We've been over a lot of things to do to get ready, this one is important. What do you guys/gals not eat or extremely limit before sitting to these birds?
Now I realize all us have had the urges hit and succumbed to them with a working bird. I will be nice since I'm fairly newbie here, but a dead bird is very important in my book. I've got towels for the ride home.
Nah. I have a pretty robust stomach and my hunting style doesn't have me sitting motionless for very long.
I'd shy away from Mexican food :turkey2:
I typically wouldn't really eat much before the hunt as i leave way too early. Deer, turkey, ducks, you just ain't beating me unless you showed up yesterday is my sop.
Not hungry at 1:30-200 so i typically throw a bagel or something in my pocket. Often eating it way into morning or just before first light. Be advised if you use a mouth call you need a drink to wash out too.
Almost always, and i don't wanna be disgusting, but i either use the john before i leave house or on the way up hill to the birds.
Some guys get real anxious and constantly need to go when things get close. If youre one,, eat nothing til you cant take it than eat a granola or something. Remember your drink.
My buddy's used to field trial with me. The whole damn ride they were eating tums and pit stopping at every rest area. I started just driving alone cause a few times we drove 4 hours to get to a trial and were minutes after closing. The constant pit stops cost us.
Relax and enjoy your hunt. Eat when you get hungry and good luck
I'm just making funny conversation before the season. I saw some cartoon type thing on facebook while watching the Alabama basketball game last night, the guy was going through things not to eat before climbing into a deer stand. The game got boring as all get out with the fouls.
I thought it might be fun on here to see. 31 views so far and only 3 replies, that's no fun. You old timers help these young folks out.
I'm with Bowguy and Happy, I can drink black coffee anytime, it doesn't really affect me, with Bowguy, I'm going to be the first to the woods, you aren't going to beat me!!!!!!!!! Black coffee set on a timer, pour into a thermos and pour a cup, throw on clothes, grab gun, bag, load my pockets, I'm out the door. I'm one that doesn't have to eat, I can go all day. The thermos is for the cleaning time and the drive home. Nope, I don't take water, I generally may have a payday in the satchel, if I do fine, if I don't fine. Somedays I get to hunt all day, some days I'm on a schedule.
I thought it might be fun to discuss this fun, delicate matter.
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I can generally tell well in advance of an encounter with a gobbler that I need to address certain functions beforehand. I have gotten pretty good as realizing that things can't wait. Unlike a few others here apparently, I am not inclined to "let 'er rip" in my drawers in order to preserve the opportunity to kill a gobbler. If the choice must be made, the shorts are dropping. ;D
Since it's "true confessions" time, my biggest problems almost always occur in transit to my chosen hunting location. That is, because the nearest turkeys to where I live are roughly a two-hour drive...and I have to drive through "inhabited" locations to get there...it is uncanny how that "irresistible urge" to take care of business invariably takes place at the most inopportune times...i.e. right when I am driving through the most densely populated area along my drive.
One finds, as one gets older, that the ability to "hold things" tends to be inversely correlated to one's age. Hence, I always keep the required "accoutrements" close at hand when action must be taken posthaste. Suffice it to say, I have learned where the nearest bushes, trees, and other close-by hiding places are along most of my routes anymore...and hope like heck there is time to get there. :angel9: