Midnight, the best part of the day...?

[IdahoSharpshooter]

half an hour to midnight here.

Mamma is sacked out, we live in a quiet neighborhood, and there are no cars. We are about about half a mile from railroad tracks, and there are a couple fast freights heading West about now. There's something about that off in the distance lonesome whistle announcing its passage. That odd shuffling driver sound.

It is a good day coming, to be alive.

You all have a good day...

Rich

 

[Zero333]

I live at night most of the time.

Last 15 years been doing continental shift, 2 weeks days 2 weeks nights.
My body and mind prefer night time.

Neighborhood is at the edge of the City (380k population), never hear any cars and there are no street lamps. Very dark and quiet.

 

[Iowa Fox]

I thought I was the only one that enjoyed the middle of the night. A great time to reflect on the day gone and the one coming.

 

[370bc]

Im a 4am man myself. Very quite in this small, rural town. Upcoming job might require some 12 hour midnight sifts, which I will fight to avoid. Worked them in the past, and it's too much of a drain on my system.
I guess the silence is one of the things i like about coyote hunting alone, early in the am, right before dawn. I have a jet flight path overhead that seems to run 8am - 10pm. When they are down, it is very still.
My first realization of silence was Elk hunting Montana in the early 90's. I could go all day sometimes w/o hearing a bird, a plane, a truck, etc. It had a big effect on me after that. It changed my religious views and my idea of what the best recreation should be.
I will be trying to take a class on meditation in the future. I hear a lot about the positives it can bring by slowing the mind down.

 

[Intheshop]

4-5 a.m.

Having my boys home hunting,usually with their trad bows.....frying bacon,making coffee,fixin breakfast.I like being the first up,getting it all started.

 

[dolek]

3:00a.m. guy here,have been for years .I love the early morning,like this morning...coffee and prepping brass . When the sun comes up I will be shooting the CZ rimfire...from my gun room window. Freezing rain here,but I set the targets out yesterday before the sheet of ice took over.

 

[jds holler]

My eyes snap open at 4 AM. Still a working stiff. Got to load my truck with a house full of dry-wall this morning and stock the house.

A few minutes with coffee and you guys is always welcome. jd

 

[nmkid]

I normally go to bed around 1-2AM. The house is quiet and I can reflect on what I did, (or didn't do) and read one of my Civil War books.

 

[mikegaiz]

Yes, I am a 4:30 AM guy...

I wake up at 4:30 AM to go to the bathroom and then back to bed.

 

[FFEMT]

I have a tendency to stay up reading the threads you guys post so late at night that I don’t usually go to bed until about 4:00 or 4:30, but I’m up and awake by the crack of noon almost every day.....

 

[nonnieselman]

I feel like i get more work done at night. Then there are those times when i work with my brother after i get off work at my day job. Wake up at 6:45AM go to work, Get off at 4PM, Go to work with my brother from 4:30PM to 5AM, Get cleaned up and about an hour or 2 nap, Get back up at 6:45AM and do it all over again.
The time from about 10PM to 5AM is the most peaceful, then the drive home with almost no traffic on the road.

Do that for a week and spend all saturday catching up on sleep and start it all over the next week.

Then when im lucky i can go hunting and hopefully its really cold. Sitting on the stand watching the sun come up is my favorite part.

 

[Geno C]

I run 2 schedules throughout the year and enjoy the quiet either early in the winter or late in the summer.

Usually getting up about 3-4am in the winter.

Usually going to bed about 3-4am in the summer.

The reflection before work in the winter and after work in the summer is always a time I look forward to.

 

[allen529]

I am retired and I still wake up like clock work between 3:30 and 4 everyday 7 days a week.

You guys talking about hunting alone or in distant places brings back a lot of memories. I have for years because of schedules been a solitary hunter either of animals or men. Sometimes one and the same. There are no more Hemingway's to romanticize it anymore.

Watching life wakeup in the morning... just has that special appeal.

 

[KMart]

Since I retired, I sleep like a chicken. If I am still, I'll go to sleep about an hour after dark. Coffee is making by 0400 all year long.

 

[acloco]

Your experiences, EACH of them, so eloquently described by words, is something that can only be experienced in person.

I, same as most of you, could not wait to run from the nest. Now, all I dream about, to experience the sight of the Northern Lights dancing across the late fall/winter season in north central Montana.

This fills the mind. The beautiful air fills the lungs as well. ALL of this.......cleanses the mind.

 

[jonbearman]

Hunting animals or men? What does that mean?

 

[DOGCAPPER]

I live 7 miles from the nearest street light.
2 miles from I75.
3 miles from I 10.
5 miles from the railroad.
The man that built my house built it tight as a cave.
I don't hear anything unless I go outside and listen hard. Partly deaf helps(I don't hear anything I don't want to).
I'm 82 today.
My Nana Newland is looking down still saying "That boy ain't never gonna live to 21".
God bless all my gone on relatives.
I'm finishing my 4 am coffee and looking for the paper--Cross Word Puzzle.
Happy Wed. all.
LT

 

[allen529]

Hunting animals or men? What does that mean?

Hemingway said and I am paraphrasing it...

"The man who hunts armed men long enough care to hunt only armed men"

I hunted four legged animals until I was old enough to hunt 2 legged animals. I spent 22 years directly hunting both armed and unarmed criminals and enjoyed it. During that time I exceedingly rarely hunted 4 legged animals but would take a coyote or two now and then.

Allen

 

[joshb]

I used to be a night owl. Sneak out when I was a kid and walk the country side. Stay out bar hopping and chasing skirts when I was a young man. These days, I like to get to bed early so I can dream and get up early.
I like to dream about my next new car



My next new wife

Oh, wait!! That was a nightmare I had!!!
Dream about my next new wife

My next new gun


After a good night's sleep, I get up early and chase those dreams! Well,,,some of them.

 

[Intheshop]

Josh,when the "new" GT first showed up,I was mildly interested?So we were in the local stealership and they have ONE,sitting there.I knew what they were supposed to be so,offered to write a check for 5k$ over that figure(little N of a buck fiddy).The salesman literally started laughing.Was back in there a month or so later,he told me they got 200 for it,and put it in a shipping container for a guy in Germany.Dig around Holman Moody down in Charlotte NC.They have a stash of original chassis'.Interesting reading.