Overnights

[longspeak74]

Anyone ever spend a night in their ground blind or strapped into their tree stand? I've always been intrigued and wanted to try it...thinking this might be the year.

 

[rclouse79]

Slept in my ground blind for antelope once going into opening morning. In Idaho it is first come first serve, even if it is not your blind. I was paranoid there was going to be some turd already in my blind when I got there. I guess somebody has the right to set their blind up right next to yours on public land, although most guys seem pretty respectful.

 

[cuttiebrownbow]

I can't think of one reason why I would want to spend a night in my tree stand.

 

[Dvidos]

Slept in my ground blind for antelope once going into opening morning. In Idaho it is first come first serve, even if it is not your blind. I was paranoid there was going to be some turd already in my blind when I got there. I guess somebody has the right to set their blind up right next to yours on public land, although most guys seem pretty respectful.

+1

 

[SteveCNJ]

Anyone ever spend a night in their ground blind or strapped into their tree stand? I've always been intrigued and wanted to try it...thinking this might be the year.

I have thought about it when I had a stand where you can't help spooking the deer on the way in but never got around to doing it. Now I'd probably scare them away with my snoring.

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[Broomd]

When I was a kid I lived near the Indiana Dunes State Park.
A school mate I knew killed some monster whitetail bucks by strapping himself into a treestand for nights on end until he bowkilled a passing buck. He had everything he needed, pee bottle, water, munchies...
There was no hunting allowed in that state park and he moved around like a ninja. He used a bicycle for moving in and out of his area and loaded his ill-gotten deer after dark.

He was a certified deer-hunting lunatic. The park rangers would have flayed him alive....

 

[GunsAreFun]

I’ve thought about doing it in my blind but haven’t done it yet. No way in hell I’d sleep through the night in a tree.

 

[SoDaky]

Scent.No.

 

[Dexter Grayson]

Done it for Bears, froze my nuts off. Definitely not worth it!

 

[longspeak74]

I think it just adds another element to the hunt. The blind would be more comfortable, clearly.

 

[cuttiebrownbow]

How does it add another element to the hunt? Just go camp lol

I think scent would be the biggest issue if you did try it.

 

[Ace12]

I’ve thought about it in one of my box blinds just because it’s so hard to get into it for morning hunts without blowing deer out. Maybe one of these days

 

[Dead eye BT]

I have a hunting partner who has done it many times- first time when he was about 16 and most recently at age 48. Mostly in the open, stuffed into a sleeping bag, in a hang-on stand. I’m not interested in trying it!

 

[longspeak74]

I would be trying this in a hang on stand as well. I just think it would be a neat experience being totally exposed out in the woods at night.

 

[Poser]

There is a somewhat noteworthy Bowhunters from TN who has killed an incredible amount of huge bucks over the years who has successfully used this tactic many times to get in on top of a bedding area. I never did it myself but I’ve definitely been in a stand as early as 3:30 am before and I was always an advocate of staying out In Your tree until well after dark, at least 30+ minutes in order to avoid bumping deer on the way out.

 

[Where's Bruce?]

Slept in a ground blind several times while doing ADC work for ranchers. I'd tie cans to the afterbirth or a killed calf to alert me to the presence of predators, then shoot em from the blind in the middle of the night. This is necessary during calving season to protect the cattle ranchers newborns. Had a cot, ice chest, portable john and gun on a tripod all ready to go. Even had carpeting in it to ensure I was silent when moving around.

 

[Huntnnw]

I have 3 times, once for elk and twice for some giant whitetails. It almost worked on all 3 occasions and saw my target animals in bow range, couldnt draw, something in the way etc. I killed both whitetails anyway later in season. reason I slept in stand was a Sept 1 opener and there was 0 way to enter a morning stand without pushing the buck out the only way was to hunt the evening and stay all night worked like a charm

 

[timekiller13]

I have slept in a box blind/shooting house before. Private lease, you had to ride a 1 mile ROW on a ATV to get to the property, and then ride another 3/4 mile to the top of the mountain to get to where the stand was. I would ride up the evening before gun season opened, park my ATV under the stand and curl up and sleep on the floor. Wake up in the morning and shoot a big buck. It was by no means roughing it, though. 6'x8' shooting house with a propane heater and small Coleman cook stove.

I would never sleep in a hang on tree stand or climber over night. Not that dedicated. I have got into the stand at 3am before, tight to a bedding area, to beat the deer to that spot.

 

[Quin]

I considered this numerous times for a stand I had. It overlooked a bedding area and it was more or less impossible to get into without spooking animals. I always chickened out because of the wind and cold (it was an absolutely miserable and sometimes unnerving sit anytime the wind was blowing) and I was too paranoid about falling out (even with a harness, the prospect of dangling there in the dark was not appealing).

 

[BeastOfTheTrees]

When I was a kid I lived near the Indiana Dunes State Park.
A school mate I knew killed some monster whitetail bucks by strapping himself into a treestand for nights on end until he bowkilled a passing buck. He had everything he needed, pee bottle, water, munchies...
There was no hunting allowed in that state park and he moved around like a ninja. He used a bicycle for moving in and out of his area and loaded his ill-gotten deer after dark.

He was a certified deer-hunting lunatic. The park rangers would have flayed him alive....

that man sounds like an animal.