When Do You Get In & Out of Your Blind/Stand

I thought about this last week and BltMedic got me thinking about it again with his post.

I get in 30 minutes before first light and stay until 10-10:30, afternoon 3:45 until I can sneak out.
So when do you show up?

I usually get in stand about 45min to an hour before 1st light and leave about 10:30 and in the afternoon usually around 3-3:30 and stay until after dark!!! Sometimes I'll stay all day!!!

Pretty much the same, but if able (meaning nothing waiting on me to finish hunting ), I'll try to stay until 11:00. I've busted a bunch of deer still on their feet by walking out at 10:30, and I've seen good buck movement in midday. My best buck was shot at 1:30pm.

I make sure I have the road fed with tailgate feeder and I am in the blind about 15 minutes before good daylight. I will stay till I have gone 30 minutes or so without seeing any deer depending on the rut and weather. In the afternoons, early in the season about 4:15-4:30 and when the rut gets closer I will get in around 4. If it is a good cloudy cold day with some drizzle I will hunt longer.

Pretty much the same. An hour before sunrise puts me in the stand about 30 minutes before first light. And I try to be in the stand for evening hunts no later than 3pm.

My usual time to leave in the morning is 10am, but I will stay longer when the conditions are right, such as cloudy, cold days with little or no wind.

For evening hunts, I never stay beyond the time when I cannot see safely with the naked eye. In other words, i don't use my scope to make out any details that I would not be able to see with a scope in normal light. Not only do I consider this unsafe, but feel it increases the chance of making harvest mistakes. This might include missing a brow tine on a spike, or mistaking a nubbing buck as a doe.

30 min before sunlight and leave about 9:30. Afternoon is about 3:30 and i leave when my spotlight needs to recharge.

Almost ditto for me as well, if I continue to see movement in the am, (sometimes happens) I will stay longer.

similar to others. I try to get into the stand 30 or so minutes before legal shooting time and stay until 9:30 to 10. A lot of that depends on the kids and how ancy they are getting. In the afternoon, I like to be in the stand a little after 4PM and start packing up at sunset.

i go ta my GPS. it got an ap for best times for hunting & fishing & good times for hunting & fishing. strickly go bye it 30min before & 30min after.

But what if nature calls?

I have a gallon jug and a 5 gallon bucket (works great with those plastic shopping bags) LOL. Plus I get up earlyyyy so the coffee can do it's "thang"

i got call waiting

Numero uno:



(Empty, of course.)



Numero dos: Hunt over.

depends some times i put it on hold

I shot a nice buck one morning after climbing down from my ladder stand to take a squat. The buck came walking through with a doe and fell just a few feet away from where I had squatted no more than 20 minutes earlier.

When ya gotta go, ya gotta go.

No fricken way CR!!! You been in my blind? LOL Same damn one in my blind, no kidding Love me some cran-grape!!

Morning - about 6:10 till dark 30 most all the time
if i dont stay all day i get out about 10-30 and go back around 2-2:30

I try to be in the stand by 5am (last Saturday was 6 before time change) and try to stay till after dark. I may leave by 10:30 depending on movement, and then come back around 1. I've seen lots of deer up and moving at 2-2:30 previous years, while driving in so I had to adjust.

Numero uno: hang er out the window. Doesn't seem to bother the deer too much at all.
dos: Ive got a shovel and dig me a hole.

One hour and 15 minutes before sunrise and stay until 9/9:30 ish for mornings...

Two hours before sunset until dark thirty for evenings...

Never tried a high noonish hunt but some folks swear by 12 to 2ish...espicially on the cold, overcast days. Might try one this season.

1/2 hour before till 1/2 hour after light . When I get off work till dark. 1/2 hour before light till 15 minutes after I'm supposed to be at work. Last year my boss got mad as hell when I never came back from lunch

I get in an hour before sunrise and stay until 10-1030. In the evenings I try and get in by 1530 and stay until I dark thirty. Depending on weather I may sit all day. Misty, overcast days with steady wind and it's a camp out.

An hour or so before daybreak and 2-3 hours before dusk.

Is that duct tape for when #2 calls Payne

Well I sure hope he aint trying to get it in that jug!

stx you of all people should know you can fix anything with duct tape, baling wire and/or wd-40

Just wrap it around you really tight and hold it in

6:00am till 9:00 Gotta get back to the B&B before they put breakfast up !!!

3:00 till dark

As far as the Call of nature, I pee in a plastic hiking bottle.

After gastric Sleeve surgery I pee ALLOT and OFTEN!! I'm thinking about wearing an adult Depend, they work REALLY good.

Sucks getting old.

30 minutes before legal light until noon.

2:30 or 3:00 until legal light has passed.

This year I never took the two to three hour break one day in January. Pre-dawn to post-dusk. Glad I had a good book with me.

In the mornings it is 30 to 45 minutes before legal shooting time. Afternoon and evenings, depends on what has been happening in the last few days.

Never early enough for the morning hunt. Not a morning person.

I like 30 min prior to daylight and slip out varies on conditions. Always hunt mid day during rut and full moon pattern. Afternoons if I haven't stayed all day, I'm in by 3:30 out after dark. If nature calls, I hang up on her, unless she's relentless, then a fellas gotta do...what a fellas gotta do..... Indian style

You cross your legs when you go?

30 min prior to first light until 9-9:30 then an hour and a half before sunset until it's too dark to see where my pins are aimed.

You must not be from round here..

First light and around 4 till dark will hunt 12-2 when conditions are right seen to many deer during that time period.

In the stand at 5am and usually out around 10am or when I get hungry. Back in stand around 2-3 and stay till dark. I'm the camp cook for dinner, so I have to get back and start cooking, my dad cover breakfast and another member cover lunch.

if I am not seeing anything in the morning & evening, I try midday.