I trynot to hunt destination spots in the morning, And not that keen on it in the evenings for the same reasons, getting in and out of the stand prime time for them to be there. Deer are consistent browsers and dont have to depend on any paticular food source to get by especially when pressured. SoI spend most of my time trying to bushwhack them somewhere along their to and from destination spots once I have established a pattern,but have also learned to be flexible over the years.
One year I was lucky enough to have a couple of hours of daylight in the morning befor I had to be to work and could leave early and glass one of my hunting spots. Creek bed bottoms farm land (combined corn and standing bean fields)where you could probably see for 2 miles about a 1000 yards deep to the woodline, to make a long story short, I watched a buck right at the crack of daylight, 2 out of 3 days,come out of the woodline, walk a short distance clean out a scrape then disappear back into the woodline and he repeated this process 8 times till he disappeared into a large marsh the creek feed at the end of the been field. I took my stand to work with me the next day (4th) and sat it up where the woods closed in to about 70 yards overlooking one of the scrapes, 26 yards to the scrape, 22 yards to the creek bed behind me in case he tried to slip by. And this is my point, even though I killed the buck the next morning hunting over his scrape, after backtracking him it was plain as the nose on your face he was huntingfor lovers by making his scrapes by major trails ending at destination points!
Its late, or early, I will post more thoughts and some questions on this thread later.