Before last season I never cared to hunt in the AM. Rather sleep in than get out of the bed two hours before sun light and sit in the stand. Mostly due to never seeing any deer in the mornings.

Last season changed my whole out look on morning hunting. I have a small tract of land that has a creek bottom running through it. This bottom is a few miles long and connects many farms, pine stands, and hard wood bottoms.

It is literally a deer high-way in the mornings. They use it to move from the adjoining farm land back to their beds on my land and an adjoining cut over. It is very low land with thick cane patches so the deer can move through it w/o leaving cover.

I seen and killed more deer last year during the AM than I did during the afternoons, including shooter bucks.

This is my first year bow hunting and it gets even better. The farmer who owns the 1,000ac around my little tract of landplanted corn and soy beans this year. The "high" part of my land connects to the soy beans and the lower creek bottom goes right to the corn field.

This coming season should be one of the best I've ever had.

Last year proved to me that given the right conditions hunting in the AM can be more productive than I ever imagined.This coming season, I want to stay i the stand longer. I am sure that the more mature deer are probably using the same route, but closer to mid-day.

Remember though that a morning set-up can be considerably more sensitive to hunting pressure and your disturbances than other set-ups. I would be very careful not to over hunt the area or get to carried away with whackin' deer especially if it's something mature you want. Good luck but be careful. Great morning set-ups are rare so treat it well.

Ditto. I've only been hunting for a few years now but I've learned the importance of this. I don't care how dark it is. I usually try and get to stand a minimum of half hour before legal shooting but more often than not an hour to let things settle down. But anyway, I try to pick a low lying route that will help me go in visually undetected and make sure that its a quite route too. Even if that means bringing a rake to move leaves away. Some guys even go into their areas at noon with a gas leaf blower and clear out their path so they can be stealthy in the morning and evening hours.

I am an AM hunter, I will only get out about 2-3 night hunts a year. Mornings are good

i LOVE THE MORNING HUNTS ALSO

Before last year I had only hunted in the evenings. But last year the few times I woke up early enough I saw alot more deer mostly bucks. This year I am going to try to get my lazy butt out of bed alot more.

I really like the morning hunts. I prefer them over hutning in the afternoon but i ussually do both.