Trad Gang

Well for me on the East coast this is a pretty good thing.It will allow me to hunt some of my favorite stands in the morning,with it being light a little earlier. I can now hunt in the AM and get the kids to school on time. Most stand's I have for night hunts will be more productive due to people not running around on quads and dirt bikes. The earlier sunset doesn't give people who wander around my hunting holes time to get out disrupt the area.  Anybody else get better results from the daylight savings?

Other than it sucks getting up earlier, I don't mind it. Being retired kind of adds to my flexibility though.    :rolleyes:

I know that first work day after returning to Standard Time in the fall kills me.  I get all messed up driving home in the dark.  It is nice for the mornings though.

I hate it. I hunt mostly evenings and it cuts an hour off my evening sits.

I really don't care for it, either.  I start work at 0530, so it is dark either way.  I lose an hour of hunting daylight in the afternoon.  I can't complain, though.  I am lucky to have a job.

daylight savings time is like cutting a foot from the bottom of your blanket and sewing it to the top.

What I hate is the end of it, in the spring, during turkey season. Just when I get them patterned, they wake up the morning of the change and it's still dark. It messes up their patterns for about a week, until they learn to sleep a little later. Turkeys aren't very smart.   ;)  

I actually heard of a woman writing to the local newspaper complaining that the time change affected her prize roses.

Worst idea ever! Dark at 5 PM looong, dark evenings and nights.

Wish we stayed on daylight saving time year round.

I am not a fan myself.  Set the time and keep it that way.

God Bless,
Nathan

So do we fall back this Sunday?

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So do we fall back this Sunday?

spring ahead and fall back -asleep and you won't get to hunt.

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So do we fall back this Sunday?

spring ahead and fall back -asleep and you won't get to hunt. [/b]

That could be a BIG OOOOOPS   :coffee:

I don't like it.   :readit:  

But I have no control over it   :dunno:

I don't like it because I don't like to go to work in the dark and come back in the dark.  I would rather turn the clock the other way an hour so I could do something when I get home during the work week.  I am very happy that they pushed the date of the change farther into the fall.  

It could be dark until noon as far as I am concerned.  Then I could sleep in on my days off and still make it into my stand by sun up. I could hunt till 10 at night.  That would be great.

I get on a 5 AM get up schedule early in the hunting season and kind of stay on it.  Got up way earlier than I need to this morning, but next week I will be right on schedule again.

I like it...shooting light by 5:40. I have to be at work by 8:30. I get 2 1/2 hours on stand. Alot can happen in that amount of time  :)

It works out great for me because I work swing shift. It gives me more daylight hours to hunt.  :bigsmyl:

I don't like it when Daylight Savings Time ends because it causes it to get cold out. Ya know, one less hour of daylight! It's true, the proof is in the spring when Savings Time kicks in and it causes the weather to warm up. Every time... :biglaugh:   :laughing:

I hate it. I will be hunting IL next week and will just leave the clock as is and change when I am done hunting. Might be getting to my stand an hour late but by the sun I will be in the stand same as everyone else. If I was retired(tired after being tired?) I woudl let the closck catch back-up in the sping.

One Thing About Working 7 to 7, Its Dark when Ya Go In, and Its Dark When Ya Get Off Work!!  :laughing:

QuoteOriginally posted by KentuckyTJ:
I hate it. I hunt mostly evenings and it cuts an hour off my evening sits.

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If I remember correctly we are going back to the normal clock time in the fall and start dst in the spring.  This got started in the Big War to allow more work to be accomplished without the use of artifical lighting.  That is the story I heard, anyway.  Funny, how we get accustomed to nice conviences.

i heard it was for the farmers.i don't know how true that is though.hey Christofer,i haven't heard from you in a while.i hope you are doing well,steve

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I hate it. I hunt mostly evenings and it cuts an hour off my evening sits.

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I don;t think about the time as much when I'm in the woods or headed to the woods as I can see when it's getting light enough to shoot and when its too dark to shoot in the evenings.

It just means I have to switch watches.

I found it easier to switch watches than to try to reset them..lol

God bless,Mudd

i agree with xtrema312! i hate it when i get home and its dark  cant do anything outside and by 8p.m. it feels like bedtime  not that i need a reason but i get very lazy that time of year

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I don't like it because I don't like to go to work in the dark and come back in the dark.  I would rather turn the clock the other way an hour so I could do something when I get home during the work week.  I am very happy that they pushed the date of the change farther into the fall.  

It could be dark until noon as far as I am concerned.  Then I could sleep in on my days off and still make it into my stand by sun up. I could hunt till 10 at night.  That would be great.

I get on a 5 AM get up schedule early in the hunting season and kind of stay on it.  Got up way earlier than I need to this morning, but next week I will be right on schedule again.

"Todd for President"!!!

NO, don't like the change! Like said earlier, depending on what part of the country, and the shift you work, it does mess with your schedule!

Indiana was one of 3 states, up until a few years ago, who didn't change. Then our great state goverment, said changing, would bring more jobs to us! Tell that to the unemployed along the state line of Illinois.

Change is Always good, isn't it?

That's why we are Traditional?

Good shootin,

Steve

QuoteOriginally posted by KentuckyTJ:
I hate it. I hunt mostly evenings and it cuts an hour off my evening sits.

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QuoteOriginally posted by KentuckyTJ:
I hate it. I hunt mostly evenings and it cuts an hour off my evening sits.

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I leave for work at 0400 and get back home at 1900........that pretty well takes care of the day for me. Of course, I don't work 5 days a week either.

Getting up earlier and returning home earlier from hunts makes it seem to me like there isn't the same amount of time to spend in the woods, even though it's exactly the same.

Winterhawk1960

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I hate it. I hunt mostly evenings and it cuts an hour off my evening sits.

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Sucks the big weiner. Getting up at 4 AM was almost impossible. Getting up at 3 is just frankly, ridiculous. I have to travel a minimum of 1 hour to the WMA I'm trying to hunt. I'm naturally a night owl & the evenings is where it's at for me. Winter sucks  :(

I never used to mind it. But, now I can't stand the fact it gets dark so early. By 5pm. it seems like it's the middle of the night.

we dont lose or gain any daylight hours. The only thing that changes is our clocks. The critters still have the same patterns, and since they dont wear watches they have no clue. The only difference is we gotta get up an hour earlier, and in the evening we're back in camp an hour earlier. If Im in deer camp the weekend we change, I dont change my clocks until I go home, then I dont feel like Im getting shorted an hour of sleep.

Either keep it or get rid of it. I don't like the changes. It's really unnecessary. (nut)

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I hate it. I hunt mostly evenings and it cuts an hour off my evening sits.

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I don't mind it too much.  I have a young family and on daylight savings time it puts me getting home pretty late. I get home before bedtime and get to see my girls on standard time.  I guess its all relative to your each individual and how much travel time to hunting areas.

Same with me Robtattoo. I have to get up at 3am to get to my spot 1 1/2 hours away.

I'm indifferent.  I usually wake up early any way...  I gotta agree with what one post said earlier, the critters don't have watches..so what does it matter?

Go to work in the dark.

Come home in the dark.

Can't hunt evenings.

Can't get anything done around the house.

What's not to love?

Wish they would just leave it alone.  I could care less if it is dark when I'm driving to work in the morning,  who cares?  I get there, go inside and start doing my thing.  It's day light before long anyway.  I'd rather have the extra daylight at the end of the day after I'm done with work so I can actually do something with it - like Hunt!

I'm looking forward to it, helps me out in the AM as well!

I say let's move it a half hour and leave it alone.

I'm screwed up for a good two weeks each spring and fall trying to reset my biological clock.

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I always see more action in the evenings anyways.I have to be at work at 630am.