I've been reading some bowhunting articles on Pederson's - a few of their pros say to avoid morning hunts in the early season over a feeding area. Their reasoning is odds are you will only scare bucks out walking in the dark - this will make a mature buck change his pattern or avoid the feeding area. The guy suggests hunting these areas only in afternoon when deer are more predictable.- My addiction will make it hard to avoid hunting opening morning, but I don't wanna screw up the deer.... Anyone else run into this problem?

Yep that's why i don't do it anymore.I hunt on ridges in the morning.

My house is where the deer feed at night and then slowly filter back up the mountain eating acorns as they go. I haven't been able to get around in front of them no matter how far down the road, up the mountain, or early I get up. I always bump them. I've learned to either sleep in and go up around 8 AM and get the bucks cruising through for a mid morning snack or go hunt somewhere else in the morning.

Deer get one last feed in just before heading back to the bedding areas. Now if they are feeding in the field and you walk up on them ?????

I use to hunt everywhere ,never made a difference .always got a deer

mornings = travel route between food to bed

evenings = travel route between bed to food

rut = all day in funnels between doe bedding areas and food

I VERY rarely actually set up on the food source. All it takes is a split second wind change and every deer in that field knows they are being hunted.

Luckily I don't have any food plots or fields to hunt so I hunt oak flats and ridges morning and evening.

I hunt a couple hundred yards off of food sources in the morning. I have never had the problem they mentioned.

i dont hunt feeding areas in the morning but I will hunt the trails leading from feeding areas to bedding areas!