Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Hey fellas…ever sleep on a cowboy bed roll?

Yep, many nights when I was a young buck. Then went to my mom's house in Idaho to sell the house in October. Friggin consolidators sold my bed after two days and I had to stay there for ten days. My buddy loaned me his, wasn't bad after a day or two.

There's reasons men died young back then...🤣

I slept in game bags in Alaska in 2011 while moose hunting after my sleeping bag turned up missing. Turns out the 5 year old of the family we were staying while getting ready with took my bag for his and hid it.

A game bag or t shirt rolled up with poached grass inside works better than you thing as well as dry ground moss in the far north. A clean meat bag over your head works in a pinch to keep skeeters and no seeums off.

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That’s what I was thinking! Everyone waxing nostalgic on what I would consider torture.

Never with a cowboy roll. Napped in the dirt one day under a Huey. Woke up as it took off.

If you ain’t Cav, you ain’t chitt.

Nope. I've had a sleeping bag since I was 8.

Exactly

It weren’t the fairy tale experience that Wabitard and 7mmCowboy romanticize about.

I spent 2.5 months a year in one during elk and sheep season up the Gros Ventre back in the late 70's and early 80's. I don't remember where I got it, but it was pretty good sleeping as far as I am concerned. Of course getting up at 04:30 and hunting for 12 hours for days on end, will make sleeping on anything pretty easy.

Or say "Goddam it Badger, get the hell out of camp!"

Badger was a big old yellow horse who came back into camp, carefully checking every spot we had poured grain on the ground when we had arrived right at dark, just in case there was a kernel left.

We had just spread the bedrolls out right there after the horses finished. Except for Badger, who in pitch black, was making the rounds, carefully stepping over the bodies on the ground (8 of us, 16 horses and mules who were supposed to be out on their own hillside).

That grain feed could have been thought out better.

Those bedrolls were sure better than half-inch closed foam pad and lightweight sleeping bags I used on back-packing hunts!
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Yes.

No, but I once fell asleep on bare concrete during a lull in the action while helping someone pull an engine from a Corvette. The other guys thought it was pretty funny…..

If I spent a night on a cowboy bedroll now, I’d likely need to be hospitalized.

tarp and a bag, slept under tree boughs, wrapped up in canvas tarp, and blankets when lucky.

Don't knock it 'till you've tried it!

There's some wisdom here.

No does not look comfortable

Gents
Never in a cowboy roll. BUT I did sleep on a flak jacket in a poncho liner for bout a year!!
Semper Fidelis
Soup

Should we wake Dan and get him outta there?

Nah. He’ll move.

Also slept on concrete runway of AF bases as their damn birds broke and left us stranded, but going to be fixed any minute (while maintenance went home)