:p Texting while hunting? I do text sometimes when I'm hunting. But how in the world do you carry on a conversation or text to multiple people while you are hunting? I'll text to see what stand a buddy of mine is in so I know where to go. Or text to tell someone I'm getting down and leaving just so they know. Or obviously if one of us happens to kill something. That's about the extent of it though. I have a couple of buddies that bombard my phone with texts telling me about every freakin squirrel that they see. I could give a flying crap! Tell me after. I literally have to tell one of my friends to shut up. Never thought I'd have to tell someone texting to shutup :p:D. I just dont' get it. Risk the chance of a big buck catching a glimpse of your fingers going nuts on your phone so you can talk to somebody while you are trying to hunt? Or the chance that the big buck slithered by you 60 yards away while you were staring at your phone when you should have been trying to grunt him back in? I Don't get it.
Me too. I had to text one of my friends this past Saturday, " I'm hunting, shut up! Txt me when its on the ground!"
When hunting the same woodlot my buddies and I will text each other about what we are seeing so the other knows what is around and could be heading his way. Other than that we don't text too much. I do love getting these texts though : "dioink;rt nmoivbew. xczoiomimngt nuy qwary." I've learned to decode that as "Don't move. Coming my way." In case I had any thoughts of getting down my buddy will type that one handed in his pocket to keep me from messing him up.:D
im guilty of this..but its for good cause...most of the time is communication, checking the time...or what not..but i do here and there..im not gonna lie..:D
I'm a texter. But not at peak movement times. Last hr of the day phone stays in my pocket & most days even the vibrate gets turned off. Otherwise I find it nice to pass the time on boring sits.
I'll text right after I get in the stand in the afternoon but after an 1hr into the sit I don't do it anymore.
Haha! I like to get texts from friends that are out hunting when I can't be. That seems to be quite often this year. I will also send or receive the occasional text when I am hunting near a friend. The usual "I just saw..." or "Cing anything?" (That was for you GMMAT)
I hate texting. I only text when I'm texted to. Then I usually text back, "I'm hunting", and that usually takes care of it.
LOL---I received a text the othe day in the woods that said, "BRETT, good god, your son called 911"....hahahaha! By the way he is 5 years old.
what game law would that be? in what state? not like texting and driving. in my state electronic calls means (deer calls) but local bass pro still sells them. as for fair chase i guess they can bring the records into court with them, i dont know any agent that would try and enforce that one unless it was dark out. i feel cell phones and or texting will save countless lives for a hurt hunter,someone that is lost or in general needs help. i think it is a good idea once your on stand to text someone where you are at for safety reasons i for one have not returned home from a hunt but that was before cell phones and i was stupid for hunting alone, to this day i dont know where i am going to hunt until i get to my place and see how the wind is blowing i may move to a different farm altogether while driving as i watch the flag poles on the way to hunt. once on stand i feel you owe it to your family to send a i am here text.
I dont' know about on stand, but I usually text when i'm back in my truck which goes something like this.... "I'm alive........ no dead deer".
Plus I get my marching orders from the wife on where I need to be, what I need to do after the hunt. To be honest the communication tools we have today allow me more time in the stand. Without thses tools, for me it would be tought to hunt some nights. When I was single I did not have a care in the world, plus Rob and I keep tabs on each other and what we are seeing, helps pass the time.
A lot of the places i hunt don't even have service to text. But when I do I'll text my dad and brother to see if they have seen anything or respond to what they have seen. Like others have said let them know if I have gotten something or when I'm getting down. But it's not often that we are all three hunting together, so I would say I probably average about 3-5 texts a hunt.
Same here. I've also been known to text Mike while we are in the same tree. :D I also surf the web when I'm bored.
Just looked throug our hunting regulations booklet --I didnt see anything there about it. I m not saying it wasnt there -I just didnt see it. I carry a cell phone in the woods for mainly two reasons---------safety and work . On a few occasions when bored I have text or receved a text from another asking what was being seen or someone getting a deer. Most times I find texting a hassle or distraction while hunting.
sort of me too. i do it there because most falls happen on the way out,and it lets them know where to look for me. only got this way after a 20 foot tree stand fall ,safety belt failed at the same time and hangs in the same tree today still, i woke up on the ground some three hours later and had to walk a mile up a ridge and drive myself to a emergency room. i was in shock,torn rotator cup ,broken ribs and a broken big toe below the ball socket ad a year of in and out of the hospital and rehab and two missed years of bow hunting all i can say is take a friend hunting and a cell phone.
I text some with friends while I hunt. We are usually hunting 20+ miles apart, so the "big one coming your way" is a running joke between us lol. Several places I hunt has limited or no cell signal, the phone stays in the truck then.
Not sure about other states but in Wisconsin it is illegal to use an electronic device to contact someone to come tag a deer for you (group hunting is legal in wisconsin). Otherwise, texting, portable radio's etc, is legal to inform other hunters of deer movement.
