he was superintendent of the city power company at the time and used one of the boom trucks....and that was a long time ago when that sort of thing wasn't frowned on. I believe his intent was a lot more about the sleeping Mike mentioned than deer hunting. It was more of an adult tree house that had windows and a roof. He always took an old catalytic heater with him to keep under an old wool Army blanket as he sat in the equally old recliner. I know he never killed a deer from that stand.Comment
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Your Dad knew what it was about! Once you advance to the recliner stage, it's not about shooting deer any longer. Like Mike says "best sleep ever". DizComment
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