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Pope & Young
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: San Antonio hunt Medina/Atascosa
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I just don't get posting while you hunt...
Please. I'm not smacking on anyone.
I know I'm old school but it's seems really weird to me to stay on the iphone/blackberry/whatever while you are hunting... I guess the biggest thing I have always enjoyed about hunting is the solitude and quiet and the almost zen like "perfect stillness" and just absorb whats going on around you. I know everyone has their own way of enjoying the outdoors and I appreciate that you want to share it. I guess that growing up hunting without cell phones etc. just wired me differently. Again, not smacking on anyone. Am I the only one on TBH like that?
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11-06-2009, 05:59 PM
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Ten Point
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Cedar Park Texas
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Not alone- I usually call my wife when I hit the gate and then use my phone for an alarm in the morning. Dont pick it up again until I hit the gate headed home. If you want to see me get really mad let a cell phone ring or start talking on the phone when we are wading a flat and the sun is coming up.
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11-06-2009, 06:12 PM
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Pope & Young
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Dallas, TX
Hunt In: Camo
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to each their own.
I enjoy the live hunts and look forward to them.
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11-06-2009, 06:22 PM
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Antlerless
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Madisonville, TX
Hunt In: Uvalde
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Thanks to all of you who take the time to bring us along! 
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11-06-2009, 06:37 PM
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Six Point
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Alto, TX
Hunt In: Houston,Cherokee,Anderson counties
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I put my phone on silent and try not to look at it a whole lot.....But I got a sis and wife that love to text......i have to have my full concentration in the stand....I dont have time to play with a phone
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11-06-2009, 06:38 PM
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Ten Point
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Flower Mound, Tx
Hunt In: North Texas
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Turn off your keyboard clicks and you won't break the solitude and quiet! Win - Win!
 
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11-06-2009, 06:39 PM
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Four Point
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Garland
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i grew up with a paperback book in my hunting bag, with modern phones and better coverage you can now green screen instead, if i want the quiet turn the power off. its really the best of both worlds to me. i get to have my hunt and experience others hunts and thoughts while on stand. imho its the bees knees
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11-06-2009, 06:41 PM
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Quitter
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Arlington, Texas
Hunt In: Mason Co. and Bruce's stand when he aint lookin'!
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As we ALL did,(at least those in the over 20 age group) I grew up hunting without cell phones. But, now I can go hunting and take my friends along with me.
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11-06-2009, 06:44 PM
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Ten Point
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Bernalillo
Hunt In: All over New Mexico
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I actually enjoy the live threads. It does have to be a little boring sitting in a stand waiting for the corn to drop.
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11-06-2009, 06:48 PM
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Banned!!!
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: In the woods
Hunt In: Texas, and the USA
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Me too. I grew up with the only phones being pay phones for a nickle per call and * quarter to call long distance. And our home phone which was a party line shared with 4 other neighbors.
But now I run three different companies as well as my day job and I carry 4 different email accounts with me everywhere I go. Yep I have evolved with the times and I do just fine. I will from time to time bring to the green screne a hunt or two and if you don't want to read it or join in on my hunt don't click on the thread. Not smacking on anyone that don't like to share in real time but I do and I can so I will. |
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11-06-2009, 06:56 PM
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Ten Point
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Flower Mound, Tx
Hunt In: North Texas
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 I wanna see one of those big boars bite the dust!
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11-06-2009, 07:26 PM
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Quitter
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Arlington, Texas
Hunt In: Mason Co. and Bruce's stand when he aint lookin'!
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I can't even begin to tell you how frustrated I am with both the land and the landowner. He and I are gonna duke it out any day now!! Seriously!! On a good note, we went down there today and made some alternative set-ups that look like they're gonna work. There is still 4" of water EVERYWHERE!!! 
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11-06-2009, 09:14 PM
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Pope & Young
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Weatherford.....
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I guess "multitasking" is a problem for you... LOL!! I personally like sharing my hunting moments with others..
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11-06-2009, 09:29 PM
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Pope & Young
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Graham Texas
Hunt In: Young & Shackleford counties
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no your not the only one. I enjoy watching others live hunts, but I just can't make myself worry about that while I am on stand. I put all this work and effort into my setups, scouting, and management and there is no way I would take a chance missing out on my one possible shot opportunity because I was messing around with my phone or computer. Sometimes you only have a few seconds to get a shot off if a deer is moving through.
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11-06-2009, 09:35 PM
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Spike
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Virginia
Hunt In: Northern VA, Texas, West Virginia
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I like the live hunts... breaks the monotony of work
I however use hunting as an excuse to not answer the phone so it stays in the truck! |
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11-06-2009, 09:47 PM
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Nubbin' Buck
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Lat 33.48.35 Lon -98.23.57
Hunt In: Granger/Matador
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I dont disagree with what you're saying. I think a lot of us hunt just to get out there and reconect with things that arent in our control. That said, there's at least a million times that i've sat in my stand and wished i could just share it with someone who would appreciate just being along for the ride. Live hunts are a good outlet for folks who feel this way and i **** sure enjoy feeling like I'm with them on their hunt. Just my two cents!
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11-06-2009, 10:06 PM
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Eight Point
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Waller,Texas
Hunt In: Waller, Texas and Montgomery Co.
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I like it because I can keep a close eye on what my wife is doing in the stand. Shooting, not shooting, seeing anything ect. And when i'm not hunting, the live hunts are great.
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11-06-2009, 10:10 PM
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Ten Point
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Georgetown
Hunt In: Burnet
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I like when others do it so I can read along with their hunts.
Personally I don't do it. I do have my phone on me when I hunt but it's on quiet and stays in my pocket. It's only there for emergencies.
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11-06-2009, 10:15 PM
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Ten Point
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Georgetown, Tx
Hunt In: Coryell County
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11-06-2009, 10:52 PM
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Eight Point
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Lubbock
Hunt In: Scurry County, sofa
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I don't enjoy them while I am hunting...but I love them when I am on the couch!!!!!
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11-06-2009, 11:01 PM
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Four Point
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Fort Worth
Hunt In: North Central TX
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for those of us who have ADD (or in my case ADHD) its a way to break things up without getting up and walking around or anything else that can spook the critters. i enjoy my time outdoors and away from work or other daily stresses having my phone is a way to make it last longer for me. otherwise i would most likely go out and after an hour call it quits cause im bored and restless. it allows me to spend the entire day in the field.
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11-06-2009, 11:11 PM
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Ten Point
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: North of DFW
Hunt In: Archer/Baylor County Line
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I like the live hunts, and i like being able to text when necessary. I try to aim for zen solitude, but it's really helpfull to have the guy on the next stand give you a heads up when something's heading your way!
Plus, as others have mentioned, I have a Wife and 2 Princesses that need to talk to Daddy occasionally!
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11-07-2009, 07:04 AM
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Eight Point
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Giddings
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One of my co-workers left me a voicemail that started with; "I don't know if your cell phone works on the deer stand...".
I had to call him back later that morning to tell him that I don't know if it works there either; I don't take it. I also enjoy the quiet and would miss too much around me if I would be looking at a screen. |
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11-07-2009, 07:07 AM
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Pope & Young
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Big D
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when i'm ready for peace, I turn it off... but I always like updates from the guys so it usually comes back on after a while... I want to be available if I'm needed to track
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11-07-2009, 07:30 AM
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Ten Point
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Laredo, Tx
Hunt In: Anywhere I can
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Cell phone has replaced a paperback book while stand hunting for me. Personally I don't require a lot of concentration to shoot something thats eating corn from my feeder 20 yards away. Now still hunting is a different matter.....but I'm way past still hunting anymore, too old, too fat and too noisy.
Thats the great thing about cell phones or laptops or whatever you take onto your stand, you have a choice to do it or not. |
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11-07-2009, 07:52 AM
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Six Point
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Edna
Hunt In: Jackson co.
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In the bow blind I very rarely touch my phone. But in the gun blind I'll use it when I'm getting restless. But I'm like alot of people and enjoy my solitude. Sometimes I'll cut my phone compleely off for
a day or so just to be left alone.
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11-07-2009, 08:37 AM
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Pope & Young
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Weatherford, TX
Hunt In: Planet Earth
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I think I've got the A.D.D. so I get bored easily. Texting in the stand keeps me entertained and lets me stay in the stand longer. And I enjoy knowing what my hunting pals are seeing or killing.
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11-07-2009, 08:54 AM
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Four Point
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Helotes, Texas
Hunt In: South Texas
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You all know that "multi-tasking" is not possible....our brains switch back and forth between tasks.....do they switch quickly enough to catch everything going around you??? Well, speaking for myself....no way.
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11-07-2009, 08:56 AM
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Eight Point
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Arlington, Tx
Hunt In: Sterling County
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I'm busted. I just read this thread from my ipone in my stand.
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11-07-2009, 09:07 AM
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Four Point
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Midland
Hunt In: Callahan County/Val Verde County
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I'm busted. I just read this thread from my ipone in my stand.
LOL, I guess I am busted too......wish the deer had texting capabilities so they could post their routine for the day. Sure would save lots of trouble. |
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11-07-2009, 09:12 AM
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Eight Point
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Weatherford. Tx.
Hunt In: Haskell Co
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Times are changing, I enjoy reading the live hunt. Next live video.
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11-07-2009, 12:01 PM
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Eight Point
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Houston
Hunt In: Runnels
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I like sharing my experience with others and I like reading about theirs. It also keeps me busy in the stand.
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11-07-2009, 12:23 PM
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Nubbin' Buck
Join Date: Jun 2009
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Keeps me still and quiet.....I've had more deer slip right up.....and never even notice.....plus heps pass the time
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11-07-2009, 01:15 PM
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Ten Point
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Round Rock Texas
Hunt In: San Saba County
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I love the live hunts. I can't post them becuase of cell coverage where I hunt, but I sure appreciate the ones posted.
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11-07-2009, 02:43 PM
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Six Point
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Benicia, Ca.
Hunt In: Texas, Md. Ca.
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Sitting in a box blind over a feeder in Texas I'll use by BB to kill time. In a self climber on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, 20' up in the hardwoods I would not.
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11-07-2009, 03:05 PM
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Four Point
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Conroe, TX
Hunt In: Cass Co, Houston Co
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I have never taken any electronics to the stand, and don't plan to. One of the best things about hunting for me is getting away from all the noise, and people and just enjoying the peace and quiet of being up 20 feet in a tree.
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11-09-2009, 10:32 AM
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Ten Point
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Sugarland
Hunt In: Victoria
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I love it
my iphone also has my bible, a few games and a way to stay connected to my 15 year old at another stand. to each their own lot of judgement under the disguise of "i don't want to smack someone" up here lately! |
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11-09-2009, 10:39 AM
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Ten Point
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Rockwall, Texas
Hunt In: Scurry/Fisher County
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I enjoy the time in the blind with a paperback. I look forward to those times all year long.
I have text before for hunting reports from my buddies on the same ranch, but it got old checking my phone all the time. I really do not even care to read live hunts. I guess I never got a kick out of reading someone else "real-time" hunting experience. To each his own, but it is just not for me.
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11-09-2009, 10:48 AM
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Pope & Young
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: College Station
Hunt In: Where the thieves and poachers roam
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like to txt andfind out what everyone else is seeing
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11-09-2009, 10:57 AM
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Ten Point
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: athens, tx
Hunt In: henderson co, lavaca co, zapata co, starr co, and wherever there is a creature who needs a dirt nap!
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11-09-2009, 11:11 AM
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Four Point
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: BENBROOK TEXAS
Hunt In: RANGER TEXAS
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me god and the great outdoors!!!!!!!!! no phone!!!!!!!!!! its great but thats me to each there own
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11-09-2009, 11:12 AM
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Eight Point
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Spring
Hunt In: Polk County
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Sitting the blind reading this thread right now.
I like the ability to quietly communicate with the others I'm out with to get/give reports.. Also like reading the greenscreen ..and tell my wife what to have on the table when I get home (not that she does..but its nice to be able pretend like she would)... Also like sending pics to the others and my facebook page from my blackberry looking down my scope at the 7point I can't shoot that's been grazing at the feeder for 45minutes....
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11-09-2009, 11:14 AM
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Ten Point
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Arlington
Hunt In: Detroit, TX
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I tried it this weekend and I'll tell you it is really hard to do when the signal is low. The one good thing about cell phones is you can communicate with others and let them know when a big buck is headed there way without making any sound. Texting really works on stand for me.
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11-09-2009, 03:27 PM
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Ten Point
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Houston
Hunt In: Kalamazoo
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I'm in love with live hunts and I would marry them if I could but that isn't legal here in Texas.
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11-09-2009, 04:00 PM
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Pike County Breakfast Horse
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Missouri City
Hunt In: Colorado County TX and Pike County IL
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If I didn't have my phone with me I wouldn't be able to receive inspirational messages from Heath!
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11-09-2009, 04:16 PM
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Ten Point
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Rowlett Tx
Hunt In: Maglights backyard!
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I do not like reading some ones text that I dont know from green screen, but I do enjoy texting with my buddies on the same lease as me. Its nice to know who else is having deer movement.
My Dad and i were hunting public land and he texted me that he was ready to meet at the truck. I told him to hold off that the deer were just starting to move where I was. Sure enough my Dad stayed in the stand and 20 minutes later he killed a big fat doe that came out at 11AM!!! We would have been at camp eating/drinking and you never know that doe could have been a monster instead!!! |
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11-09-2009, 04:17 PM
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Pope & Young
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Wimberley/South Padre Island
Hunt In: Kimble/Mason
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As has been said...to each his own....but....
I hunt to get away from the ratrace...leave that crap at home. Plus my lease is way out there and only Cingular works so we have to have an extra phone/account for CAMP only. I like getting away when I hunt. No phones, no internet....but I do have video for the football games...that's different.
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11-09-2009, 04:19 PM
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Pope & Young
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Wimberley/South Padre Island
Hunt In: Kimble/Mason
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Bows have scopes? 
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11-09-2009, 04:22 PM
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Ten Point
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Paris, AR
Hunt In: AR, TX, Buffalo Co Wis, McHenry Co Ill
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11-09-2009, 04:26 PM
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Ten Point
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Paris, AR
Hunt In: AR, TX, Buffalo Co Wis, McHenry Co Ill
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I really enjoy the live hunts and wish that I sent them also. Problem is that I am for the most part a full "Zen Mode" still hunter. All electronics stay in the truck. I AM IN THE WOODS
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