Night hunting and sleep - what is your system?

I'm an all nighter guy so I sleep when I get home then get up in the early afternoon and run that cycle while the moon is dark, the only time o run partial nights is on brite moons once it comes up.
 
I'm 54... I've always pushed myself physically and mentally my whole life.. at home, work, and play
This is sorta of the track a bit but it gives an insight of how much I enjoy coyote hunting....and in reality no where even close to my competitive addiction I had mountain bike racing.
I've had some health issues when I turned 48 that slowed me down a little and looking back I was pretty nuts- had an inner ear infection that basically destroyed my hearing in my right ear(sounds like a cicada constantly now) and 2 ear drum reconstruction surgeries in which my ear was but literally cut from my head ...but that wasn't the bad part. As a result I now have severe BPPV that lasts from 1 day to 4 months. While diagnosing the ear...I also discovered a cyst in my sinus maximus and had 2 surgeries for that( I'd rather pass anothe 40 kidney stones then go through sinus surgery again)....and I didn't miss a beat coyote hunting and was out hunting against my wife's and hunting partners discretion. I don't do pain meds...so if I couldn't sleep due to the pain- I hunted.
The severe vertigo is a bit different- and anyone whos had it- you ain't going anywhere but down to the ground.
.....don't want any of my tactics.
I'll go 36+ straight hours....work to hunting and back to work.
I do it probably 12+ times a season. I don't keep track- but my body eventually does.....and when that happens, I'm out. But I try to time that so when I wake up it's dark and I go right back out hunting.
Sometimes I nap...sometimes I don't before I go. I'll hunt from dark to dusk for days in a row, get a little sleep and keep going. I'm good with anywhere from 4-6 hours of sleep. Ya.... not exactly the healthiest, but I do get some good stretches of nice sleep when the weather is crap.
 
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limbhanger10 said:
I'm 54... I've always pushed myself physically and mentally my whole life.. at home, work, and play
This is sorta of the track a bit but it gives an insight of how much I enjoy coyote hunting....and in reality now where close to my competitive addiction I had mountain bike racing.
I've had some health issues when I turned 48 that slowed me down a little and looking back I was pretty nuts- had an inner ear infection that basically destroyed my hearing in my right ear(sounds like a cicada constantly now) and 2 ear drum reconstruction surgeries in which my ear was but literally cut from my head ...but that wasn't the bad part. As a result I now have severe BPPV that lasts from 1 day to 4 months. While diagnosing the ear...I also discovered a cyst in my sinus maximus and had 2 surgeries for that( I'd rather pass anothe 40 kidney stones then go through sinus surgery again)....and I didn't miss a beat coyote hunting and was out hunting against my wife's and hunting partners discretion. I don't do pain meds...so if I couldn't sleep due to the pain- I hunted.
The severe vertigo is a bit different- and anyone whos had it- you ain't going anywhere but down to the ground.
.....don't want any of my tactics.
I'll go 36+ straight hours....work to hunting and back to work.
I do it probably 12+ times a season. I don't keep track- but my body eventually does.....and when that happens, I'm out. But I try to time that so when I wake up it's dark and I go right back out hunting.
Sometimes I nap...sometimes I don't before I go. I'll hunt from dark to dusk for days in a row, get a little sleep and keep going. I'm good with anywhere from 4-6 hours of sleep. Ya.... not exactly the healthiest, but I do get some good stretches of nice sleep when the weather is crap.
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Damn, man! I've lived with insomnia my entire adult life, but your story is crazy! Kudos for grinding on brother!
 
With a 6 month season in NY, we have six months of off season to catch up on sleep, so I hunt at every opportunity.
If I could hunt all year long things would be different.
Sometimes I've come home from coyote hunting, changed into my deer hunting dud's and went right out to my deer stand.
I have a full time job, so from Mon- Thursday I get five hours of sleep a night, but Friday to Monday Am, I get maybe three hours a night and a 1 Hr nap before heading out.
I know I've pushed it to far when I hear the tires hitting the rumble strip on the way home.
SJC
 
You can tell that some of you have never worked night shift. LoL

If I had that drive and hunted a lot I would probably buy a camper shell for my truck. I'd hunt from dark to whenever I got tired. Jump the in the back of the truck and take a nap then head on home.

If I was going to be hunting multiple nights in a row I'd probably look into finding me a cheap, but clean hotel.
 
hunt0168 said:
Damn, man! I've lived with insomnia my entire adult life, but your story is crazy! Kudos for grinding on brother!
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Have you ever tried Ambien?

My ex was diagnosed with insomnia and was on it for years. That drug is crazy, I don't even see how it's legal. She would wake up the next day not knowing what happened in the last 24 hours. Done all kinds of crazy things when she would wake up and the time that the medicine just started to take effect after she took it.
 
DoubleLungRage said:
Have you ever tried Ambien?

My ex was diagnosed with insomnia and was on it for years. That drug is crazy, I don't even see how it's legal. She would wake up the next day not knowing what happened in the last 24 hours. Done all kinds of crazy things when she would wake up and the time that the medicine just started to take effect after she took it.
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No. Sounds like I am better off just dealing with insomnia! I do enough crazy things already buddy! šŸ¤Ŗ Just ask my wife! :ROFLMAO:
 
Don't get me wrong, I'm no superman, some of my health issues really affected my sleep and coyote hunting....and are by no means near the severity of the health issues I know( or don't know) others have. I didn't fall into the alternate abyss. I know people that have...we all know people that have.
It's just how I deal with sleep or sleeplessness and coyote hunting.
 
limbhanger10 said:
Don't get me wrong, I'm no superman, some of my health issues really affected my sleep and coyote hunting....and are by no means near the severity of the health issues I know( or don't know) others have. I didn't fall into the alternate abyss. I know people that have...we all know people that have.
It's just how I deal with sleep or sleeplessness and coyote hunting.
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You should move to a state where you can hunt them year round. That way you won't have to cram so much into such a short period of time.
 
You guys go hard. I kind of wish I had that drive. I'll be out after work till 2 am and feel like absolute crap the next day. It will take me a few days to recover and then I will go again. I don't have that many spots to hunt so I will give it some time before I go back.
 
I call with a friend. We usually call till 3 am or so. Then we get 2-3 hours sleep in the truck. Then call all day and the following night. However, the second night, Iā€™m done around midnight. I need some sleep.
 
limbhanger10 said:
I'm 54... I've always pushed myself physically and mentally my whole life.. at home, work, and play
This is sorta of the track a bit but it gives an insight of how much I enjoy coyote hunting....and in reality no where even close to my competitive addiction I had mountain bike racing.
I've had some health issues when I turned 48 that slowed me down a little and looking back I was pretty nuts- had an inner ear infection that basically destroyed my hearing in my right ear(sounds like a cicada constantly now) and 2 ear drum reconstruction surgeries in which my ear was but literally cut from my head ...but that wasn't the bad part. As a result I now have severe BPPV that lasts from 1 day to 4 months. While diagnosing the ear...I also discovered a cyst in my sinus maximus and had 2 surgeries for that( I'd rather pass anothe 40 kidney stones then go through sinus surgery again)....and I didn't miss a beat coyote hunting and was out hunting against my wife's and hunting partners discretion. I don't do pain meds...so if I couldn't sleep due to the pain- I hunted.
The severe vertigo is a bit different- and anyone whos had it- you ain't going anywhere but down to the ground.
.....don't want any of my tactics.
I'll go 36+ straight hours....work to hunting and back to work.
I do it probably 12+ times a season. I don't keep track- but my body eventually does.....and when that happens, I'm out. But I try to time that so when I wake up it's dark and I go right back out hunting.
Sometimes I nap...sometimes I don't before I go. I'll hunt from dark to dusk for days in a row, get a little sleep and keep going. I'm good with anywhere from 4-6 hours of sleep. Ya.... not exactly the healthiest, but I do get some good stretches of nice sleep when the weather is crap.
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Sounds like me in my 30's, NOT 50's, when chasing gobblers in MD, WVA, then here in PA by trading for 3p to 2a shift, driving then sleeping in the truck bed, hunt, drive home, nap, work, repeat. I would lose between 12-18# in those 6wks each year.
KUDOS to you Ron for doing that in your 50's for an extended time frame.
 
Dang!... Lost a bunch of sleep when it came to spring gobbler too lol
Especially when I'd go roost the night before- sometimes those gobblers wouldn't sound off till after 2130...wouldn't get back to truck till after 2200 and be asleep by midnight and up at 0230 to be in position by 0430.
Back in the 90s I gobbler hunted MD(April 18th) for a couple days depending when opening day was...then go to WV(last full week Monday in April) ...then home in PA(last Saturday in April)....then NY(May 1st). I would go back to work in between states.
If weather was crappy, I'd postpone an opening day and just move day off to a Fri.
My best friend lived in WV then moved to MD so I had a great place to stay when I hunted down there.
The only place I saw coyotes was NY and some in PA.
 
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