Morning Or Evening
10-20-2004, 02:31 PM
#22
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Honeyhole, IA USA
Posts: 494
RE: Morning Or Evening
Do you always wear camo paint? I've never worn that. Must be helpful. I see the results. Is it hard to get off?
It also gets me in the 'mood'.
P.S. Babywipes take it off fairly easily.
10-20-2004, 05:43 PM
#24
Join Date: May 2003
Location: New Braunfels, Texas
Posts: 172
RE: Morning Or Evening
I've spared many a deer's life because it was late in the day. Tracking isn't the problem but the environment I hunt is so thick the thought of doing it at dark keeps me from considering anything but a animal. The coyote population is high and they will clean up what you didn't find quickly. Gut piles are gone in hours usually. I vote for mornings and I usually have to drive 1.5 hrs. (100 miles) to get there unless I spend the night.
10-20-2004, 10:21 PM
#26
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Wisconsin, Shawano County
Posts: 48
RE: Morning Or Evening
I just like being out in the woods anytime. Personally I think mornings hunts are more productive for big bucks, but I still enjoy the evenings hunts more. I'm a young hunter and I find it easier to sit in the evenings, I think it's because you know the hunting is going to get better and getter as the darkness falls upon you compared to mornings when the hunting is best when you reach the stand and your chances diminish as the sun rises. Just remember, the best time to hunt is when the deer you're after is passing through, so just enjoy all the time in the tree you can get.
10-25-2004, 06:31 PM
#27
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 10
RE: Morning Or Evening
I went to a semiar knight/hale put on and also have read the following a couple times, though this thread makes me second guess all of it. The following is what I was told/read
I have found it to be true through experience (Though I have only hunted for 7 years).
Before rut 10:00 to 2:00 produces the most bucks, single or bachelor groups. Hunt near their bedding as caustiously as you can and you may catch them coming back to bed in the morning. THey then bed and get up mid day IE: 10:00 to 2:00 and meander around, especially when heavily pressured. The evening hunt between bedding and a food source, don't use real defined trails as it's likely does. They are bedded and get up a couple of hours before dusk, to feed and begin their nightly journey, in which the woods comes alive with deer. Of course during rut it's so unpredictable the more hours sitting the better. OVerall if you have to choose, hunt evenings, or 10:00 to 2:00 if you can.
The middle section is what they said. I have shot all my bucks in the morning with bow 9:30 to 10:00, give or take. I obviously enjoy mornings more, though with gun most have been taken before 8:30, as rut is peaked most the time during the first week of shotgun. Never hunted betwen 11:00 and 3:00. I have hunted the same woods for 7 years, this could be why I have experience what I have, as deer generally stick to family tradition and bed, rub, interact in the same genral area year to year.
I have found it to be true through experience (Though I have only hunted for 7 years).
Before rut 10:00 to 2:00 produces the most bucks, single or bachelor groups. Hunt near their bedding as caustiously as you can and you may catch them coming back to bed in the morning. THey then bed and get up mid day IE: 10:00 to 2:00 and meander around, especially when heavily pressured. The evening hunt between bedding and a food source, don't use real defined trails as it's likely does. They are bedded and get up a couple of hours before dusk, to feed and begin their nightly journey, in which the woods comes alive with deer. Of course during rut it's so unpredictable the more hours sitting the better. OVerall if you have to choose, hunt evenings, or 10:00 to 2:00 if you can.
The middle section is what they said. I have shot all my bucks in the morning with bow 9:30 to 10:00, give or take. I obviously enjoy mornings more, though with gun most have been taken before 8:30, as rut is peaked most the time during the first week of shotgun. Never hunted betwen 11:00 and 3:00. I have hunted the same woods for 7 years, this could be why I have experience what I have, as deer generally stick to family tradition and bed, rub, interact in the same genral area year to year.
