RE: Success Rate...Morning vs. Afternoon
It all depends on the exact area you are hunting...with my spots, morning action is 3x better than afternoon....for both numbers seen, and quality of bucks seen.
I dont know enough about the big picture of the area to determine the WHY, but if I only got one hunt in this place, good money would be placed on me getting in there in the morning.
Ive been the opposite really. Ive always hunted mornings for the past 8-9 years, and only in the past few years started hunting afternoons very seriously.