How long do you stay in the stand?

[shootermcgavin]

Let's say hunting hours are 7:00 am to 7:30 like today. Given that you have nothing else going on, how long do you stay in the stand?

What time do you try to be in the stand completely set up and still? What time do you leave? When go you head back in the afternoon and what time do you leave?

Does it change much as the rut draws near?

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[okieshooter777]

i usually like to set up half hour before legal shooting time. i generally stay early season (like now) until 10.. in the evening i like to get up there around 3:30-dark. about 4 hours and im out. sometimes less but during the rut a little longer. Seeing deer makes me stay longer.

 

[undeg01]

How dedicated are you???

Lots of variable to consider with this question, but my answers are...
1. Arrive at least 30-45 mins before shooting light.
2. Sit as long as you can comfortably bear it, and as long as the weather conditions are in your favor. If the wind and temp is comfortable, mosquitos aren't eating me alive, I have a comfortable seat and a book or something to pacify me, I'll sit past noon, then slip out to grab lunch, heading back in around 3:00 or 3:30.
3. I sit for at least 30 mins after last shooting light before leaving. Longer if there are deer nearby. And I sneak out as quietly as I sneak in.
4. My plans DEFINITELY change during rut. I sit all day when I can, when the bucks are cruising. Again, depends on your dedication and physical endurance.

 

[SnowCamo]

I usually stroll in about 15 minutes before shooting light. Most of the time spooking off deer while getting in the stand.
I'll sit 2-3 hours in the morning before making my way back to the house for breakfast.
During the rut I'll usually sit for an hour or two in the middle of the day.
Then sit another 2-3 hours in the evening.
If I'm seeing deer and I'll sit longer. Unless it's 10 degrees with sleet hitting me in the face. Then I'm hunting from said breakfast table.

 

[Okie4570]

This early in the season, if it's cool, couple hours in the morning, couple hours in the evening. We're still hunting feeding/bedding patterns this time of the year. I'll have some midday pics at the food piles, but no antlers, just doe and fawns. From about Halloween on I'll sit for as long as I can. Buck below is the biggest I've killed early. He died three days after the game cam pic, he liked to come in really early evening for whatever reason, but didn't come in until 6pm the day I shot him.

 

[Jeff405]

I only hunt Rifle when it's cold as Funk. Set an hour before sun up, No more than 4hrs and I got to move. Eve hunt Im set about 2-3 hrs before dark. If I had some sort of blind Im sure Id stay longer, but up in the tree in the dead of winter, Im weak.

 

[dlbleak]

I get cruiser bucks at my place from about now through the first few days of ML. I try to be in the stand as many mornings and evenings as possible. As for how long, depends on my back and butt!

 

[makeithappen]

I hunt mornings until 10:30 or 11. If deer are around, I'll stay put. In the evening I try to get out there and have about 4 hours to hunt.

 

[retrieverman]

Mornings, I try to be in the stand an hour or so before daylight and stay until 9:30-10:00, and evenings, I try to be back in the stand by 4:30ish and stay until I can get out without spooking deer. Once the time changes, I try to be in the stand around 3.

 

[dennishoddy]

Mornings, I try to be in the stand an hour or so before daylight and stay until 9:30-10:00, and evenings, I try to be back in the stand by 4:30ish and stay until I can get out without spooking deer. Once the time changes, I try to be in the stand around 3.

Pretty much my schedule, except during rut. Then it's daylight to dark in the stand. I get lots of reading in during deer season.