I know...stupid title.....but when hunting do you have songs that play in your mind?
Seems that the last dang song on the car radio to play as I turn it off gets stuck on an infinite loop in my head when I head out to hunt. So I tend to be very cautious about what I last hear knowing I'll be stuck with it for hours if not days.
If I think about it I can switch to another song for a bit but the damn thing keeps coming back for the most part....and if it is one of my daughter's favs.....like "Firework" or "Fight Song".....it can damn near ruin a nice time in the woods.
I like to try to switch to some ZZ Top of Cars......
Am I nutz? LOLOLOL!
One week and I head into camp. Bear with me and pardon my random thoughts.
Jordanathome I totally understand. When I start an elk hunt I've got Metallica's "Seek and Destroy" pounding in my head. Then if I don't kill something after the hunt I seem to hear Miley Cyrus's "The Climb" on the way home. LOL!
Same here, music I my head all the time! Conversations with myself way more than I want to admit! my wife laughs at me all the time for talking to myself... I just tell her I am the only one that will listen:)
Hilarious, glad I'm not the only one. Usually some terrible old Shania twain song on a loop, in-between random conversations with myself, and asking mother nature to offer me a chance at that big Miley buck I know has gotta be just over the next ridge.
All the time! Ill usually have one or two songs a year that I cant get out of my head while i'm hunting. And its funny because Ill hear a song years later and it will remind me of that year I hunted. Like every time I hear the song "Dragula" it reminds me of driving up to Chillicothe, MO with my dad to hunt.
All the time. Work, exercise, hunting, fishing. Especially when it seems like everything has stopped and time stands still. I have to ask my wife to repeat herself so many times because I am off in my own world talking to myself. I just tell her it’s because I don’t hear well on that side from all the machinery and rifles i’ve Shot through the years. Funny thing is, it always seems to change from side to side!
There is a 85+ lady at church that use to sing for rodeos. Sometimes she will sing for us. Every time I'm packing out I got her and one of the old songs helping me up the hill.
Oh yeah, all the time. Right now my current Ear Worm is Greta Van Fleet's "Talk on the Street". When I hike my pace is whatever cadence of the song playing in my head. And its rock and roll so I generally walk pretty fast.. ;-)
Matt/Destroyer350......I was born and raised in T-town just up the road from Chilli. Go Bulldogs! LOL
Yup...that one step in front of the other song creeps in on me as well......usually when I'm yelling at myself in my head that this hill ain't gonna hike itself!
It's the soundtrack to life. Constantly playing. I have a crazy amount of music. A good chunk rolls around in my biological hard drive and pops into consciousness depending on external inputs like the cadence of footfalls, woodpeckers, grouse drumming, casual thoughts, etc.
Rock, Blues, Jazz, Classical. It just plays in accompaniment perpetually.
Ted Nugent hunt songs to psych myself up when it's hunt time. Other times it's Uriah Heep,Muddy Waters,Pink Anderson,Pink Floyd,GFR, or something else. For some odd reason it's usually a song I can play that runs in my mind's radio.
On my first elk hunt in 1987,after 10 days I was getting down.This flatlander was wore out.The 11 day I am trudging up red mountain one last time.I here a bugle,I set up I get this song in my head, All I need is a Miracle, I think by Mike and the Mechanics.It worked and to this day when I am running out of time its in my head.
Willieboat, a few weeks ago I had Motorhead's "Chase is better than the catch" banging around in there. MTVLive has been airing one of the last concerts before Lemmy died, and I recorded it. Maybe a mistake because I've watched it like 10 times......
I play Joe Bonamassa Mountain Time as I head across western NE on I-80 but generally in the woods, I hear the woods at least I try. Working in Lee's Summit, hunting Brookfield (Matt and Jordon)
I run through a medley of songs every night in my treestand to help pass the time. Past few years it’s a combo of Triumph and Zac Brown Band. I love when my “concert” gets interrupted!
A looooonnnnggg time ago, I worked for the USPS as a letter carrier.
Every once in awhile while we we casing the mail in the mornings, someone would start singing.... “In the jungle... the mighty jungle... the lion sleeps tonight.....”
For carriers that had a walking route, you could just hear them groan :)
You're not alone. The worst case I recall was a pre-dawn last tune of "candle in the wind" by Elton John about Marilyn Monroe just I packed in for an all day sit in Mississippi swamp. Torture. This was before I discovered Pandora.
I never get music in my head but almost every time I sit down to listen, I hear what sounds like footsteps in the grass. I look around and nothing is there but I keep on hearing something walking up on me. Maybe it is just the blood rushing through my clogged up arteries.
Then again I never listen to music on the way out hunting, I am warming up my reed and practicing calling.
I was packing out a bull my hunting buddy shot and I kept hearing a "Dire Straights" tune that I modified. "I want my....I want my.....I want my ATV" The loads were bone in hind quarters from a Wyoming 6X5, and the trail though short, was kind of steep. Fortunately, he had included his son on this trip who came along for assistance and to spend time with his dad. I only had make one load as the pair knocked out the remaining loads in the AM. Good times for sure! LaGriz
Sometimes find myself humming the Door's Roadhouse blues.....however I'm singing,Woke up this morning and I shot myself a deer! Should be Bowsite's official song,lol
Midwest> I am a huge Heep fan since their first album. Taught myself,by ear, to play Gypsy. Taught myself how to fingerpick by playing The Wizard. Learned Sunrise,Easy Livin',Circle of Hands,and Rain on piano and organ. Even bought a synthesizer just to play Sweet Lorraine.
When my kids were real young, I would get those darn Disney and Cartoon theme songs stuck in my head. It was brutal. LOL. Glad to know I was/am not crazy!
I mentioned earlier that I play pipes & roll tunes through my mind...but in addition to that I do love the Dropkick Murpys. Their music will get you going in the morning, boy-o! Lol.
one year it was tim McGraw's "live like you were dying" I heard it a thousand times on the way to Kansas n back. But then again elk hunting is living like you're dying. Bring it on 16 hrs of country radio
A couple years ago while at spike camp, I blew out the crotch of my pants. I instantly thought I need to stitch that up. Rewind 2 weeks and my young nieces were visiting. They kept singing that Shawn Mendez song Stitches. When my pants ripped, that song instantly embedded itself and stayed for 3 days straight!
Sounds like tinnitus, or an ear worm.. actually something that isn't unheard of with folks who have Lyme's. Can be triggered by high or low frequency noises (AC system, leaking air hose) or a train. Mostly annoying but doesn't mean you have a really big health issue unless its relentless.
Some folks also make reference to the Thunder drums which are just your ear drum vibrating due to your pulsing heart. Can be heard when in a quiet area and excited (like when game comes into view)....I like to hear my thunder drums every fall.
Not in the elk woods but I've been singing 'easy Livin' for 3 days now and I haven't even heard it. Thanks Midwest! I get some that will roll around in there for weeks.
Re: The two posts about hearing footsteps in the grass and Thunder Drums. Sometimes when I'm real tired and lay down for a nap I hear faint noises like footsteps or bugles, more so when I'm really tired after a few days. No idea if it's real or in my head.
About three years ago I was watching some woods on a sage brush knoll all morning. At 11:00 I laid back because I couldn't stay awake any longer. After a minute or two I heard faint hooves - da da dump, da da dump. Sat up, told myself I was hearing things. Laid back down - it got louder, and louder.......I finally knew it was real so I rolled over, grabbed my rifle and got up on one knee. A 5x5 bull skidded to a stop 10 yards away, he would have run right over me if I hadn't moved. I'm not sure who soiled their shorts first. No, I didn't get him....
I've also come home from elk hunts and still heard faint bugles the first night falling asleep in my bed.
