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 Time of Day?
#1904772
12/09/10 04:58 PM
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Drop Tine
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What times are you guys seeing:
1) The most deer?
2) The most MATURE Bucks?
Seems like here lately, I see very little from daylight till 9 or so. Same for the evenings, very little action after 4:30? Weird season????
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Re: Time of Day?
[Re: Drop Tine]
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12/09/10 05:00 PM
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TreeBass
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My big boys show up half hour after shooting light, and an hour before  The rest all day long
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Re: Time of Day?
[Re: Drop Tine]
#1904794
12/09/10 05:02 PM
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TXW
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I agree it is a weird season. Basically no activity until about 8:45 and that is spotty at best. Evening activity starts with about 10 minutes of shooting light left. Needless to say, it has caused allot of sitting and staring this year. 
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Re: Time of Day?
[Re: TXW]
#1904800
12/09/10 05:03 PM
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txhunter24
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Deer are moving later in the mornings and earlier in the evenings then again after dark. I have not seen a big buck in person all season.
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Re: Time of Day?
[Re: txhunter24]
#1904807
12/09/10 05:04 PM
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rifleman
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Sparkly Pants
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8AMish is when we can bank on seeing activity. Never fails, rain, sleet, shine...8AM deer will be on the fields.
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Re: Time of Day?
[Re: rifleman]
#1905376
12/09/10 07:56 PM
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DANIEL32
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I hunt in Dewitt Co. best times to get the deer moving
Morning 6:30am-8:00am
Afternoon 5:15pm-6:00pm
This season the mornings have been better for me. On a side note when the weather has been HOT the movement has been SLOOOOOOW. The day after a cold front blows through gets them moving
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Re: Time of Day?
[Re: DANIEL32]
#1905409
12/09/10 08:04 PM
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bigbuck1
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I am see deer from 7: to 9 am and from 5:15 to 6;00pm. But am not seeing any big bucks at all.
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Re: Time of Day?
[Re: TreeBass]
#1905498
12/09/10 08:32 PM
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Sirrah243
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[quote=TreeBass]My big boys show up half hour after shooting light, and an hour before My life story!
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Re: Time of Day?
[Re: Drop Tine]
#1905601
12/09/10 09:07 PM
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TX_Huntress
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In Brady, I see the most activity in the morning, 6:30-8:30 and close to the same numbers in the afternoon 4:00-6:00. However, I see the biggest bucks early morning.
In east TX, it's a total crap shoot. There is never a pattern there! You may see 10 deer in one morning, and not see another one for days.
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Re: Time of Day?
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#1905763
12/09/10 09:52 PM
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Adraper
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Well, I was at the lease at 12:30 today. Took a quick trip during lunch to spread corn. There lots of deer about. I saw over 18 deer from camp to my hunting area. All eating the green crop we planted beside the road. All were does and yearling except for a 2 1/2 yr old 8 pt that would score about 115". He stood in the middle of the lease road while road my four wheeler to within 50 yds of him. Some of the does allowed me to approach within 20 yds.
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Re: Time of Day?
[Re: rifleman]
#1905898
12/09/10 10:35 PM
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HuntinWeather
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8AMish is when we can bank on seeing activity. Never fails, rain, sleet, shine...8AM deer will be on the fields. I've always called it the 8:05 express because something always happens about 8 am when I am deer hunting or duck hunting
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Re: Time of Day?
[Re: Adraper]
#1905934
12/09/10 10:42 PM
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rifleman
Sparkly Pants
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Well, I was at the lease at 12:30 today. Took a quick trip during lunch to spread corn. There lots of deer about. I saw over 18 deer from camp to my hunting area. All eating the green crop we planted beside the road. All were does and yearling except for a 2 1/2 yr old 8 pt that would score about 115". He stood in the middle of the lease road while road my four wheeler to within 50 yds of him. Some of the does allowed me to approach within 20 yds. you actually hunt around Lufkin?
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Re: Time of Day?
[Re: HuntinWeather]
#1905939
12/09/10 10:44 PM
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rifleman
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8AMish is when we can bank on seeing activity. Never fails, rain, sleet, shine...8AM deer will be on the fields. I've always called it the 8:05 express because something always happens about 8 am when I am deer hunting or duck hunting that was us mule deer hunting as well...if we weren't watching deer at 8am, something just wasn't right. One our fields it's always just a matter of what and how many are going to be out....same thing behind the inlaw's house year-round, 8am, deer are around the feeder, in the plot or bedded next to it under the oaks.
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Re: Time of Day?
[Re: rifleman]
#1905940
12/09/10 10:44 PM
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bassinbiker
Woodsman
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Woodsman
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This year has been a little different. I am seeing the most movement after about 0815 and up until 1000 in the mornings. The evening hunts have been hit and miss -- barely any to zero movement from 2:30 on and at times as soon as I get set up I start seeing deer and they have staid in my area until after dark...makes for a long sit!
Greg US Army 1SG/Retired 
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Re: Time of Day?
[Re: bassinbiker]
#1905977
12/09/10 10:55 PM
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lakefisherman
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Only 2 bucks I seen was just before 7:30 or a little after and was in the morning. Not a single buck in the evening have seen all the does and hogs that time
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Re: Time of Day?
[Re: lakefisherman]
#1906886
12/10/10 02:42 AM
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Drop Tine
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Seen a few does this evening and a boar! Didn't show up till 5:15!
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