Reading while on stand

[Jeff Strubberg]

Always.  Now I use either my iphone or an old Palm TX I keep around for the purpose.  I can turn the backlighting on either way, way down to avoid lighting up my face, and both are small enough to slip easily into a pocket when deer sneak up on me with my head down!

There are several very good ebook apps for the iphone.  If you are already carrying it...

[nightowl1]

Last year I read my nursing textbook while in the blind.

Typically I will read my Bible or something by John Elderidge

[RkyMtn Joe]

WOW!  "Pages are too white" and "Turning a page is too much movement"???

I carry a paperback to my treestands all the time.  I read the two visible pages, look around carefully, then turn a page and read the next two sides before repeating the process.

Like anything else related to ambushing a deer, one has to be practical, but some of the scenarios envisioned here are just too far out.  I wonder if some of the posters have ever even been on a stand before.

Joe

[Bernie B.]

I don't read if I'm hunting deer from a tree stand or natural ground blind.  However, when turkey hunting out of pop-up blind, I always carry a paperback Western.  Read two pages, look around, quietly turn the page and continue.

Bernie Bjorklund

NC Iowa/SW Wisconsin

[Dave Lay]

Originally posted by ISP 5353:
Not any more!  I missed an opportunity on a nice deer because I was absorbed in the book and missed her slipping through.  Now, I just hunt!

same here. i had a small paperbook and had a plan to slip it in my cargo pocket of my pants if i saw anything, well along comes a doe and i cant get the dang book in my pocket.. fumbled around and missed a good chance.. i dont read any more, maybe if in a blind or something but not in a stand..

[30coupe]

I've thought about it, but I think I drag too much crap with me as it is so I haven't yet. I have an android phone now though, so I may be tempted since I'll have that with me anyway. My only concern is how long the battery will hold out.

[Jeff Strubberg]

That depends on how bright you set the backlight.  The reader app uses next to nothing, it's all about how bright you make that big lcd.

I can read on my iPhone at half brightness for many more hours than I can sit in a treestand.

The biggest problem is that hunting and archery texts are fairly rare in electronic format.  You can get some of the classics, but it doesn't seem to have occured to modern authors to produce anything other than standard print.

[macksdad]

I have a smart phone and have alot of good reading on it including the bible. Works out great just gotta use during daylight don't try it before or you'll get busted for sure

[Cyclic-Rivers]

I used to haul books with me a lot when I was in college.  

Multi Tasking. Not anymore though, when I'm Hunting I'm Hunting!,

I wait all week to hunt, why on earth would I want to do smething else, when I have waited 5 days to do what I am doing?  

It would be like waiting all year to go on Vacation, then spending the whole time in a hotel room, watching TV.   :confused:

[dixiearcher]

Cyclic Rivers has a great point! However I am still in the college stage so I am all about the multi-tasking right now. unfortunately I usually get so involved watching something that the book never gets read and I end up staying up all night catching up...   :rolleyes:

[Blueridge]

Take my Bible that my son gave me when he was in the Marine Corps. Its small and camoflaged. I start every hunt off with it right at first light.

[Hess]

I prefer to bring a Playboy magazine to the stand in that the articles are great and when you get really bored you can look at the pictures.  Good stuff.  Can't beat Ms. November in the rut.  Shoot straight.

[GreyGoose]

There's enough time in my life when I can (or have to) have my eyes on a screen on paper, so I never read while hunting.  I carry my cell phone, but turn it off until I'm out of the woods.

[dnovo]

I do it a lot.
It keeps me still and on stand a lot longer. I think it makes me more effective cause I don't have the tendency to fidget. I also read a page or 2 and look around.
Also when you knock a paperback off your tree stand seat getting up to get ready for a shot the deer usually stop and look for the noise, then they are standing still for a shot.

[Bob Palmer]

I read on stand all the time! Generally during slow periods or as incentive to give it "just a bit longer". Mostly paperbacks but reading "Hunting with the Bow and Arrow" by Saxton Pope on my IPhone this year! (Don't tell anyone but I sometimes play "Angry Birds" too   :eek:  )

That I know of, reading has only cost me one deer...a good buck! Caught movement just above my book page once in a treestand and looked up to see a nice buck passing by at 20 yards. Midday and breezy...guess I missed hearing him   :(

[finkm1]

I do, it keeps me still. I don't read the first 2 hours in the mornig or the last hour or so at night. It is getting more difficult as I age. I don't wear glasses when I shoot my bow but it is getting harder to read without glasses.I can stash my book quickly in my coat when a deer comes but can't get my glasses off without being seen.

[Hoyt]

I just hunt. Don't remember ever having the urge to bring along anything else to do.

[TxAg]

kindle

[flungonin]

I use my phone and play SUDOKO.

[Terry Lightle]

Nope.But I do a lot of bird watching