RE-15
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Sent from my droid while in the stand. I think I am less of hunter these days with the internet in my palm. It sure does help kill the time in the stand though.
Smart phone = bad hunting?
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ZeroJunk
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Reminds me. I was in the stand last year with two or three doe milling around within 30 yards or so. It was late and my wife called probably thinking I was already down. Anyhow, the thing is loud. The deer sort of looked around trying to figure out what kind of bird or whatever goes on in a deer's mind. I eased it out and told her I would be home in little while. The deer just went back about there business until I started down and blew them out of there.
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RE-15
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I just dont hear as much or notice as much movement while im reading. It dose help make the time go by . I think ill leave it alone during rifle season this weekend.
oneounceload
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Then maybe you should get out of your stand and actually HUNT the deer instead of sitting and waiting for them......you might appreciate the work it takes to stalk and pursue like they do out West
gbran
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I've sucessfully hunted over 40 years and have never been in a stand. And, BTW, I really like my smart phone, but rarely mess with it out in the field.
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RE-15
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Stand hunting In MO with a bow is a very effective method for whitetail.
I am not out west so why would I apply methods that are not as affective?
many of us here hunt on small 10 to 40 acre plots. No spot and stalking is availible.
why do you feel it nessesary to attack and assume I can't, or am to lazy to hunt "properly"?
I am not out west so why would I apply methods that are not as affective?
many of us here hunt on small 10 to 40 acre plots. No spot and stalking is availible.
why do you feel it nessesary to attack and assume I can't, or am to lazy to hunt "properly"?
Stand? What is this stand you speak of? Not much stand hunting done here in CO. Part of the reason I love to hunt is to get away from the modern world. I love a nice primitive hunt camp. I carry my dumb phone with me in case of emergancies and to talk to my wife in the evening but that is it. Durning my hunt it is off and stowed deep down in the pack.
I am sick to death of watching todays youth thumbing text and losing their way without some navigation system built into a phone.
And the very last thing I want to be around is someone in God's natural setting looking at the internet on a hand held phone in the middle of a country side with the finest things a human can view,smell,and experience.
Learn something about the natural order of things.
And the very last thing I want to be around is someone in God's natural setting looking at the internet on a hand held phone in the middle of a country side with the finest things a human can view,smell,and experience.
Learn something about the natural order of things.
Sam1911
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Because if you don't do it the way I do it then you aren't a "real" hunter!
Haven't you read all the long-range-hunting threads? And the high-fence-ranch hunting threads? And the minimum caliber for deer threads? And the safari ethics threads? And, and, and...!
We can -almost- accept each other's differing gun rights interests. But hunt some way I don't approve of? Death to the infidels!
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I thought everyone knew that already...
Good point Sam. OP if having your phone and gadgets in the field works for you then by all means go for it. Do not worry about what the uber hunters on the web say. The internet, serious business.
I have NO idea how I got as far along in life as I have without being welded to a electronic device. Didn't really have a problem BEFORE we even got a phone and when we did it was a party line and a person actualy had to turn a dial on it and know the number or call the operator. Or ask an operator to place a long distance call station to station, person to person or collect. I'm amazed that a person can touch a few pads and bring up any answer to any question. All that information used to be in a library in what was known as encyclopedias that took up shelves upon shelves. I have a cell phone but have no reason to weld it to my hip. I'll make a call when I please and return calls when I please but it isn't behind the wheel, standing in line at a store or telling someone to shut up while I take a call. They are in a sense, a boon to society but, at the same time they are a nuisance.
Sam1911
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Heh. I used to hunt with a guy who smoked a half-pack every morning in the stand, and entertained himself while waiting by plinking groundhogs with broadheads and talking to his wife on the cell phone. He shot lots more deer than I did, including a great big 10 pointer out his patio door in his suburban MD backyard -- that he'd been bringing us snapshots of all summer.
He taught me a lot about not giving two poops about how someone else puts meat in the freezer.
He taught me a lot about not giving two poops about how someone else puts meat in the freezer.
ZeroJunk
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I like to sit in a stand in some hardwoods and watch what comes by. Bobcats, skunks, squirrels, turkeys, mink, bear, whatever. I usually have no intention of shooting anything. I enjoy it and although a stalker might think he is Daniel Boone in reality a large percentage of what was there he scared away and never knew it.
788Ham
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When I go hunting/fishing, I want to get out of Dodge! I want to breathe air that ain't been breathed before........ I just want to get away from the hassle of town life. stop lights and sirens. Listen to what nature has to say for awhile, just listen to the loudness of NOTHING! Living in town and cities have their purposes, but lets leave the phones and droid and all the other BS at home on the bureau huh?
I too am guilty of using the smart phone while hunting. When I had several thousand acres of private land at my disposal I did a lot of stalking, but these days it's smaller plots and stand hunting. I have to say sitting in a blind looking at the same thing can become a little tiring and I have a mind that constantly needs to be doing something. I pull out the phone, look at THR, and pass the time. I killed a nice little buck last fall just minutes after finishing Mr. Nighcrawlers book. Before the smartphone I would take a book or some magazines. I say whatever makes you stay on stand longer, go for it. If you don't like the fact that I look at my phone while hunting I must ask, what do you care? It impacts you zero!
sugarmaker
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Toilet paper is high tech when I'm hunting. I find GPS screens, radios, etc. decrease my awareness and ability to memorize terrain.
Leverb66
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The worst thing about the OP is that there was no cell phone pic of a kill!
And I don`t even have a cell phone period !
That seems to be the case in the dense hardwood forests in western NY. Stalkers go home with stories, stand-hunters go home with deer.
The only reason I got a smart phone last year is for hunting. It allows me to go hunting a lot more than I used to. I'm lucky that I have a job that only requires that I be present in the office if I have meetings scheduled that day. If no meetings, I can be sitting in a stand and check e-mail and v-mail hourly. I can respond immediately if necessary or take care of it when I get home.
inclinebench
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Smart phones also have some cool applications that can be downloaded for free. I just downloaded a compass/GPS that allows me to mark spots, then anytime I want to find that spot, it points the way. Nice way to get through thick woods to find my stand in the dark.
That is not to say that phones are always great to have in the woods. A buddy missed a really nice buck because he was so engrossed in his text messaging that he had his rifle leaned against a tree, and the deer came up behind him to about 20 feet. My buddy heard the noise, and without putting his phone down, turned to look at the deer which immediatly ran off.
Moderation might be the key.
That is not to say that phones are always great to have in the woods. A buddy missed a really nice buck because he was so engrossed in his text messaging that he had his rifle leaned against a tree, and the deer came up behind him to about 20 feet. My buddy heard the noise, and without putting his phone down, turned to look at the deer which immediatly ran off.
Moderation might be the key.
We all get different things out of hunting. For some it is communing with nature, matching wits with a buck, tracking a coyote, or just getting out of the house and fooling around with a phone in a stand. It doesn't really matter. The point is to enjoy yourself, and if that means playing Angry Birds while glassing for deer, well be my guest. I used to be in the "get out of the stand and actually hunt" crowd, but that was my small understanding of the types of property people have access to. Not everyone has a large, or safe for that matter, tract of land to hunt. As long are you are within the limits of the law, knock yourself out.
spclpatrolgroup
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I will hunt from stands, but I bet I put in more work than 80% of the stalkers, from grooming trails, moving cameras, and jsut scouting around througouht the year. If a deer poops in teh woods, I will know where it is most likly to fall, and how to setup so I can be there to watch it.
LawScholar
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I'm a stalking hunter, but I live in Wyoming so stand isn't an option.
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