Morning or Evening hunts ?

[.243 Deer]

Which do y'all prefer, morning or evening hunts ?

Personally, I'm more of a morning hunter because I feel like I see more deer. Late December is the only time I'll do an evening hunt because it's less cold out.
Sometimes it's difficult getting up in the morning if it's 20 degrees out !

 

[deerhunter10]

I like mornings better because I love watching the woods wake up. I'll have to calculate it but we are very close to 50 50 on bucks kills since 2002.

 

[Jcalder]

I probably see more in the evenings and also lately probably killed more of the evening. But I do all day sits anymore

 

[Carlos]

I would have never guess it would be split 50/50 but that's where it's at right now.

 

[CATCHDAWG]

Morning. I'm not mad enough at them anymore to deal with all the work at bedtime.

 

[Urban_Hunter]

My whole life I've preferred mornings… but I've transitioned. I see more and we have killed more, especially mature bucks, in the evening.

 

[cbhunter]

Morning. I'm not mad enough at them anymore to deal with all the work at bedtime.

I share your thought exactly. Seems rare it's cold enough to let them hang overnight anymore. Well that's partly because I'm mostly done when duck season starts.

Too much headache in the evening, especially when you process your own

 

[mike243]

Every property is different when it's small tracts, deer will follow a pattern and you have to find out when you have the most traffic, behind my mother-in-law's house 3:30 till dark, nearby property has been cut and more folks hunting the lines, not sure what's going on up there now.

 

[30-06 type of guy]

Mornings for sure. I hunt public and after about a week after the rifles come out I don't really care for evenings that much. If I can remember correctly all my bucks except for 2 were killed before noon.

 

[backyardtndeer]

I really do prefer to kill them in the mornings, but I have probably killed equally as many mature deer in the afternoons.

 

[Dennis]

It depends on how far I have to go to get to the hunting spot. For years I hunted a place that was about an hour and a half drive. I hunted that almost exclusively in the afternoons.

But I had better action in the morning overall.

 

[Lost Lake]

I MUCH prefer morning hunts. Especially during archery season, and almost to the point that I'd rather hunt til noon and skip the afternoons.

But, it's honestly about a 50/50 split on larger bucks I've killed vs mornings/evenings.

 

[Ski]

I share your thought exactly. Seems rare it's cold enough to let them hang overnight anymore. Well that's partly because I'm mostly done when duck season starts.

Too much headache in the evening, especially when you process your own

It does make for a late night, and the older I get the harder that is on me.

That said my bucks are probably pretty 50/50 morning vs evening, but by far the biggest were evenings.

 

[cbhunter]

It does make for a late night, and the older I get the harder that is on me.

That said my bucks are probably pretty 50/50 morning vs evening, but by far the biggest were evenings.

My big (er) bucks are about 75/25 mornings. And this was when I was younger and hunted all I could…morning and evenings.

 

[.243 Deer]

My biggest bucks were shot in the evening but man, I love watching the woods wake up !

 

[UCStandSitter]

Had better luck in the evenings where I hunt. That said, I like mornings and evenings about even. Positives and negatives to both

 

[Volbuck777]

Mornings. All my mature bucks have been killed in the morning except my biggest and he was right before dark, I get 10 times more pics of mature bucks in the morning also. I've never hunted anywhere that evenings are better.

 

[wcw280]

As long as you're in the woods and not on the couch you got a chance. I've seen a bunch of big deer killed at weird times

 

[Gravey]

I like watching the sun come up and God's creatures come to life but also something to be said about that last "magic hour" right before dark.

 

[tellico4x4]

Dawn to lunch for me for mature bucks. Afternoon for quantity of deer.