I prefer morning, I hate cleaning a deer in the dark.

This was a tough one. I voted for morning, but I am comforted and rejoice in the realization that I hunt both morning and evening!

I like morning because I like finding my way through the woods in the dark. I like the sense of excitement I feel when I reflect on what may happen when the light grows. I like to listen to the sounds of the woods, perhaps two owls calling back and forth to each other, and to see the brilliant stars overhead, including Orion the hunter. I like having plenty of energy to cope with hauling my deer out, getting it checked in, and getting it back home with the rest of the day in front of me.

I like the evening because I actually have slightly more luck deer hunting in the evenings than the mornings (3:2 of evening kills versus morning kills over my 5 years of deer hunting). It isn't as cold in the evenings. I enjoy the realization that a good evening meal, a warm home, and a comfortable bed wait for me on my return.

My least favorite time of the hunt is immediately upon parking my truck at the hunting grounds in the morning and I have to venture out from the warm comfortable environment of the truck into the harsh, cold, darkness. This discomfort lasts until I pull on my warm clothes in the back of the Suburban (balaclava head covering, warm parka). By the time I have loaded my cartridges into my rifle and am closing the back of the truck, however, my discomfort has passed, I'm snug and warm in my parka, and I'm getting into it.

Nathan

you are a dirty man but that was very well played!!!!!! got me laughing for a while!!!!!

I like both but I like the morning better. I seem to have more luck betweensunrise and noon than noon and sundown. But thats me.

mornings in the rut.....nights in the early season/ late season

I can do either but I like that "witching hour" at twilight when the woods come alive. When everything has that "glow" about it.

I'll take both. In my neck of the woods, big deermove better in morning.

It turns out that i am able to hunt many more afternoons than mornings just becuase of my schedule but i definately like mornings better because its usually brighter and i can see better. Not only that, nothing like watching the sun rise.

I prefer the morning, but any woods time is a good time

I prefer the afternoon because:

I am two lazzy to get out of bed before daylight these days.

All of the deer that I have shot have been shot in the afternoon as far as I can recall.

But any time is a good time you never know what is going to happen and when.