I fidget....a lot! So a while back I started reading while in a stand or in my blinds. It helps me to keep still and quiet. Anybody else try this?

I always read a book or 3 during season! Though, I've slowed up since having a buck bust me!

Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk

I read Monty Browning's book while in the Antelope blind. Next time I'll bring a smaller book. It sure helps pass the time on the all-day sits when there isn't much action

I tried it once a book by Bob Kirschner a million years ago - I couldn't do it- I found the scenery and wildlife totally captivating and this remains so to this day in fact Monday I had a hummingbird buzzing in front of me for 20 or 30 seconds he would look me in the eye then look down ?? Took me a moment but he was staring at the bright yellow and orange fletch on my lap thinking they might be food - I'm bad about texting though LOL
<><
<———————<<<<<<<

Quote from: Cory Mattson on October 05, 2018, 06:47:44 PM
I tried it once a book by Bob Kirschner a million years ago - I couldn't do it- I found the scenery and wildlife totally captivating and this remains so to this day in fact Monday I had a hummingbird buzzing in front of me for 20 or 30 seconds he would look me in the eye then look down ?? Took me a moment but he was staring at the bright yellow and orange fletch on my lap thinking they might be food - I'm bad about texting though LOL
<><
<—�—�—�—�—�—�—�<<<<<<<


I wrote this while waiting for the sun to get lower and sitting behind a GhostBlind with a CRP field to my front and a recently tilled wheat field on public lands behind me.     

I read the entire book The Traditional Way by Fred Anderson last year on the firearm opener. It rained all day, and being trapped in a blind with one window would have been really dull without it. I've tried doing homework in the blind, but that's a different story.

I read inside my pop-up blind while turkey hunting, but never when on stand for deer.  Do write in my journal occasionally though.

Nope.  I love to read, but I can read all year.

Deer season is too short not to pay attention every minute I can spend in the woods.

No, I try to focus on keeping a sharp lookout, but sometimes I do fidget too much no matter how hard I try to concentrate.

I take a book with me to the blind. Some hunts, I am to able to read while many hunts, the anticipation is much too high. I will likely do a dozen all-dayers this season. I generally get thru quite a bit of material on those hunts.

Book or phone, I just can't. Not on principle or anything, its just that when I look down too long and then up my eyes take too long to re-focus. Plus I'm on the ground so the less I'm doing the better. Sometimes I have to reapond to a text or something, but I try and limit it.

If my sit is longer than about 2 hours I have to read- my makeup doesn't allow me to sit all day with nothing to do.  I have wasted a few good opportunities by reading- look up and an animal is already close and I get busted moving to get ready for a shot.  But, I have decided that getting busted occassionally is better than fidgeting.  I will stop reading during the last hour of a day,or whenever my vibrations tell me I need to be paying attention right now. 

 
Yes, I enjoy re reading old Lois L Amour  westerns while sitting on stand.  I even made a camo book cover so they don't show up from the ground.

Sometimes I read, especially on all day sits. I also have been known to hone my cribbage skills on my phone.

Whatever the season I always keep the weapon in my hand, ready. I figger the less movement the better.
Heck, there's always 4 movies running in my old deficient cranium to watch anyway.

I keep my kindle in my backpack for reading while hunting. Sometimes I read, and sometimes I don't, just depends on the situation and my mood..lol. However, you do have to be careful not to get so wrapped up in reading that you get caught off guard by a critter.

The bear camp I used to frequent had whole "library "...... sitting in a tree for up to 6 hours where you can only see 20 yards in any direction  will make you fidget unless you have something to occupy your mind.

Did it all the time when rifle hunting in an enclosed blind. Tough to do with bow while hunting on the ground. Just to much movement. With that said, I usually have a paperback with me during all day stays in the field. 

Never. I'll read when I get home. Season is way to short to waist looking at a book.

I read sometime and generally try to STAY distracted.  Deer seem to only come when I'm distracted and unprepared!  LOL

When I'm focused and ready, I never see any!