When do you prefer to deer hunt?

[HICKMAN]

We all have busy lives and schedules and many of us can't dedicate from sun up to sun down to sit in a stand.

When do you prefer, or have the most success?

 

[selinoid44]

I had to choose, so I chose evening. I love sitting in the fence row watching the deer come to the corn field to feed. I have to say I like morning too. If you have the time do both. If not do what you have to do to make it happen. Full moon I might have chosen midday. I have probably killed more deer in the evening. Bow hunting I'd be in the woods not in the fence row. I dedicate two weeks of my vacation every year to deer hunting.

 

[Hoosierdood]

I prefer morning just because I don't like to track, gut, and drag my deer out of the woods in the dark.

 

[Kcustom45]

As much as I hate waking up in the morning I think I have had better success in the mornings.

 

[itstheKman]

I like to do both morning and evening, but I especially like morning. There's just something about being in the woods as it wakes up.

 

[dbd870]

I'd say I've had about equal success morning or evening. I prefer morning as I'm not dressing it in the dark.

 

[HICKMAN]

skip the "when I have to dress it stuff"

when are you more successful seeing or shooting deer?

 

[Bradsknives]

skip the "when I have to dress it stuff"

when are you more successful seeing or shooting deer?

I have taken deer all through the day, but by far I have had better success in the morning from sun up to about 11am.

 

[DaveyCrink]

I really like the morning. just because i can sit there and watch the sun come up. sublime.

 

[ViperJock]

I would prefer morning, but its a lot easier to get out late afternoon. I think people must be klling all the deer I would see during the day though cause its been weeks since I've even seen a deer.

 

[rkesar]

I've had better luck in the evenings

 

[ISP 5353]

I looked back in my journal for the answer to this and the answer is... All of the above. During early archery, I have had better luck, over the years, in the late afternoon or evening. Late archery has been better in the morning. Gun season and the RUT seems to be evenly spread throughout the day. It may have something to do with weather patterns or the crop rotations of a given year. Sorry I could not narrow it down.

 

[slipnotz]

At our location, we have taken more deer in the evening due to their feeding habits. As said before, it is hard to trail and field dress in the dark.

 

[AGarbers]

Over the years I have seen just a little more in the evening. However, that changes if you count the dozens that walk right under me before legal shooting light then never see again all day...

 

[ylwfever69]

I picked morning even though I am not a morning person. I have had better luck hunting in the morning in Indiana, but when I hunt in Kentucky I don't think it matters there are deer everywhere down there.

 

[shooter1054]

The most productive time for me to be in the woods is any time I can get there. I have taken deer at all time of the day. I just want to be in the woods.

 

[SSGSAD]

All of the above, I LOVE being in the woods, when all the "other" hunters get up and leave !!!!!

 

[rao]

I have had more success in the evenings than I have in the mornings. However, during the peak of the rutt, I have had great success between 10am - 2pm. The bucks roam all day so I usually sit most of the day during that time only.

 

[starbreather]

I like the morning, get out and the woods wake up & the weather change.

 

[Cerberus]

I'm not very successful at dropping deer, but I can say I have seen more between 1030-noon that any other timeframe.

Come to think of it, the most successful hunter I know, never even enters the woods until after he's eaten lunch, and then he's there at most an hour before he's back with a dead deer.