After the morning what do you do?

[savagehunter]

Walk in in the dark walk out in the dark. No naps glass as much as I can stand . If it's foul weather I move around and cover ground. Snack all day no lunch time. I don't get enough days off to waste a minute.

[PeninsulaPariah]

I will add this.
If you were a deer, when would you be moving about? During the early/late hours of the day when lots of predators(people) are also out moving about...…….or, during the mid day when a lot of those folks are back at their camp/truck eating lunch?


Mid day can be very good hunting. 

Same Here. I hit it hard mid day. Almost all of the deer I've shot have been between the hours of 10am and 2pm. Lots of walking, lots of glassing. Skip lunch, you hunt better when you're hungry.

[Pete112288]

My blacktail cam has more mid day action with bucks than at night or early morning. My opinion pack food and stay out as much as you can. We wait all year for this, get after it! 

Ditto. I tend to run into quite a bit of activity between 11 and noon and again between 2 and 3. I will sit and eat and watch a clearcut or stand of timber for an hour or so. But I tend to be pretty impatient at sitting. I most of the time will pick my way through some thicker reprod or explore a little during the middle of the day if nothing else seems to be going on.

[deerhunter_98520]

I will add this.
If you were a deer, when would you be moving about? During the early/late hours of the day when lots of predators(people) are also out moving about...…….or, during the mid day when a lot of those folks are back at their camp/truck eating lunch?


Mid day can be very good hunting. 

Same Here. I hit it hard mid day. Almost all of the deer I've shot have been between the hours of 10am and 2pm. Lots of walking, lots of glassing. Skip lunch, you hunt better when you're hungry.

   

[Karl Blanchard]

Glass glass glass.  The deer dont vanish mid day.  They are there, you just gotta find them.  Cant find them at the truck (well some people do ) I've also had luck with the sleep late do great method

[Doublelunger]

In Eastern Oregon We've shot more deer out of their beds in the middle of the day than we have in the mornings or evenings.  Its pretty open country so after the morning hunt we just start glassing under the junipers and always find bucks bedded down.

[greenhead_killer]

I killed my buck at 12:30 this year. I don’t leave the mountains once I’m in. Never know who might bump something at you or you might just catch moving any time of the day

[KFhunter]

I've had too many cats sneak up on me to be putting ear buds in and listening to a podcast or music, last one started hissing at me, wouldn't have heard the hissing if I had music going.  Surrounded by wolves numerous times, heard one sorta quietly woof/bark then brush moving all around me in a circle but they didn't get aggressive that time or the times prior to that.  One of these days they'll try to run me up a tree and they'll find out I don't climb trees. 

No way in heck am I putting music in my ears, the only thing going in my ears is amplifiers so I can hear more! 


For deer depends on the weather but with this really nice weather we're having I'll look for sunning areas in a nice rolling flat on top of a knob or hill.  WT buck will lay up in some brush getting some sun, can't hardly see em till they bust out so I glass every little pocket of brush still hunting, looking for horn.

Pulled out some dandy's doing this, in fact I think most of my deer have been taken around 10am ish.

[Cab]

I've had too many cats sneak up on me to be putting ear buds in and listening to a podcast or music, last one started hissing at me, wouldn't have heard the hissing if I had music going.  Surrounded by wolves numerous times, heard one sorta quietly woof/bark then brush moving all around me in a circle but they didn't get aggressive that time or the times prior to that.  One of these days they'll try to run me up a tree and they'll find out I don't climb trees. 

No way in heck am I putting music in my ears, the only thing going in my ears is amplifiers so I can hear more! 


For deer depends on the weather but with this really nice weather we're having I'll look for sunning areas in a nice rolling flat on top of a knob or hill.  WT buck will lay up in some brush getting some sun, can't hardly see em till they bust out so I glass every little pocket of brush still hunting, looking for horn.

Pulled out some dandy's doing this, in fact I think most of my deer have been taken around 10am ish.

Grew up in Maine so never had to deal with any of that in terms of predators but you make a great point! sounds like a lot of guys have success in the middle of the day which is great to hear and keeps me motivated to keep sitting. I'm a fan of sitting in an area in the morning then walking a ridge then glassing pockets or openings. This new area I'm trying should have enough country for me to glass all day no problem.

[meatwhack]

Drink a half rack and then drive around with the gun loaded hoping to catch something in the road.

[WapitiTalk1]

Drink a half rack and then drive around with the gun loaded hoping to catch something in the road.

Edit:  "With the rifle hanging out the window"... 

[grundy53]

I've killed most of my bucks and a fair amount of my bulls in the middle of the day.

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[Rainier10]

I've killed most of my bucks and a fair amount of my bulls in the middle of the day.

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Maybe I will sleep in this weekend.

[Karl Blanchard]

I've killed most of my bucks and a fair amount of my bulls in the middle of the day.

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Maybe I will sleep in this weekend.

sleep late do great 

[wolfbait]

Its not the daylight thats hard, its sitting out under a tree for 13, 14 hours waiting for light to come back thats hard.