Reading on stand

[petey]

Speaking of fallin asleep. I rarely if ever fall asleep while hunting, BUT just this weekend I was watching over a nice field I knew a couple of longbeards liked to hit mid morning. The sun was up, pushing mid to upper 70's..nothing gobblin..about 11 am, and I find myslef dozzin' off under this big ol hemlock I'm perched up against. All of a sudden I feel something jump off my boot...wakes me right the heck up. After some bark hits me in the head, I look straight up to a pine (red) squirrel staring down at me 5 ft above my head. I'm sure we both starteled one another...That's what I get for sleeping on the job.

It was comical though. I wish I could have seen him bounce off my boot, instead of being so rudely woke up that way.

As for reading...no. I do carry a Dell Axim palm of which I pull SD card from trail cams on the way into a stand. I like to view what I've been missing while not in the stand...plus it's got some cool games on it! This is only during early archery when you can sit on a stand for hours and not see anything.

[YukonGirl]

I suppose it's a good idea not to take along any reading that's especially interesting or else you might not look up often enough and you could miss something.

It reminds me of a time I went duck hunting with a friend. I didn't have camo gear at the time so I sat next to a tree away from the water. I had some reading to keep me busy while my friend waited for the ducks to arrive. He didn't have anything to read and so he waited, and waited and a few hours later when he got really bored, he came over to see what I was up to. That's when the ducks showed up. Of course when he tried to get back into position they scattered.

[wrenchman]

I youse ground blinds most the time becouse i dont like to dozz of in a tree stand.
Yukon i actually have a system when reading on stand i read a page and look around then read the next page.

[Rapier]

My hunting buddy did just about everything you are not supposed to do in a stand, talked on his phone, smoked, ate, read, etc, etc. He shot deer before anyone else and usually ended a season with 4 to 6 deer (legal here). Course with a family of 6 he went through a deer pretty fast. But he was bad to talk on one of those aggrivating hand held radio phones with the loud beeps. Deer would walk up to him in his tree stand while he was talking on the phone, amazing.
Best,
Ed