mornings im in the stand by 9 and out by 2 , i have had ALOT of deer move from 9-2 when the temps are right
when do you all start to hunt the mornings? early season, i mostly hunt evenings but at what point do you make the switch?
I dont like morning hunts personally... for a few reasons 1) im lazy and i enjoy sleeping on my day off 2) ive spooked more deer setting up in the dark then ive ever killed early morning 3) refer to # 1 Ive just always seen more between the hours of 10 - 2 and then again in the evening then i have in the morning, of course that may just be me and the fact that i dont hunt early mornings as often
Im more of an evening hunter also. Went out this morning and bumped them out and I went in 1.5hrs before any light. That seems to be my luck with morning hunts. I also like to sleep in and be lazy....
Try the middle of the day, even in early season... alot of people dont, but I have had some really good luck thru the years between 10 and 2
it starts getting light here around 5:40 AM shooting light is at 6:23 AM, and i'll be set up a few feet from the bedding thicket. so I plan on being in my stand no later than 4. My hopes are that I can beat the deer to the bedding area by getting in there early enough and Ninja style of course.
I don't start hunting mornings until around the last 10 days of Oct. I stay on stand until around noon if not 1:00. I have seen a lot of buck activity over the years from around 10:00 - 12:00.
I pretty much given up on mornings until gun season or after all the corn is off, jumping up too manyon the way in getting through the corn fields.
Yeah, if you want to hunt the mornings with a bow you really gotta get in there early. I'm not a fan of waking up early either. I usually wake up at 530 and am in the blind, stand or spot by 615. Deer will start to come out before light and on numerous occasions I've had deer right up on me that I couldn't see in the dark. Will never forget the time I was pissing out the back of the blind and noticed a buck walking up not 40 yards from my blind right as first light was starting
This guy has got it going on!!!!And if I were a betting man he's my pick at kill'n some grub! Do the time and enjoy nailing some significant deer, it is what you put into it!! Ninja Style of course!!!! I love these little brown tasty critters! But now all I do is jump rope! Fat Ninja Warrior frick'n Sheep!!!! Baaaaaaaaaaaaaad! I can't help my poop looks like a deer's. but I still never tire even a 4 A.M.
I think the guy above me was drunk when he posted that. That being said, I will get us back on track. I enjoy morning hunts more than any other. However, if you don't have a clean entrance and exit, and are not willing to go to bed at 8pm the night before, forget it. I like to get in my stand or blind an hour before light. It takes me 30 min to wake up shower and dress, 20min to drive to where I hunt, so I gotta get up at least two hours before daylight. I don't like tracking at night. If given the choice I think we all would choose daylight to follow a blood trail. I hunt in the woods in the mornings, on the travel route back to bedding from the fields. The hardest part is getting close enough to the bedding area without spooking the deer but seeing them in shooting light. Play the wind, enjoy the sunrise. Good Luck.
In at least 30 minutes before first light. This time of year Iit seems the best chance to kill a mature buck is the last few minutes of light. In the morning that is cruising for those last few acorns or comming off of a feed field. If you aren't in the stand well before they get back into bed you will never have a shot to get after these deer and ultimately may be bumping them and altering their core area. Sit til 9:30 right now, but as we near late October it becomes later in the morning and eventually its all day sits for this guy. For me it is all about access for morning and night stands. If I can't get in with minimal detection then its not a stand worth hunting in both the AM or PM. You have to really play the wind getting in 2 and you wont be kicking deer out. If you are then one really needs to think about possible other access routes.
My exit time depends on weather, activity, and the particular stand I'm in. Any where from 2 hours after sunrise to noon or 1. If you are bumping deer on your way in on morning hunts, you need to change your entry route, or your stand location.
Love morning hunts. Always tend to see more deer in the mornings... I try and get into my stand no later than 45 min before sun up... Ninja like is a given... the closer it gets to rut the better the mornings are it seems... Halloween weekend was pretty awesome last year!
I just got a doe Sunday 9 AM after bumping deer along a field on my way in the dark. One of the bucks that I bumped came up to my tree around 8:00 AM to have a bite to eat on the white oak acorns falling from the tree next to me. Mornings can be just as successful or better than evenings if you strategize your entrance and stand sites well. Unlike the person above who posted they don't hunt AMs until the corn is out I am just the opposite. I tend to hunt less AMs once the corn is out unless I am hunting on a property where I can enter my stand without stepping foot in the picked field(s). I noticed this a few years back during gun season in WI where we would never have any success in the AM when we parked at the edge of the field and walked to our stands. Around 2008 the other guys in my group hunted another property for the AM so I entered my stand from another direction, but straight thru a woods and pasture. I took the 5th deer seen that morning...a double split brow tine 10 pointer. I just continue to learn by trial and error!
I love morning hunts, I usually see lots more deer than any other time (knock on wood). No offense, but some of you guys sound lazy. It takes me over an hour to drive to my hunt club, and I still am in my stand before it starts getting light. I've been waiting for this Saturday all year, and I probably won't even sleep Friday night.
