How can you do it ?

[Pine]

How can you sit all quite and still with nothing to do out there ?
How can you not be  playing video games or watching TV ?
Isn't it boaring just listening to the breeze in the trees ?
What's so neat about birds and squirrels ?
How can you just sit there until it's to dark to see ?
How can you do it ?
 
What's the allure ?
..........
If I need to explain it to you , you wouldn't understand .
   

[highlow]

It's getting harder and harder since the padding on my posterior ain't what it used to be. But I still tough it out, waiting for you know what. Plus the fact that so many other things can and do happen. Things that folks who don't do what we do will never get to see or experience. Their loss.

[bowfanatik]

Because I am sick of civilization and phone , tv , tv show , celebrity's , politics do you need more ?
In Wood's , I'm close to my God's

[ChuckC]

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ChuckC

[Shadowhnter]

Its very, very easy to be out all day. What bothers me, is having to come back to the rat race.

[Bvas]

How ca you not?
I love this time of year. Each time I sit a stand the view changes. More leaves fall and I can see just a little further.

[Archer1991]

I like sitting outdoors than indoors. My view from yesterday.

[Archer1991]

My bad,sorry. Have to figure the picture thing.  

[Trenton G.]

Days like today are reason enough. The weather was cool, the leaves were falling, and colors are in full bloom.
My grades always suffer a bit during this time of year, but I figure that I'm learning more important stuff in the woods. It's no fun to have to stay indoors writing essays when that's outside waiting.

[Friend]

Opening your mind, heart and soul and realizing your integral relationship to the gifted creation radiates true joy while detaching from illusory substitutes.

[mgf]

As much as I LOVE to be in the woods or on the water I'm a lousy deer hunter because I'm no good at sitting still for a long time waiting for a deer that almost NEVER shows up. LOL

I haven't had much in the way of quality deer hunting available so all the sitting is usually done with little hope of actually seeing a deer.

I scouted a new property yesterday. It's been 20 years since I had a chance to deer hunt private property but a gent I work with gave me permission to hunt his farm.

Not much in the way of "woods" but I scouted a tree line that runs along a creek (his property line) and runs to a wooded corner of about 2 acres.

It's loaded with pignut hickory that don't appear to have dropped nuts this year. I spied one fresh acorn and no sign of squirrel cutting anyplace.

I sat for a while and didn't see so much as a squirrel or chipmunk. I did see one old squirrel nest. There weren't even many birds. I saw a few nut hatchers and heard a jay off in the distance someplace. I was ALONE. LOL

I counted 4 tree stands hung in that little patch of woods. Thankfully, there was nobody in them so I didn't wreck anybody's hunt. It's a good thing I wasn't looking to hang a stand because there's already one in about every tree. LOL

I've been dabbling at deer hunting for more than 30 years. While there have been some exceptions and I have a few stories to tell, this is pretty typical of my deer hunting experiences.

It doesn't take too much of that to bore me to tears. Once the weather turns cold, the pain combines with the boredom to bring on the tears that much sooner. LOL

[Bowwild]

My tree stands are time machines.  

I ride them back to recall wonderful memories through more than 4 decades.  

They take me forward to the next imagined encounter.

[wooddamon1]

 

Always something nice to look at while waiting...

[degabe]

It is the best place I have found to hide from the wife.

[nineworlds9]

Originally posted by bowfanatik:
Because I am sick of civilization and phone , tv , tv show , celebrity's , politics do you need more ?
In Wood's , I'm close to my God's

^^^same here

[IndaTimber]

How can you not? I just flat out enjoy being outdoors!

[elkhunter-27]

I love being in the woods, heck, I live there!  I must admit I can't usually sit all day without a book.  I'll read a paragraph, look around, read another, etc.  Every few pages I'll stop and watch for deer for 5-10 minutes then back to the book.  I read quite a bit more in my blinds than I do in my treestands. A word of caution, don't read anything by John Grisham, they're too hard to put down.  

[Yewbender]

I do it because its peaceful, relaxing, get to see the beauty of nature surrounding me and i could go on. For me it's the best medicine to clear all the worries of todays crazy world away.

[BAK]

I guess cause it's the only place I feel at home.

[Jake Scott]

It comes easy for me.  I'm a young-ish fellow, but I have found that as I age those long, cold trees stand sits are getting easier.  It's easy for me because I KNOW, without a shadow of doubt that when I'm in the woods chasing critters I am doing what I was put on this earth to do.  I believe that a select few  humans (mostly traditional bowhunters, these days) are apex predators.  I count myself among them, not because I kill with a certain consistency, or because I kill trophy animals, but because my life is consumed by outdoor pursuits and constantly improving my woodsmanship and field craft.  I work a fulfilling career, because like many others I must.  The only thing I take more serious than being afield is being a good father and husband, and I use the outdoors to be a better father and husband.  The outdoors is in our blood.  It calls to me when I can't be there.  I appreciate this thread because until now I haven't taken time to reflect on why some folks are content to be inside, on their devices, or in front of the tv, and why some of us are in the woods and wild places, even when we aren't.  

I have a beautiful wife, and a perfect little boy, and I have the whole of the natural world where adventure lies behind every tree and over the next ridge.....I'm the luckiest man alive.

Good thread,

Jake