I stay till around 9, then spot and stalk my way back home. I will get back up in the stand around 230 or 3 and stay 30 minutes legal shooting light, just to let animals clear.

I am usually back at the camp by 9 amsharpen my knife, after cleaning my deer. No just kidding usually stay till around 11 or so in the early season. Rut long as there is activity I am in the stand. Evening from about 2 til dark.

I am in stand 1 hour before dark and until a bare minimum of 30 minutes after dark. I don't mind arriving in illegal shooting hours and leaving in illegal shooting hours because I have enough common sense not to shoot in those hours. I do understand the importance of arriving under the cover of darkness and leaving the same way.

I try to get on stand at about 30 minutes before first light and get out about 30 minutes after dark. Guess im legal eh?

I try to stay all day season is short and opportunity to hunt is hard to come by lately

Early season 1/2 to 1 hour before first light til around 10:30 back in stand by 3:30 til at least a 1/2 hour after dark

Mid season (rut) 1/2 hour to an hour before first light til 11:30 or noon back in at 1 or 1:30 til 1/2 after dark......(all day if I can)

Late season 1/2 hour before light til 9:30 or 10 (depending on how cold it is) back in stand no later than 2:00 til 1/2 hour after dark.

All day during the rut...

ou season is so long that the beggining of the season it is still pretty hot at the end of september so I am usually out in the morning by 930 10 and will return at about 6:30 7pm until about the middle of october and then I will try to stay in stand as long as my wife will not get mad about!!!

I used to climb down when I couldn't see the forrest floor 10 yards out anymore. Spooked a few deer that way. Now I wait maybe a half hour after dark and if I don't hear anything. I'll get down. At least a half dozen times, I've been stuck in the tree an extra hour or longer because of deer getting underneath me right at dark with no ETHICAL shot. Either had to wait them out, or spook them. One night I'd climbed down at dark, heard something behind me which I feared might be my favorite bear, only to see a ten point staring into myheadlamp. Game over[:@]

i usually stay till about 1030 in the morning i would like to stay longer but it gets hard for me to sit there after 1030