i dont belive you guys, your saying you wake up at 5am or earlier, get in a stand at 6am and dont leave till 6pm?
thats 12 hours, you guys would probly make your self sick... and its really unnessary, the does still sleep during the afternoon, so the bucks wont be up.
Abarofsoap,
I have taken a full week and a half off of work second week of novemberfor the last couple of yearsand for 5 days in a row last year I sat in my stand from sunup to sundown. To tell you the truth by the third day I don't want to wake up and Im tired as hell and it really sucks, not to mentionhow stiff you get from sitting in a stand all day.I have seensome very bigbucks between 10:30 and 2:00. During the rut these big guysget back up and go what I call, "bedding area hunting" theyskirt orgo check out bedding areas for hot does and when they do this they bump deer around and follow does to see if they are in heat. I sit in funnelsin between bedding areas and wait for them to come through. Last year I had a 160ish chase a doe right under my stand but I couldn't get a shot at him, that was at 1:15 in the midday!
YOu should try it, like I said itfeels like work after day twobut how good would you feel putting that much time and work into it and it works out for you!It's better than working orsitting at home.
PS...The buck in my avatar scored around 130 and I shot him at 2:00.