Drill Sergeant

[stevejedlenski]

at home during deer season i feel like i am a drill sergeant. im the first one up, start making breakfast, and have to try so hard to get everyone else out of bed and into the woods on time. i think sometimes that if i didnt do this they would sleep till 9. i feel like im yelling at them to get dressed and i have to wash their clothes and basicly dress them or they wont be out there before light.

i want to know if there are other people like me out there.

what are you, Drill sergeant, or pull me out of bed and get me going type of person??

[Cody Gruchow]

nope im the type of person who wakes up on my own before the alarm goes off. and its everyones responsibility to get up on there own or they can sleep and miss deer opener. that wouldnt be my problem

[Grute Man]

Im up early with no problem unless I did this the night before --->

There's no sleeping once someone in our cabin gets up.  When we're all together, then the patriarch of our camp starts making breakfast     Ummmm --- bacon -- pancakes -- OK whatever you say -- Im coming. 

[Spinach]

I'm always up first and raring to go. Friday night I wont be able to sleep and then I'll be so tired after sitting in my stand all day, I'll be in bed by 11pm every night after that.

I also get 4 weeks of hunting in my zone.

[beeker]

I'm not sure what type of drill sgt you had, but I never had one dress me.

[bowhunter73]

I think I should be hunting with some of you. Because I am getting tired of trying to get some of the people going that I hunt with   

[mnsportsman49]

I think I should be hunting with some of you. Because I am getting tired of trying to get some of the people going that I hunt with   

do i smell a mno hunt coming together

[Outdoors Junkie]

My dad and I get up before everyone else.  We start the coffee and the pancakes.  We turn the radio on and most everyone else starts crawling out of bed.  If we have to, we will go and yell "time to get up" for the slackers.  If  I have to come yell again, then you better watch out.  I start pulling some pranks on the lazy folks.

One example of a prank...my cousins was snoring away, and I had yelled for him a couple times.  I took a small rag, tied a string to it, then took a tack and pushed it into the ceiling (with the sting hanging down and rag attached at the end).  Then I opened up my doe in heat bottle gave a little squirt onto the rag, and left it hanging two inches from my cousins nose.  He was taking some deep breaths (while snoring very loud).  I walked away giggling and it wasn't two minutes later he came running out of his bunk almost ready to puke.    We all were laughing pretty hard at him. 

I don't think I have ever had to yell for him more then once again.   

[22lex]

I'm always up way before I need to be to hunt, and always that dummy who sits in the woods in the dark for an hour listening to all the critters while my blood pressure goes up exponetially.

[HD]

I'm always up before everybody, get the coffee going and kick the kids out of bed.

[stevejedlenski]

I'm not sure what type of drill sgt you had, but I never had one dress me.

I dont actually dress them, but i do grab their clothes and trow them at them. and then someones always missing somthing so i go and find it.
 the only reason i do it is so we have a higher sucess rate, and its my family. friends i could care less about

[deadeye]

I am sort of the director.  Because we usually stay at my parents house, we have about a half hour drive to hunting camp.  I'm usually sitting in the truck, coffee cup in hand, waiting for the last guy to get in so we can take off.  GRRRR.

[beeker]

every camp has that guy that gets up early.. the guy that comes in a little late (where you start thinking he's lost) that guy that forgets stuff at home and is always a soup sandwhich, the guy that never brings food or beer. it's just part of the scheme of things and makes camp fun...

[BIG 6 BUCK]

Why is it that the guy that forgets the food and beer, eats the most and says " Hay YOU need to run and get more beer cuz WE are out"

[JCAMERON]

Yeah I've met that guy. He's a joke. Grandpa is always first to rise and start beating everyone awake with his cane. I could definitely sleep longer but I'm always in the tree 30 min before light. Only one guy at our camp drinks alcohol so a twelve pack usually lasts the whole season.

[schwinger]

I fall in both categories.

For deer hunting I am not difficult to get out of bed but I am cetainly not the first guy up. This is mostly due to the fact that I hunt with my dad and his group and they are all older and have been the "Drill Sergeants" for many years and I enjoy sleep more than most.

When I go out hunting with my buddies, most of whom I introduced to hunting, I make sure I am up early to get everyone going because they would sleep in.

[Go Big Red!]

I lie awake all night and am the first one up, the first one out (I, too, sit out in the dark an hour prior to legal time), the first one with a deer, and the last one in at night.  And the first one to bed for Day 2 since the other guys don't do well.

[GirlGuide]

For the last 30 years or so, my dad was always the drill sargeant at our camp.  He would always start making a huge breakfast about 3:30 in the morning.  He would still be partying from the night before (he never went out in the mornings to hunt).  He was always the life of the party, ...and never quite knew when the party was over!  Anyway, he would always be the one to wake everyone up, sometimes even an hour or two early!  And when one of my brothers would tell him what a pain in the ass he was...he would just laugh and laugh this big belly laugh and keep egging them on.  This would get everybody else laughing hysterically in their own beds.

My dad quit hunting a few years ago, now I am the one that wakes everyone up.  There is about 15 of us that hunt, I have 4 brothers, my nephews, a cousin..etc)  I get up, go right to the cupboard, grab a couple pots and pans...and I'm on my way.  First I wake up my brother whose camper is closest to ours, and I bang away until I get a reaction, then when I think my job is done, I walk out and leave the door wide open when I leave so he freezes his butt off or has to get up to close it, (his bed is right next to the door).  Then I'm off to the cabin, which is only a few feet away from his camper and I bang away next to each guys bed, until they can't take it anymore.  Then my job is pretty much done....unless I see my brother has gotten up and has shut his door, then I have to make sure he regrets doing that!

...Trust me, there is no other way to get them up!  No other way that is near as FUN anyway!


Yes, I'm a pain in the ass.  It's good to follow a tradition though, isn't it?  My dad would be SO proud!! 

~gg

 

[Stensethfan]

I pretty much will not sleep tonight so I need no egging on to get out of bed!!  I will be in the woods waiting well before the sun tries to pop up.  I like this weekend better than my birthday or x-mas!