How long before daylight are you in your stand?

[Bill2e]

Come one, let’s all be honest here.


it really just depends on how long it takes the coffee to kick it.............

[Whitebeard]

Come one, let’s all be honest here.


it really just depends on how long it takes the coffee to kick it.............

This^ whether it's hunting or fishing.

[basscat21]

An hour

[MYRX]

I go in at day break most mornings. If I have to use my ATV to get to a stand, then add 30 min.

[limitlong]

I like to get in about 30 minutes before official sunrise time.

[KandKKustomz]

2 hours

[Transom]

I do not hunt much anymore. Got burned out on it but when I did 1 hour early was typical. I have been known to get in the stand extremely early if trying to fool a big buck if I had been having close encounters. Like 1 AM early.

[pwrfish]

This is interesting. I personally show up about shooting light. Doesn’t seem to effect any of my hunts. I will say it does depend. Sometimes I don’t crawl into my stand till 9:30 and stay through 3 on a full moon. Try it sometime

Nail on head!

[Capw]

I do not hunt much anymore. Got burned out on it but when I did 1 hour early was typical. I have been known to get in the stand extremely early if trying to fool a big buck if I had been having close encounters. Like 1 AM early.

1 am?? That’s insane! No wonder you got burned out.

[Transom]

1 am?? That’s insane! No wonder you got burned out.

A good buck is like a crack habit.

[BP in ME]

If I'm hunting close to the food source, I want to be in my stand and settled while it's still pitch black. If it's a travel lane or escape route I want to be there by legal shooting cause I figure it'll usually be a while before I get much action although I've had other hunters bump deer past me as they headed to their stands in gray light too.

[riverc]

This is interesting. I personally show up about shooting light. Doesn’t seem to effect any of my hunts. I will say it does depend. Sometimes I don’t crawl into my stand till 9:30 and stay through 3 on a full moon. Try it sometime

Thats similar to how I hunt,but usually stay till dark when I get on stand around 9 or 10 am.

[SOONER*REDNECK]

30-40 minutes before sun up

[SOONER*REDNECK]

I do not hunt much anymore. Got burned out on it but when I did 1 hour early was typical. I have been known to get in the stand extremely early if trying to fool a big buck if I had been having close encounters. Like 1 AM early.

LOL, No big in the world big enough for me to get in my blind or stand at 1 am. My ADHD would be so bad before the sun came up it wouldnt be funny!!!

[Aggie]

I go in about a half hour before sunrise so I can hunt my way in. Been deer hunting for 47 years and harvested most bucks between 9:30 and 10:30 am and just at last shooting light. Most of the deer in the morning are where neighboring hunters get down out of their stands. In my younger years I could sit there all day but now I don't put in as much effort as there are more deer than when I started hunting. I have also done my own processing all these years and it has become a chore. My wife will not eat any deer meat from the processor, you don't get your deer back most places around here.