Been in the trees since my first season in 1970. I have never taken a nap. Maybe those Baker stands I used in the early days prevented the habit from developing.

Yep, if i wanted to sleep i would not have gone out.
Have to think if you sleep on stand? what you missed.

HH~

Quote from: Bowwild on July 29, 2021, 03:02:41 PM
Been in the trees since my first season in 1970. I have never taken a nap. Maybe those Baker stands I used in the early days prevented the habit from developing.

Baker Stand?  You are a survivor too?????!!!!!!!!! 

I don't take a nap in a tree stand. But will , actually can't help but nap while hunting from the ground. Guess I just feel more comfortable on the ground.

Quote from: Terry Green on July 29, 2021, 09:24:47 PM

Quote from: Bowwild on July 29, 2021, 03:02:41 PM
Been in the trees since my first season in 1970. I have never taken a nap. Maybe those Baker stands I used in the early days prevented the habit from developing.

Baker Stand?  You are a survivor too?????!!!!!!!!! 

😂 been there done that!!

Only, If my feet were on the ground. 

I napped once. I had a good plan, I sat back against the tree and tied a rope around me and the tree, no way can I fall out. When I woke up I looked down and the rope was untied. I figured my ex wife had found me and climbed up and untied it. I fooled her, I didn't fall out.
Jack

I strongly and respectfully suggest that you stick to the ground,  just my safe opinion,,

Can nap no problem in this. Has harness and hammock and hammock can come all the way above my head.

Cure..get a fuzzy cap,  racoon, coyote, etc. and wear it in your treestand.  The first time you open your eyes to a redtailed hawk or great horned owl " banking through the trees, talons "locked and loaded" on your head you won't doze off again.  Don't ask me how I know, lol!

you sleep much better on the ground.

Quote from: Lori on August 15, 2021, 06:15:53 PM
you sleep much better on the ground.

Respectfully disagree. The ground cannot compete with hammocks. Picture I shared is using a standing position but if you use the sitting position and lean back and let the hammock completely envelop you, personally in my opinion nothing sleeps like a Hammock. No pressure points. Wind in the trees ahh magical.

I sometimes nap in tree stands.  Like has been said, I tie off high with tension at all times.  I used to worry about all the things I was missing, but I'd be missing them anyway if I was back in a hammock at camp.  If taking a 15 minute nap keeps you out two hours longer you have come out ahead.  There are a lot of reasons to be in the woods.  Stress-free napping is a good one in this high speed life most of us our living.

About 30 years ago I had a permanent tree stand in a big thick spruce tree. It was in the late season (December).  Even though I was getting up real early and  working long hours , I still wanted to hunt. I got into the stand a few hours before dark and it was almost immediately I started to nod off. In the ready-to-shoot position this was unsafe. I decided to set with my back against the tree between two stout branches and shut my eyes for a bit. It was safe but not a shootable stance. I figured since I could hear some squirrels 50 yards off on the fallen frozen leaves, I could easily wake up and "make ready" if a deer were to come by.
   I pulled my wool hat over my eyes and settled back. What seemed like a few minutes I was awakened not by noise, but by a very eerie silence. I yanked my hat up and to my surprised the whole woods was now white. A "few minutes" was over 2 hours, and in that time a heavy snow squall moved through dumping about 3 inches.
   I climbed up that tree in late autumn and came down in early winter. That snow stayed until April.
On my way out it was still light enough to see a lone set of tracks heading away from the tree but none going to it.
I wish I would have had a camera.

Hammock seat, we have two. I practiced setting it up until it was really comfortable. I was asked, 'Can you shoot from that position?' No, I could not. Back toting in my Huntmore, at least with that I can rotate to keep the best possible angle when I take a shot. A good shot is more important than a nap.

Quote from: Lori on August 16, 2021, 02:50:18 PM
Hammock seat, we have two. I practiced setting it up until it was really comfortable. I was asked, 'Can you shoot from that position?' No, I could not. Back toting in my Huntmore, at least with that I can rotate to keep the best possible angle when I take a shot. A good shot is more important than a nap.

Which one did you have? Mine is incredibly easy to shoot out of it is a Dryad Drey

Ours are cheaper ones, but they pack small and light. They will make good camping seats for our upcoming canoe trip to the BWCA.

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