Box blind I lean it in a corner.
Pop-up blind I either put in my caldwell fieldpod or lay it across my pack.

My deer come from all directions and are usually crossing in a hurry. Makes it hard to plan ahead of time.

My binos are on a harness, so I have them in reach and can "drop" them and go for the rifle, hard to beat a harness for binos.

That

This. I've been caught too many times not ready.

Corner. No way I'm holding a rifle in my lap the whole time I'm in the blind

Mine sits on the window frame or on sticks

We all shoot with heavy barrel bench rest type (wide fore-end) rifles. With little effort you can balance it in the window opening pointed toward a feeder. No holding or moving a gun around is required.
Stainless barrel is wrapped in camo tape. I have had deer spook from a shiny barrel a few times, cheapo tape fixed the problem.

corner

Most of my serious lease hunting is from tripods or a basic chair on the ground with a rifle in my lap. But when lazy and hunting my tower blind the main window is opened and rifle is placed on a sandbag sighted somewhere under the feeder. Binoculars are either set on another sandbag or on a shelf next to me. If it is a shot near the feeder I lean forward to look down the scope and sight the rifle using only my trigger hand. My left hand never touches the rifle for the shot unless I have to move the rifle to another window. My stand is backed up in the trees. As far as I can tell, I have never had a deer take notice of the rifle in the window. Turkeys watch it and everything else like a hawk, but it is movement they are looking for, not an open window or rifle.

I always put mine in the corner on my left, and my husband has his out the window and ready to go. The main reason for that being he's blind, so it's easier for him to just have his ready to go. Since I'm his "eyes" in the blind it's easier for me to not have to juggle a rifle along with binoculars and the LCD monitor that hooks up to his digital scope (which is how I "see" for him and direct him). So far I haven't spooked a deer moving to get my rifle.

Always in the corner, it's hard to nap with a .270 in your lap. But in all seriousness, I'm 15 feet up and 150 yards away... I don't think a barrel sticking out a window is going to spook much.

It doesn't spook deer at all FME. Hunting in a box blind during the rut (10 ft up) when I am hunting on the ready with a barrel out the window I have had does right up next to the blind, under the window. Just watch the deer if you are going to move, learn a lot of these lessons bow hunting. On the property I hunt in Duval, missed an opportunity on the biggest buck I have ever seen there in 20 yrs because that morning I didn't feel like hunting on the ready during the rut. He popped out at 200 yrds and stopped broadside in the sendero, could tell he was a big bodied mature buck. I don't know why, but I grabbed the binoculars instead of my rifle. All I saw was horns. Dropped the binos and grabbed the rifle. Before I could get the barrel out the window he was gone and never seen again, and I am quick with a rifle. I hunted on the ready a lot that year, but not that morning.

I hope you pulled the trigger.

My rifle goes in the corner.

I do this as well

A lot depends on hunting pressur too. I have hunted places where when the deer come out they look at the blind and if the windows are open they leave.

Same except it's video so I press record.

with a feeder on both sides of the blind and a long sendero in front, would be difficult to accurately predict where the shot will be-in corner or in lap.

with a feeder on both sides of the blind and a long sendero in front, would be difficult to accurately predict where the shot will be-in corner or in lap seems to work best.

Depends. If I have a way for it to be set and ready, then it is set and ready. For example, I have a popup ground blind with a table inside the rifle is ready in one direction.

In the elevated box stand, leaned in a corner.

In a couple other stands, if the rifle will set on the rail, I set it on the rail, tethered to the stand, otherwise it is the spare set or in a corner.

I built my stand with a 2x4 laying flat on all windows. My stand hunting rifles have flat forearm stocks on them, and they will sit balanced on the window ledge with very little risk of tipping them off. My feeder and most of the action is out one window, so my rifle sits in that ledge anytime I'm in the stand.

I have deer walk 30yds from my stand and never pay attention to the windows being swung out or the rifle sitting in the window. But I am 20' in the air too.

Out the window safety off finger on the trigger