How many of us are like this....

[neskora]

I definitely am... especially during rifle season... I park my truck about 20 yards from my blind around a corner and crawl in with a buffet of junk food and water... I like to take one of my little brothers or my girlfriend and have a nice chat too... that's what hunting is about for me... to relax and have fun... I'm all about gettin something, but I'd rather have a good time anyday

[rehmeyer1977]

I am somewhere in between your two choices. I like getting to the bind/stand early, because i like being out there.

[Jaspro]

I get in stand about 30 minutes before sunup, usually wearing sweats and a t-shirt, Stay until an hour after I see my last animal. Alot of times too my blind is my pickup as I sit overlooking the wheat fields.

[Chew]

I have been known to grab a thermos of coffee, my .264, and wear my work clothes to the blind and shoot a big arse buck and get it mounted and never post a story on TBH

Fixed it for ya brother!

[Dale Moser]

I'm not above hidin the 4runner, or the pickup behind a tree or something with a cooler full of beer in the back seat.......and hunting while listening to the radio either! You'd be surprised how little attention critters will pay to a big white truck.....

[Brad]

I park 100 yards away.
I get there 15 minutes before I can legally shoot.
I leave by 9:30 at the latest no matter if it's DST or not.
Afternoon hunts I will get there a little earlier (4:30 or so) to just enjoy the afternoon/have a beer.
If it's hot, I hunt in shorts with my leafy suit and pray my tripod is high enough to keep my scent up in the clouds
I want to kill monster deer, but I could really care less if it doesn't happen. I'm not THAT MAD at the deer, and I honestly don't think I could sit in a stand for an hour and a half before I could even see my hand in front of my face. I have a hard enough time staring out of the same shooting lane for 2 hours after daylight.

[smokin6.7]

A few years ago I quit working so hard at hunting and started having more fun with it. Now when I want to stay around camp drinking beer and cooking that's what I do. When my son is in the blind making too much racket, so be it. My number one priority is having fun and spending time with my family outdoors.

[Codie]

I am right there with ya -

No extra money on SCENT FREE garb - Just make sure I (or my clothes) don't smell
No scent spray or killer
No special place to keep my hunting clothes (other than in the hunting closet)
No worrying about the lack of activity in October - I have been doing this long enough to know that October hunting can't even hold a candle to the late season hunting when the animals are NEEDING the feed you have scattered on the ground. But I still enjoy getting out there in October and enjoying the outdoors. I have come to realize that driving to my stand just won't work in the mornings - If I drive in on morning hunts, I don't see squat, if I walk, I see all the deer that I normally see on my trail cams every day. Place is only 600 acres and every deer on the place hears me coming down the road if I drive in so I will continue to walk from the house instead of driving in.

[Randy]

Im pretty much the same way.... its not that serious of a game.

Hunting to me is a 50/50 proposition anyways

50% luck and 50% being in a target rich environment

I dont carry a backpack full of **** to the stand.. a bow/gun, binos and a pocket knife is about all I need.

I get to my stand about at the break of daylight. Usually end up trying to get in my stand without spooking the deer that are already out.

I dont waste my money on scents but I believe dead down wind works for bowhunting.

I cough when I need to and pee when I have to and still seem to stay covered up in deer.

[aggie2000tx]

I have been way laid back on hunting this year. I have not even hunted so far this year. My wife thinks that I am sick. It was way to hot in west texas for me to even go hunting at all. I just made a decision that I would let bow season go this year and start hunting during rifle season. I knew also this year that I would not have as much time to hunt also so that may also have something to do with it.

[Swampa]

I'm not above hidin the 4runner, or the pickup behind a tree or something with a cooler full of beer in the back seat.......and hunting while listening to the radio either! You'd be surprised how little attention critters will pay to a big white truck.....

I've had some great hunts listening to college football and drinking beer in the truck.

[J-Bone]

I'll hunt hard to kill my trophy with my bow. I pick my battles on how far I go though. For instance, I spent over an hour setting up and brushing in the blind that I killed my 181 in. Yet, I shot him in the same clothes I was in while spending the time to set the blind 5 hours earlier.

Now that has happened, it's all blue jeans/shorts, T-Shirts, and the .257 mag. My next set of goals are to get all of the "good" young deer on video and help others (friends/family) find a mature buck for them. This has made the season even more enjoyable for me than it already was.

[nanny_slammer]

ground threat...im the exact same way...put a little spray on if i think about it before i go to the stand, have my bro drop me off on the wheeler and make a little noise opening my coke and crunching noise when im eating peanut butter crackers. i honestly have had more and way better luck doing that than the full all out scent control and quietness.....matter of fact i was rifle hunting at our place in zapata cty last year and had quite a few deer on the road...well the wind was bad and the door blew open on the blind and out goes my gun with the door...so i crawled out of the blind picked up my gun ran the wheeler down the road and fed again crawled back in the blind and ten minutes later i shot the doe i had picked out before the gun went airborne!! there were still a few deer in the road as all this was happening also to say the least! the gun was a remington 7mm topped with a burris scope and the gun was shooting the same as if it never fell out of the stand...i was shocked to say the least... any way this is a great thread and every one has their way and i respect it and good luck to all this season

[aggie2000tx]

I'm not above hidin the 4runner, or the pickup behind a tree or something with a cooler full of beer in the back seat.......and hunting while listening to the radio either! You'd be surprised how little attention critters will pay to a big white truck.....

Dale you need to come hunting with me.

[Jaspro]

Now that has happened, it's all blue jeans/shorts, T-Shirts, and the .257 mag. My next set of goals are to get all of the "good" young deer on video and help others (friends/family) find a mature buck for them. This has made the season even more enjoyable for me than it already was.

You got my elk staked down yet?