Sleeping while hunting

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I have been there many times ! Setting up on a mountainside with the nice warm sun on me. I have been known to drift off !
 
I get some of my best sleep sitting in a treestand or pop up blind. I use a summit stand that is comfortable as can be and a vest harness so I dont have to worry about falling out and just sleep away. :D
 
jbadams66 said:
I get some of my best sleep sitting in a treestand
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I'm glad you posted that, because I was about to say the same thing. Being outside on your days off, relaxing, is a great joy. To be that relaxed and disconnected from the world provides some of the best naps I've ever taken.
 
Great story from a friend in Iowa:

He drags a ratty old recliner into a snow-covered, corn-stubbled field. He sets the recliner near a fence with the wind to his back. He sets the gun across the armrests and promptly falls asleep. 2 hours later, he wakes to find deer tracks all around the chair, several different sizes of tracks--not a deer in sight.
 
My best naps are taken in an old shack I use for a blind. I have a great setup with a side table, beutiful view out the window, prop for my feet. No cell phone, too faw for my wife to walk and check on me and if someone does bother me I have a gun. Some day I may shoot a deer. We all hunt for different things...
 
In a deer-lease bunch of which I was once a member, one of the guys was in his eighties. He only hunted turkeys. He'd drive his Ford sedan down near a stock pond where turkeys commonly travelled through and park so he could shoot from the window. One morning, late, he hadn't returned to camp as expected. A couple of the guys drove down to check on him.

He was sound asleep. Turkeys on the roof; turkeys on the hood and trunklid, and turkeys all around on the ground.

There is a state that some call "hunter's doze", where you sorta snooze without really sleeping. Your senses are at least somewhat alert. I guess the advantage is that you're inert and unmoving, thus not spooking game by small motions. I've done that several times--to awaken and see a buck within shooting distance.
 
my mother in law sent me that pic a month ago. probably because she overheard me telling her daughter and husband i've fallen alseep a few times hunting. i recall one day i particular. it was the morning right after i met my g/f (her daughter) i was up literally all night. got home changed into my hunting clothes and me and dad left to head to the woods bowhunting. i slept from the time i got in the treestand (6 am) to about 5 pm. dad had to throw a branch up at me to wake me up. luckily my bow was hanging on a hook within arms reach and not on my lap with an arrow nocked. i fell alseep a few times since then but not in a tree. i'm like a little kid if i sit in the passenger seat for a ride longer than 20 minutes i fall asleep. but once my adrenaline (spelling?) gets flowing. i'm awake for hours.
 
Sometimes it is tough to stay awake when that warm sun starts shinning on you. It seems the older I get its alot tougher to stay awake in the stand. Thats why I wear the safety harness, because I've come dang close to falling asleep in the tree stand....:eek: When I hunt on the ground in my folding chair I catch a few winks in the evening sun before prime deer time.
 
Get some good nap time in. If you don't have to have the meat then no problem except for the critters (two legged) stealing your stuff.
 
"...some of the best naps I've ever taken..." Yep. The best nap I've ever had, and I'm an expert, was sitting in the Fall sunshine, on a foam pad, leaning on a big tree, while pretending to be squirrel hunting. Hunting isn't about the size or amount of game you take.
"...except for the critters (two legged) stealing your stuff..." You're in the wrong place. Go over one hill.
 
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