Sitting

[Chris Steele]

When I was younger I could sit a stand all day long,but now I can't wait to see what is ahead.Anybody else feel this way,it just feels better to be moving along slow and enjoying what I see.

[maineac]

It is often hard to sit, but I find i see more when i am patient, other than waving flags.

[Bonebuster]

I have no problem sitting until I have meat in the freezer.

After I have been hunting for a while, I can find myself wandering.

[John Scifres]

I'm good for a couple hours, maybe longer during the rut and then I have to stillhunt.  I've pretty much always been this way.  I love to still hunt.  Move slow and then move slower.  The view changes with every step  

[owlbait]

I believe impatience is contagious. I have caught it from my elementary students. I use to be able to sit for hours. 15 minutes max now!

[GRINCH]

I'm like a figgidy kid in a stand can't seem to keep still so yea I can relate.

[Eugene Slagle]

I've been known to sit for a few hours & then on occasion sleep but then I've been known to still hunt to look for new areas or oporatunaties.

[NBK]

I think sitting on the stand is like any other aspect of life.  I can't just sit all day on my first day out.  It takes a couple of sits of a few hours to get me "conditioned" for the all-day sit.  That said when I get in the tree knowing that more than likely my feet won't hit the ground for 11hrs I mentally shut the system down.  I try not to think about much, I'm just on scan mode! picking up the little sounds or movement that doesn't fit. Time seems to fly by.  I'd love to still hunt, but in our area with thick spruce swamps and no elevation changes sitting is FAR more productive.

[$bowhunter$]

if the conditions arent exactly how i want it then i got to be on the move. i have been able to get very close to game this way. just take really slow steps and when u think ur going slow enough, slow down even more. it seems more questionable what ill run into making it very exciting. i LOVE turkeys. hearing them gooble back start struting. something about them makes my hair stand on end. so where they go, i just follow to see what i see.


steven

[ishoot4thrills]

As it gets later in the season I find myself unable to stay as long on stand for two reasons:

1) It's getting colder.
2) After the crops are harvested I don't see very many deer where I hunt because there isn't much cover to hold deer in the area very long. So I get impatient sooner and find myself on the ground "prospecting".

[Covey]

I never was good at sitting still. I usually evening hunt for deer so I try to get at least 3 to 4 hours in before dark. That's about all I'm good for... unless there's deer moving, then I can sit longer!  :D  Jason

[Coonbait]

I love scouting out a great location and then planting myself down. I've hunted a lot of the same farms for years and know where to start and then fine tune from daily observations of deer movements. I'm not patient enough when I'm on the move. I always seem to end up watching were I step, not out in front of me.
GLENN

[Swamp Yankee]

As long as something moving to watch (squirrels, birds, deer etc) I'm good for 3 or 4 hours.  On those DEAD days when nothing is moving at all; I'm done in an hour.

[ckanous]

I have blown many opportunities the past few years do to fact of gettin out of the stand to walk around. I keep saying I'm gonna control myself and try to hang out more in the stand then get out of the woods but I can't do it. I don't have a problem sitting still I just feel like I might be missing something on the othere side of the hill or in the bottom so I take off. Now when it comes to blinds I can't stand it at all! I feel like I'm missing something because I can't see like I can when I'm in a stand. I guess I'm just always "HUNTING" around!!!!!

[rdoggsilva]

I have tried to sit in a stand, but just can not do it. So much to see that I have to keep moving. Our archery season is August to Sept, the best time to see the country here in the Rockies. I just move slow, glass and keep my eyes open. Also the biggest thing is I have fun.

[Night Wing]

When I'm bowhunting deer, I sit. When I'm bowhunting rabbits, I still hunt. When I'm bowhunting javelina, I still hunt and if I find one, then I stalk.

[Swiftspeed10]

When I gun hunt I prefer to sit, when bowhunting I like tracking and stalking/still hunting.  Guess thats why I am the worlds must unsuccessful bowhunter lol.

[Montanawidower]

No problem sitting.  I end up playing mental games though.  I'm always saying, just 30 minutes longer.  Just one hour longer. I can't tell you how many times I have had deer show up just as I'm lowering my bow to the ground, packing up, unhooking my safety strap etc.  Missed out on a great shooter this year in just such manner.  I try to remind myself of this often. It's sort of an ironic mental trick I'm playing on the deer.  I'm leaving in 30 minutes...... Fooled you!!  I'm staying.  I know... I need mental help.  

[JEFF B]

i have never hunted in a tree but i can sit at the Bottom of a tree and get chiggers no problem other than that i spot and stalk.

[boznarras]

I am working on sitting more.
I don't have a tree stand, but try to use ground cover.
I just got a bush in a bag, and am practicing with it some now. My wife is amused no end by that, so I am accomplishing something already.