Do you eat while in your stand?

[MissouriBoy]

Growing up, my best friends dad bragged how he always filled his freezer every year, even while smoking from his tree stand. I don’t smoke, but I’ve sat in the stand long enough to develop a rumbling stomach. So my question is this, do you eat while in the stand? If so, what do you eat? I honestly have never brought food to the stand with me, just wondering what some people do bring in and if the smells have ever disturbed a hunt.

 

[Nicodemus]

An orange or two, maybe some jerky. I don`t worry about smells. If a deer smells that, it is smelling you too.

 

[doenightmare]

I'll bring a sammich or banana. Like Nic said - if they smell your sammich they smell you too.

 

[baddave]

just every time i go hunting - get out of my way around 9:00 i'm eating.. most of the time my wife will fix me a sammich. or i'll take peanuts or sumpin..i definitely am not worried about the smell.. it's MY smell i worry more about and i think i got a grip on that,.i've made a few adjustments this year and ,to my knowledge , i didn't get bursted at all this year.I drug out 6 and seen many, many more.

 

[HabershamHunter85]

A couple of nature valley bars and two orange Gatorade's every sit.

 

[Buckman18]

If im at the deer lease im seldom gone long enough for it to matter, but I may take some water if its warm.

When I'm hunting up home in the mountains I always pack food because if im an hour or 2 from the truck im gonna get hungry. Im not too picky, leftovers from night before, pb&j, there are some pretty good soups now, jerky, banana or oranges, life straw. Couple of beers if it real cold and im there all day, etc...

 

[Jim Thompson]

Who me???? Me eat on stand????

And yeah I slip up and kill one now and again too.

 

[Swamprat]

Pack of crackers or a granola bar or two and a bottle of water or a small Gatorade during deer season.

During turkey season when I am moving more a couple of pears or apples, maybe a tangerine or two....all kinda fill the stomach and give you some moisture.

 

[BASS1FUN]

Yep, crackers,oranges breakfast bars,nothing heavy I don’t like doing #2 out there

 

[drewskyc]

I'll smoke my pipe if I am downwind and chew tobacco if hunting without my kids. But like the others I will usually eat like a granola bar or something similar. I have figured out the one thing that holds off the hunger the most for me is these things called Jif Power Ups. Hold me for a long time out in the woods.

 

[Swamprat]

Jim...wondering when I would see a stand pic of you without shoes. Harder to do where you hunt now but when you were hunting regular in GA it was a common theme.

 

[drewskyc]

Jim Thompson that's a feast man!

 

[Jim Thompson]

Jim...wondering when I would see a stand pic of you without shoes. Harder to do where you hunt now but when you were hunting regular in GA it was a common theme.

Ha the tootsies still make a regular appearance every year, although you are right when its brutally cold they cant air out for as long

 

[Jim Thompson]

Jim Thompson that's a feast man!

Fellas gotta eat good lol

 

[IIICrkRepr]

Trail bologna, cheese and chocolate, some soup in a thermos if its really cold.

 

[NCHillbilly]

Not on a normal morning or evening sit, but during our 3-week rifle season here in the mountains I often go a good ways in on the national forest and sit all day. I'll usually take a bottle of water and some peanut butter crackers, jerky, apple, nuts, or something with me then and eat it around midday.

 

[MissouriBoy]

Jif Power Ups.

These things are great. Been taking them fishing with the kids and while hiking. They love them and it does hold off the perpetual kid hunger. I’ve grown to enjoy them as well!

 

[4HAND]

Ain't nothing better than a PB&J in the stand. Alway have water & normally have a little something to eat.

 

[Sixes]

Rarely, but I have stopped by the local Chick Fil A and grabbed a couple of chicken and cheese biscuits for the morning hunt

 

[bowhunterdavid]

Payday,Nutty Bar, Honey Bun,-- Winter Green grizzle, but i don't eat that.