Getting to your stand
#12
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 120
RE: Getting to your stand
each stand i sit on it seems the deer come in at diff times. so sometimes its 30 mins. and sometimes its an hour. now honestly though on the 2 min to 10 min drive it always seems i drive faster no matter how soon i leave.
#16
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Ohio,mid
Posts: 1,275
RE: Getting to your stand
45 minute to an hour. I have ot get ahead of the city hunters who come crashing in at a little before daylight. That way they the deer are heading towards me and looking back over their little shoulders at Teddy Orange Hunter Bear drinking coffee at light, smoking cigs and smelling like last nights garlic laced spaghetti!!
#20
RE: Getting to your stand
We head up about an hour and 15 minutes early.They guys have their ATV's and I grab a ride up the hill with them.That gets me to my stand an hour early. I use it to put out scents, open up the windows, set everything up as to binocs, thermos, candy, calls, all within reach. You just don't want to disturb anything coming through during that first 15 minutes where you can actually see something, but it's still too dark to shoot. If something big was in your area and walks away, you'd like to be able to start calling him back so when it starts getting light enough, he'd been re-entering your domain, especially on opening day.