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whats your favorite time to hunt deer?

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i voted sunrise to 8.00 am but would have voted sunrise to 10 am if it was there

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All day cause deer hunting can be so unpredictable.

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My favorite time is right at sunrise, to me its just an awsome feeling getting to hear and see the woods wake up. As for my most productive time it has beem either late morning like 9:00-10:00 or the last hour of daylight.

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That poll is actually difficult to answer because the time changes with day light savings. I like the 1.5 to 2 hours before last light and that changes again, as the season rolls on.

I believe that P&Y statistics also say that the majority of entries are taken in the evening. Don't get me wrong, I love first light more however I've taken more deer particularly bucks at last light.

Also, I like mornings better only because of this thought: In the morning as light gathers, anticipation increases, in the evening as light fades, so does anticipation.

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I love the early morning because the woods come alive and it's really neat.

However, the last 30 minutes of shooting light regardless of what time it is has been the most productive for me hands down.

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i agree but i marked it so you can vote for multiple things

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From: Oct 13th to Oct 25th 7:00 am to 10:00am
From : Oct 25th to Nov 25th All Day.....

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LOL at isatarak, look at our posts and the times posted, identical thoughts.;)

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I like the evenings because I dont like to get up early, but I see a lot more deer in the morning. Also, as someone else said, the morning is much more magical. There is no feeling in the world like seeing the sun creeping over the horizon and hearing the woods come alike. Everything is much crisper and more clear in the mornings. It is a new beginning

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I picked 3:30 till whenever but if it was there it'd be 3:30 till dark ...

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I like the Early AM, the Earlier the better. imo. I like to get into my treestand WAY WAY WAY before light, bungee strap myself against the tree set my cell phone alarm for vibrate, check my saftey harness, and fall asleep.:D

Then by the time i wake up its still not light out and i am all ready to go and everything has had a good chance to settle down before anything happens.

Ryan.

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I voted sunrise because there is nothing quite like being 20 feet up on a fall morningand watching the world come awake. The smell of the leaves... a touch of frost... the first glimmer of sunlight...nothing like it. This morning it was 38 at the house. Now all I need is for the next 10 days to pass. I took a long walk around the woods and into the swamp this morning. Started right out the back door. About 3 hours of sneaking and peeking on the wet ground. I circled and zigged through the whole woods behind the house, mostly near the edges until I cut through the swamp to come home. I walked up on 2 groups of deer, 3 in one and 4 in the other. They never spooked. I walked right on by. I had 3 does at 30 yards broadside. The second group at 40. They just watched and never moved. I walked on by. If only I'd had my bow.:D A sneaked out to a field and caught another 5 feeding at about 80 yards. I jumped 2 nice bucks bedded together inthecedar/hemlockswamp. They didn't hang around. I was being so quite and stumbled over one of those hemlock bogs and snapped a limb trying to keep my balance. They exploded from about 40 yards and never looked back. One was the big 8 point I've been seeing. I was one tired puppy when I got back to the house. I saw 14 deer in their domain but I covered a lot of ground and drank 2 bottles of water. I love early morning.

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Good thoughts Rob on anticipation,

If I had to pick one time of day for hunting it would be the last hour of daylight for the
following reasons:

(1) more deer sightings.

(2) increased animal activity (racoons, bobcats, etc.) Where I hunt we have a lot of wooducks
that roost and I love watching/hearing them come in and make a racket.

(3) I like how as it gets dark and very quiet and your visibility gets limited and starts playing tricks
on you, you start keying in on all the noises around you and relying more on your sense of sound.

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I said 10 to 1 but it is more like 10 to 3. The reason I say this is b/c I hunt publicland were there are many other hunters. Most hunters don't stay in the woods all day and when they leave or come in the deer stir a little.

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Evening to sunset. I love the last hour on hunting...

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Last hour of light.....

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i like that. but the sleeping part seems pretty dangerous

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Whenever I can!

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Sunrise to 11:00 a.m. Never have seen a decent buck in the afternoon. Maybe it isn't the deer but where I position myself??????

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First hour of daylight--I have had more success in the evening but I think that can be chalked up to having more evening hunts. I think that perhaps that is also why there are more P&Y entries for the evening, more people have time off. I looked at my hunting journal for the past year. I saw more shooter bucks in the morning on a proportional to time out basis. As for total deer #s however, it was pretty much a tossup.

Anybody else have similar stats?

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I like mornings and have killed most of my deer in the mornings, however most of my mature buck encounters took place between 10:30am and 2pm.

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i agree i have seen most of my deer in the evening but if could get out of bed i would love to watch the woods come alive every moring there is nothing like itand that is actually what got me hooked on hunting.

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first thing in the morning for me.