Early in the season I' ll get out around 10:00 or 10:30 then head back to the stand around 1:00 or 2:00, but come the end of October I usually stay all day. There is just to much daytime deer movement going on at that time of the year to be anywhere else but in the stand. You can' t get one if you are back at the house...Of course, I didn' t get one even though I stayed in the woods...[:' (]