Do you like mornings or afternoons??
----I like evenings!
01-10-2008 | 05:58 PM
#22
Boone & Crockett
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From: Hughesville, PA USA
RE: Do you like mornings or afternoons??
I like the mornings because as light begins to filter in, my anticipation goes up.
Conversely, in the evening, after magic hour, light fades and so does my anticipation.
That being said, I like mornings but have tagged the majority of my bucks in the evenings. 4 of the last 6 bucks I have been taken, were taken in the evening as well as sighting the best buck of my life.
From what I've read too, the P&Y club documents that the majority of entries have come from evening hunts.
Conversely, in the evening, after magic hour, light fades and so does my anticipation.
That being said, I like mornings but have tagged the majority of my bucks in the evenings. 4 of the last 6 bucks I have been taken, were taken in the evening as well as sighting the best buck of my life.
From what I've read too, the P&Y club documents that the majority of entries have come from evening hunts.
01-10-2008 | 06:08 PM
#24
Boone & Crockett
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From: Hughesville, PA USA
RE: Do you like mornings or afternoons??
I wonder though if my success in the evenings stems from the fact that I hunt 5 times as many evenings as mornings? I can hunt every evening after work but only mornings on Saturdays and during the last week or two of the season when I'm on vacation.
01-10-2008 | 06:23 PM
#26
Fork Horn
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From: Selinsgrove, PA
RE: Do you like mornings or afternoons??
I like morning hunts better, I guess it's because most of my kills have been in the morning hours.
With that being said tho, my best buck to date was taken on an evening hunt. [&:]
With that being said tho, my best buck to date was taken on an evening hunt. [&:]
01-10-2008 | 06:40 PM
#28
Nontypical Buck
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From: Virginia / West Virginia
RE: Do you like mornings or afternoons??
ORIGINAL: huntingson
I like mornings. No real reason other that I just like watching the woods "wake up", the sun slowly melt the frost, etc. Best time to be in the woods as far as I am concerned.
I like mornings. No real reason other that I just like watching the woods "wake up", the sun slowly melt the frost, etc. Best time to be in the woods as far as I am concerned.
And....I actually have MUCH better success, both in sightings and taking deer in the mornings. I rarely take one in the evening, but its not due to lack of effort.
01-10-2008 | 07:33 PM
#29
Typical Buck
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From: Illinois
RE: Do you like mornings or afternoons??
GregH is spot on again, for fear of repeating I say.......X2!
ORIGINAL: GregH
50/50
My success rate is 50/50 as well. I perfer mornings because it is easier to deal with getting your deer out after shooting it. However......
The bottom line is you have to be there when the deer are. This is dependant on the time of season. Early in the season the evenings seem best. During the rut, both are good. Late season it switches back to evenings. On average I suspect that evenings win over mornings, but when it comes to november, I believe it to be closer to 50/50.
50/50
My success rate is 50/50 as well. I perfer mornings because it is easier to deal with getting your deer out after shooting it. However......
The bottom line is you have to be there when the deer are. This is dependant on the time of season. Early in the season the evenings seem best. During the rut, both are good. Late season it switches back to evenings. On average I suspect that evenings win over mornings, but when it comes to november, I believe it to be closer to 50/50.
01-10-2008 | 08:01 PM
#30
Fork Horn
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From: Tennessee
RE: Do you like mornings or afternoons??
I like the afternoons.....because of the relaxed time frame involved. You're always bound to a "finishing" time (darkness). I sometimes wonder as I'm leaving the woods in the mornings.....if I've left a little too soon.
My first ever hunt this year my buddy and I were in the same tree and we clombed down about 9 am...and that is exactly what he said to me "Its about this time that a bruiser comes strolling up"....
I love the mornings but always have that feeling that the buck of a lifetime is 400 yards away and just hasn't got to me yet!!!