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Mr.Bro said:
To much trouble to climb down and pretty good hike to the truck for this old man. I'll hang in the tree all day but don't expect much mid day movement. Prove me wrong and send a big one my way. Then I can count on 2 fingers.
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All day. 1 small buck at 430.
 
Speedwell-Hunter said:
Anyone hunt these hours?
or just am and pm?
what are your hour tactics? Thanks

-speedwell
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I absolutely do, if i have the opportunity. I find a great rut travel corridor, get in stand and sit all day. Sometimes I might climb down for an hour to rest. I don't have much time to do it anymore, but have spent many days in stand. I killed a nice 10 point at LBL several years ago at 3:30 after being in stand all day. It was second deer i saw all day. Killed many good bucks between 10am and noon over the years. I usually sit till at least 11-noon every morning hunt.
 
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My profile pic buck was shot at 11:00. Almost every large buck I've got on camera is appearing midday...
 
Speedwell-Hunter said:
Anyone hunt these hours?
or just am and pm?
what are your hour tactics? Thanks

-speedwell
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Yes before my health got bad I would hunt from 5 am to 11:30 still hunt out to the truck eat then still hunt back to stand till I know when I leave the stand I reach the truck at dark
 
I think in heavily hunted areas, a mature buck will feel more comfortable moving midday. I've killed bucks during these periods but rarely because I'm usually back at camp napping. I won't skip the morning hunt to hunt midday and I have limits sitting on stand. But, with a little advance planning, you could spend the day in the woods and improve your odds.
 
Normally early bow season I hunt till 11. Then get back in around 2. November if I can I hunt all day. This year I have barely been able to get out. But when I head to Ky on 11/19 I plan to sit all day until I come back on the 24th. Praying this is the year for a good buck up there!
 
I'm over at my farm doing some work and look up to see one of my target bucks hitting a scrape along the wood line at 11:30 this morning. I'm usually an in the blind 30 minutes before legal light and wrap up by 10am, then go back out around 3-4pm for the evening sit kind of guy. May have to switch it up after seeing that.
 
AT Hiker said:
I second what you and @Spurhunter said.

Just this past weekend I checked a camera I had hung at my grandmothers farm the end of Sept. Sitting in another stand Saturday evening I was scrolling through the pics, that morning at 9:30am a nice buck made an appearance.
Quick back story on that camera location;
My grandfather passed away in Feb of this year. I hung that camera in the stand location that he always hunted for muzzy opener. I couldnt bring myself to hunt it, just too much emotion at the time. That same stand about 10 years ago he killed the biggest buck off that farm, same weekend.
Back to the card pull....I was sitting their thinking "man, if Papa were here today he would have killed that buck"...then it hit me, no he wouldn't. 9am is about the time he climbs down and heads back to the house to start breakfast. He loved to hunt but the older he got he loved the overall experience even more. He spent more time getting the coffee pot and breakfast menu ready than he did on the hunt planning. I enjoyed it too, sitting there at the breakfast table bsn' about what we saw, or didnt see. Talking about the one that got away, or laughing that big hank is probably under our stand at this very moment while we are sitting at the table sipping coffee.

Sure, all the big antlers I have hanging on my wall are nice but those memories I have of drinking coffee with my grandad are priceless. If you can make those memories by sitting in a tree all day, great, but if not, you might be missing out on something more special.
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My dad doesn't deer hunt and it was my grandfather on moms side that my brother and I deer hunted with. What I wouldn't give for one more time at deer camp with him. Been gone since 2005.
 
Sunday morning of juvenile my son was ready to stop hunting at 10:00. Talked him into sitting for 15 more and at 10:05 a small 8 came cruising by. There are peak times, but when dealing with wildlife, you never know.
 
Hunted in Illinois one week. Paid some money to hunt on guys property. He semi guided me, which amounted to telling me where a ladder stand was on edge of corn field. Told me to hunt till 8:30. Then go back about an hour before dark. I told him that i brought my climber, and I would hunt all day. He told me i wad crazy, that deer didn't move in Illinois during the day. I went in a strip of woods between corn and thicket. I saw tons of deer all day long. Including the two biggest bucks I've ever seen. One of them at 2:30. The "guide" could not believe when I would come back each day telling him what I saw. Deer move all day long, particularly during the rut.
 
Just echoing what others have said, but you never know with this time of year. Usually we are all back at camp that time of day. It's just family on the lease so we use it to spend time together. But one of the only times I ever decided to go hunt mid-day I was walking in and hadn't made it 50 yards from the four-wheeler and heard a chase coming through the woods. It was pure luck but I dropped a 10 point. Shortest hunt I've ever had lol
 
I've personally not had much luck killing good bucks during mid day hunts but I continue to go during the rut. I have seen deer on their feet during those times, especially during changing weather conditions.
 
I'd rather be playing with my kids at those hours. In a few years I may join y'all in the afternoon but right now I tend to come home about the time they're all getting some weekend mojo. That's probably why I don't have any monsters on the wall but hopefully I'll have time for that later.
 
I sit all day from Nov 10-20th-ish.

I have shot my biggest 2 bucks around 1-2pm.

Last weekend watched a buck leave his bed at 2 running with his nose down where I saw a doe pass through an hour prior.

You dream about the rut all year so don't talk yourself out of sitting all day or find excuses to not sit all day during the rut.
 

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