Kinda silly question...
Know we all doze off on occasion, but I use to think nothing of stretching on the leaves and getting a 20 -30 min power nap. Woke several times to a gobble.
But, with all the tick borne illnesses I'm hesitant to anymore. I've considered getting some netting and spray it down good to use on the ground.
Do y'all consciously try to catch a few Zs during the slow times? Maybe I'm just overthinking the ticks?
I always spray down with sawyer spray because of ticks and it definitely works to keep them away so you can nap!
I've never had a tick on me since using Permethrin, never not one ever, haven't seen any on my clothes it works.
Can't help but catch a nap when your waiting for the hens to leave a Gobbler and you been waking up at 2 am for 10 days in a row. Get some permethrin and have a nap lol
I have been known to get them to shock gobble while I was checking my eye lids for leaks.
I commonly go in early enough I sleep til daylight. I've also taken a quick nap in slow times.
I was thinking of changing my handle SleepySaurus
Nothing like a good ole nap in the spring woods. I call it having patience.
I take a nap atleast once a day. Sometimes its just for a minute sometimes 5 or 10. Last year me and my dad where hunting on opposite sides of a big field. Birds had been quiet for days and we had seen some birds out in this field a time or two. So we just setup to do some light calling. Well wouldnt you know I see 3 gobblers pop out into the corner of the field. I thought for sure that looks like it must be by dad. They must here him calling. Well they walk right out into the middle of this big firld. I try to get him on the radio but nothing. I assume he shut it when he saw the birds. Finally he is on the radio I say dad where are you he says right in the corner. Thats when I told him the birds where just there. He looks to his right and they where right there and now they where out of range. I said where you sleeping, No answer. That was the last morning of a 10 day hunt. Lets just say he is still made at himself.
My turkey lounger is just right for that mid-morning nap. I took a nice nap today after only seeing one turkey in four days of hunting. I did manage to call in a cottontail to my decoys, perhaps a new way to hunt bunnies!
Quote from: guesswho on April 12, 2019, 07:00:19 PM
I have been known to get them to shock gobble while I was checking my eye lids for leaks.
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Hard not to nap in the spring woods with the sun shining down on me. I call it strategizing.
Heck !!! One of the landmarks on our property is the Turkey Sleepin' Log.
It's in a great late day area and doggoned if it ain't darned near shaped like a La-Z-Boy recliner !! I've sawed LOTS of regular logs reclined against the Turkey Sleepin' Log....................
I can be as tired as ever and as soon as I try and nap I wake right up, as soon as I close my eyes I think I'm missing something.
A good friend of mine who is about the level of Elmer Fudd as far as a hunter can sleep with the best of em!
My wife would always ask to sit in a nice sunny spot on those beautiful April mornings so she could doze off!
I intentionly look for big trees in the shadows that have built in "armrest". That way I can play Rip Van Winkle when things appear slow. I have been woken up more than once to clucks and purrs...Never a gobble though thank goodness, because I might have messed my trousers.
I've been known to catch a few z's in the woods especially after a good lunch. Get a hammock. You can fit it in your vest and can use it on just about any two sturdy tree's plus your up off the ground. It would probably be pretty tough to kill a bird if one worked in on you though.
Heck at times it's part of my strategy, Gobblers been hearing that hen all morning while he's been taking care of business, now she's all quiet over there, better go find her. GOBBLE, GOBBLE where you at honey? 30 minutes of cat naps happens throughout my spring.
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I have been woken up to gobblers mid day every season. It's my plan around lunch if nothing happened yet.
Go to a known area that holds birds, call a little and nap, wait to hear one pop off who works his way in. I think from far off when they get close they gobble to try to see where that hen is at! Happens pretty much every season for me.
I've been known to all our lay down and just go to sleep lol
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I do some of my best hunting when I sleep
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Quote from: j.goebel on April 12, 2019, 06:48:03 PM
I always spray down with sawyer spray because of ticks and it definitely works to keep them away so you can nap!
I use Sawyer Spray too and it's amazing. I've picked up a tick before, placed it on my pants and watched it die. Since I started using it 5 years ago I haven't had a tick latch onto me.
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The only time I worry about ticks is when I don't have any clothes treated in my permethrin mix. When I go I treat everything but my underwear. I wear these thigh high under armor socks that I treat and then all my outer and under garments minus the drawls. I never have a tick on me. Period
I'm guilty. For me turkey hunting and a good nap go hand in hand at times.
Yep, enjoy it immensely. No ticks to worry about here in New Mexico, but Permethrin every were else I hunt.
I even fall asleep in the blind, the trick is not falling off the chair. I have never used it before but after reading about it here I bought some water based Permethrin and will be using it this year.
That's the closest to God that I'll ever be! Beautiful spring morning and dozing off under a big oak tree.
Tic born illness has been around long before you took your first nap in the woods. Nap away.
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Quote from: SD_smith on April 13, 2019, 12:27:57 AM
That's the closest to God that I'll ever be! Beautiful spring morning and dozing off under a big oak tree.
yes to this, CAT NAPPERS BEWARE! Dozed off in turkey woods, herd something in leaves, looked up BOBCAT 10 yards from me. Scared us both almost to death. This is not the only encounter like this.
Lol I fall asleep on purpose that way I know I'm not moving. I know the worry of ticks keeps me upright when aI would love to lay down on an all day hunt.
I've had great luck with permethrin to. I guess you could get a tick in your head hair if your laying right in the ground. A little treated piece of fabric would fix you right up. Now about those snakes though. Actually this reminds me of one morning on a camping trip of me waking myself up by smushing a spider in my ear. Dang it that still gives me the hibijibees.
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I've had some serious horizontal meditation in the turkey woods
Quote from: Gooserbat on April 13, 2019, 11:35:12 PM
I've had some serious horizontal meditation in the turkey woods
"Horizontal meditation"......................
CLASSIC !!!!!!!!!!!! ;D
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ uh hughh waht
Best way I know how to use the ole shut up tactic. Otherwise I can't seem to keep the calls out of my hands.
Ticks are scary though so Sawyers is on the clothes.
I sleep when I'm turkey hunting and Deer hunting (on the ground of course). I love to find a nice little incline and put my head up hill and sleep for awhile. As far as the tick thing goes, if your wearing a light jacket with a hood or leafy suit with a hood, just put your hood up and nap away. If your upper garment don't have a hood just lay your head on the softest part of your turkey vest. That's what i usually do.
Seems like I'm always sleeping in the woods.
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A nap in the deer and turkey woods is the most relaxing sleep you can get. For some reason I never go out cold, but its always a nice light sleep where I can wake up to sudden sounds or in 5 minutes intervals. A few years ago I opened my eyes after napping in the stand and had 4 racked bucks at 5 yards. Naps help you sit still ;)
I don't worry about ticks too much. It's usually been so cold leading up to The Opener that I hardly ever get one. Occasionally, I'll get a turkey mite or two in the last week of season.
I have no qualms about taking a nap while turkey hunting. My favorite time to sleep is in the 8 O'clock hour. By then all of the flydown hubbub has ended, and any action that is going to come of it has already transpired. Around 9, I'll often hear gobbling again, and if I don't I'll still blind call and see what I can shake up. 8-9 is always time for either napping or reading a book.
Another time I like to take a nap is in the middle of the afternoon. I'll go somewhere like one of my old barns, and call like the dickens for while, and then go quiet and settle in for nap. When I wake up, I'll call again, and often get answer from a gob that's been working his way to me over the previous hour. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Sleeping is the only way I sit still. I lost contact with a bird yesterday right after flydown, so I decided to snooze (actually, the warm sunlight decided for me). His drumming right beside me woke me up quick! BOOM!
As for ticks, I spray my clothes down with Sawyers and don't worry about it.
Turkey naps are the best naps
Nothing like a nap in the turkey woods.
I've fallen asleep in the turkey woods, but admittedly, not too often. My young daughter has caught a nap the past two times out with me.
Last year, at 7 years old, she tagged along, and she became quite adept at using a box call. She asked if she could take a nap whilst I chased a bird down the canyon, and I agreed.
After about 1/2 hour, I start hearing a hen yelping above me, before I realized it was my daughter. She was smart enough to use a hen call to get my attention rather than yelling down at me "DADDY, I'M AWAKE NOW!" We ended up killing a nice tom on the walk back (her calling actually drummed up a gobble).
Not sure that being awake would deter ticks though? I rarely have been aware when one gets on me until I get home... Hopefully not attached yet, but I have pulled a few out.