Morning or Evening

[RavensdaleYoungBuck]

I know everyone has their stories and people get an animal at all times of the day, but I was wondering do y'all think it's better to hunt elk in the morning or the evening? This is my second year hunting and I have been out mostly during the evening.

[gotcha]

Killed most of mine between 10 and 2.

[334OKH]

Mine have all been between 930 or 10 and noon. Except this year and that was about 5pm.  I have never been too eager to get out before first light. I'm not saying it's not worth it. just stating what has worked for me.

[WSU]

Morning for me. 

[npaull]

As much as I hate to get up early, I've always found morning better than any other time. Except I gotta say I've shot a fair number of deer around 11AM.

[pashok23]

Morning for me.

[WSU]

I should say that by morning I mean daylight.  If that means hitting the woods at 3 or 4 a.m. to be where the elk are at daylight, so be it.  They are most consistently out and about right at daylight.

[wall of wood camp]

Mine have been about fifty fifty although I prefer the morning kills that way you have all day to get them packed out. I hate feeling rushed to get them field dressed and quartered racing the clock of darkness. If I could only hunt morning or evening I would have to pick morning

[Bean Counter]

my crew always seem to get them in the evening, but during bugling my focus has always been mornings. They bugle like crazy through sunrise.

[Elknut1]

For us, Morning by a mile, that is for elk especially during our archery hunts.

  ElkNut1

[kentrek]

For us, Morning by a mile, that is for elk especially during our archery hunts.

  ElkNut1

  

[Nice Racks]

I've hunted elk for three years now and have killed two. Last year was a cow in the late evening and this year was a bull at 8 am. I agree that shooting one in the morning is a heck of a lot easier for the recovery and pack out.

[coachcw]

morning is good . but when bulls have cows you can get them away from there ladies 9-11 am . in the evening you can catch elk moving on to or grazing the open slopes its a good time if your waiting for them but can be tough to close the gap before dark . plus tracking wounded or arrowed elk at night can be tough. never let on sit over night everyone ive seen was spoiled .

[4fletch]

Overnight at 0 degrees they will spoil

[Eli346]

 I've killed all of my elk in the morning. I like the extra time to pack them out and take care of the meat. I've never really spotted an elk on an evening hunt that I could have put down and felt good about finding him and getting him out in time to do him justice.