Hunting through the years

[Omega]

Back when I started hunting, I'd be up in my stand with icicles formed on my mustache and having lost all feeling in my fingers and toes thinking it don't get any better than this.
Now, it's 20 deg outside but my stand thermometer reads almost 60deg, and I'm wishing the deer wait until it reaches at least 32deg before they make an appearance, while thinking, maybe I can improve this stand with double pane windows.
Not to mention that I'm posting this while I sip hot coffee while perusing a site full of fellow hunters posting pics of their deer. Nope, that young man had no idea of how much better it could get.

 

[DoubleRidge]

Nothing wrong with being comfortable and enjoying a long sit on a cold day. We have two shooting houses on the property and hope to add two more in the future.....the Buddy heater is a nice addition on those cold and windy days...good luck hunting!

 

[Wolverine72]

If you ever feel the need to reminisc ill trade you stands for a day or two. I'd be wiling trade you my ladder for your box. Lol.
I'm just here to help a guy out

 

[backyardtndeer]

Glad my hunt was cut short this morning. Had my boot blankets on and was ok. Wind started picking up about the time I was recovering my deer.

 

[hoghunter65]

When I first started hunting deer, we had 80 acres that joined some bowater property, we called it the ponderosa, we nailed wooden pallets between trees for stands, on cold mornings the wind coming through the slats was almost unbearable but if you didn't hunt it felt like you were missing out on something, now I hunt when I feel like it, if I don't feel like it I pull the covers up over my head and go back to sleep, it took me a few years to learn but hunting is supposed to be fun, not miserable.

 

[Cheshire]

Back when I started hunting, I'd be up in my stand with icicles formed on my mustache and having lost all feeling in my fingers and toes thinking it don't get any better than this.
Now, it's 20 deg outside but my stand thermometer reads almost 60deg, and I'm wishing the deer wait until it reaches at least 32deg before they make an appearance, while thinking, maybe I can improve this stand with double pane windows.
Not to mention that I'm posting this while I sip hot coffee while perusing a site full of fellow hunters posting pics of their deer. Nope, that young man had no idea of how much better it could get.

I finally broke down and bought a small propane heater. Should have done it years ago.

 

[Jcalder]

I don't rough it like I used to.

 

[Carlos]

I can remember many times when the soles of my boots would start to freeze and stick to the bottom of the climbing stand.
I wonder if anyone's ever tried building a bracket for a really small heater, that fits on the bottom of a climbing stand?
I love hunting from a stand more than anything. When it's 20 degrees the wind can make it uncomfortable.