What time will you be in your stand / blind / spot on opening morning?

[burmjohn]

What time will you be in your stand / blind / spot on opening morning of gun season?

 

Looks like civil twilight is at 6:16 am and sunrise is at 6:46 am.

 

 

[blackradio]

I'm planning on sitting down at 5:30

[First-light]

I'll be at my spot at 6:00. I go the furthest so I settle in and 4 other hunters hit my woods setting up. They usually push deer down to me that's why I like to get in early. Hopefully they hang around for legal shooting time.

[Merlot]

In 9h, I like to be in my ground blind about 45 minutes before legal shooting begins.

[Catskill Hunter]

Takes me about an hour to hike up the mountain and get set up with my climber, ugh,  I will leave camp around 4:45 am.....ugh again ....

[silent death]

6am in my spot....

[Yotehntr]

6am I'll be sitting down

[Hunter1]

I'll be in my blind at 5:30 waiting for surrounding hunters to push deer when they get in Most will walk in when it's light .

[accman]

The earlier the better, anything to try to give yourself an edge.  Leave at 5:00, there by 5:15, and it takes some time to cover the quad, set up a drag line, place a couple of scent canisters by the no-plow areas, walk back as quiet as possible, and try to do this with as little to no flashlight as possible.  I've raked out a path to make it as quiet as possible, but I guarantee my fat @#( will find enough twigs and branches to step on.  Takes about 10 minutes just to set up everything inside the stand opening all the windows, set up the binocs, grunt calls, bleats, rattle bag, and everything else I don't need. I'll say a couple of decats of the rosary just to pass time in the dark and hope he's on my side this year.  He was last year right after I said one, so hope he follows suit. It's what we wait over 364 days for, and wouldn't miss it for the world. And, having my son hunt about 400 yards away, doubles the pleasure.

[BizCT]

Opening day I'll be in my spot about 1hour before sunrise. After opening day, I usually go with 45 minutes before sunrise.

[burmjohn]

The earlier the better, anything to try to give yourself an edge.  Leave at 5:00, there by 5:15, and it takes some time to cover the quad, set up a drag line, place a couple of scent canisters by the no-plow areas, walk back as quiet as possible, and try to do this with as little to no flashlight as possible.  I've raked out a path to make it as quiet as possible, but I guarantee my fat @#( will find enough twigs and branches to step on.  Takes about 10 minutes just to set up everything inside the stand opening all the windows, set up the binocs, grunt calls, bleats, rattle bag, and everything else I don't need. I'll say a couple of decats of the rosary just to pass time in the dark and hope he's on my side this year.  He was last year right after I said one, so hope he follows suit. It's what we wait over 364 days for, and wouldn't miss it for the world. And, having my son hunt about 400 yards away, doubles the pleasure.

 

Windows?  have pics of this stand?

[GreeneHunter]

6am on my spot (hopefully)

[Lever action]

I like to be in stand an hour before daylight.

[Nomad]

Sunrise where I hunt is 7 05. Maybe 6 20 ish. I'm on private ground the stand I'm using is at the corner of a thicket 900 feet in from the road. No one is pushing deer towards me unless it's out of the front yards across

I don't have to beat anybody in,or let the woods quite down because I don't go in ' em more then a few yards.

I'll park walk in a clover field to a drainage ditch follow that for 100 yards climb up ladder sit down the end. 5 minutes from parking on stand.

The stand sits on edge of woods along drainage ditch with 30 foot wide mowed path along ditch ,and 100 yard wide mowed other side of thicket.

[Bowhunter442]

we will be in ny 5:30 and my dad and uncles come after and spook the deer up to us. hopefullt they stick around until leagal shooting time

 

[Pygmy]

Miranda Lambert is meeting me in my fully carpeted, insulated box blind about about 9:00 PM the night before opening day..

 

When is legal shooting time ?   Not that I CARE....

[Five Seasons]

In the stand by 6. Flame on but the DEC times for legal shooting are whack. Good moonlight or snow on the ground and you can see just fine.

Some of you guys get a little carried away with scent attractants I think. I've seen it scare away more doe than attack bucks and I'd rather have real doe bait anyday.

Edited November 12, 2013 by Belo

[bkln]

Normally one hour before legal light... leave some time to hang the smellies and spray some trees....  

[cdmckane]

I'll sleep in my built blind Friday night.  It's got all the comforts of home...cot, coffee maker, fold down shooting windows, electric heater.  I won't want to chance busting them out on my way in.  I'll go up after dinner Friday and settle in for the night.

[BizCT]

In the stand by 6. Flame on but the DEC times for legal shooting are whack. Good moonlight or snow on the ground and you can see just fine. Some of you guys get a little carried away with scent attractants I think. I've seen it scare away more doe than attack bucks and I'd rather have real doe bait anyday.

 

+1. Never used a scent/attractant, never will. Nothing more real than au naturale.

[WNYBuckHunter]

Ill be getting in around 6. I actually would have a bit of light so i can see any deer that might be in the field. Ill be sitting in the same stand as i did both mornings this past weekend. The deer po in and out of the corn on bith sides, and the creek bed below me is a major escape route from the swamp, where most of the guys go. I have had bucks use it every opening day I have sat there.

[wooly]

I'll be out there before Pygmy  wakes up from his dream and finds a Kleenex,lol

No later than 6am.

[BizCT]

Miranda Lambert is meeting me in my fully carpeted, insulated box blind about about 9:00 PM the night before opening day..

 

When is legal shooting time ?   Not that I CARE....

 

Who is Miranda Lambert?

[papabear]

I am going to a new spot so I don't know when I'll be there

[bigpaul]

I'll sleep in my built blind Friday night.  It's got all the comforts of home...cot, coffee maker, fold down shooting windows, electric heater.  I won't want to chance busting them out on my way in.  I'll go up after dinner Friday and settle in for the night.

Really?  Please foward the plans for that blind!