How early do you get in your stand

bowtech.tribute · 06-07-2008, 02:30 PM

In the morning i like to get in my stand well before dark. I make as little noise as possible, but just like to be in stand and ready at day break. when do you arrive at your stand in the morning?

AR Bowhunter · 06-07-2008, 02:38 PM

I like to get there so I can listen as everyone else at the camp is starting to start their atv's up an leave out. I would say about 30 mins before it starts to break daylight.

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early in · 06-07-2008, 03:04 PM

I hunt public land, so I like to be in my stand, and set up,a full hour before it starts to get light. Hence my username.

MECHDOC · 06-07-2008, 03:07 PM

4:30 am sharp.It gives me plenty of time to let the woods settle down after before sunrise.

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ICALL2MUCH · 06-07-2008, 03:13 PM

I get in early. Gives everything to settle down. I think it might be ok to get in later, but I do not want to take the chance...

early in · 06-07-2008, 03:15 PM

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I hunt public land, so I like to be in my stand, and set up,a full hour before it starts to get light. Hence my username.

Ohhh..thats where the username comes from. I had always figured you meant you hit the john FIRST thing in the morning. Man, I am dumb.

Early, lets play a trick on huntingbry. We should buy one of those fake bucks that the DNR uses to catch poachers and put it 80yards from his bow stand.

Light will break and he will go NUTS...Man that would be funny.

Quite the imagination DT!

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kevin1 · 06-07-2008, 03:25 PM

I go in when I feel like it. I don't worry about noise since any deer I spook will be replaced by the stragglers who come in after the spooky hard to target early crowd. I'm a meat only hunter, but I've noticed that there are plenty of trophy class bucks that stay out to the last minute to maximize their chance of breeding. Most trophy class deer are still young enough to make mistakes, only the very wary bucks breed at night exclusively, andyou will rarely see them after dawn so I don't concern myself with them since you will almost never see them. The hunter who breaks the current record should be viewed with a jaundiced eye since he or she will almost certainly have poached their trophy in some way, deer in that class are almost exclusively nocturnal.