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[YFKI1983]

Can anyone who has been out already or gets up early in general tell me when first light is. I never know how early to be in stand my first sit of the year.

 

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[Swamp_bucks]

Sunrise is around 610 ish so I would be on stand no later than 530 but I like being on stand early

[steve863]

3 hours ago, Swamp_bucks said:

Sunrise is around 610 ish so I would be on stand no later than 530 but I like being on stand early

Exactly where is sunrise at 6:10 right now?  Sunrise is at 6:47 in NYC today so it's even later the further west you go in New York state. 

[UpStateRedNeck]

First light at 620

[YFKI1983]

Exactly where is sunrise at 6:10 right now?  Sunrise is at 6:47 in NYC today so it's even later the further west you go in New York state. 

I'm assuming he meant first light.

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[Robhuntandfish]

download the weather underground app. - I think thats what upstate took a pic of.  It will show that first and last light and it also gives you the hourly wind direction which is key! 

[loworange88]

https://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/111994.html

Here you go!  No guessing.  Remember the rules just changed to allow 30 minutes before and 30 minutes after the times listed on that chart.

Edited September 27, 2021 by loworange88

[YFKI1983]

download the weather underground app. - I think thats what upstate took a pic of.  It will show that first and last light and it also gives you the hourly wind direction which is key! 

Good idea. My weather app usually tells me the opposite of what the real weather is anyway. I cant tell you how many times it shows sunny while I'm getting rained on in a treestand

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[Robhuntandfish]

7 minutes ago, YFKI1983 said:

Good idea. My weather app usually tells me the opposite of what the real weather is anyway. I cant tell you how many times it shows sunny while I'm getting rained on in a treestand

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i use it all the time to plan on where i am going to hunt.  Huntstand is also great - it will show where your scent will be going based on the wind direction

Edited September 27, 2021 by Robhuntandfish

[phade]

Rule of thumb is to be in stand at least one hour before legal sunrise. Esp now with the officially legal thirty min prior.

Not a huge fan of only being in stand 5-10 min before you can shoot. Leads to rushing, sweating, and mistakes IMO. Chasing daylight is bad.

Edited September 27, 2021 by phade

[GreeneHunter]

20 minutes ago, phade said:

Rule of thumb is to be in stand at least one hour before legal sunrise.

 

I agree ..... being that early lets the woods settle down ! Nothing better than being on post and watching the woods slowly wake up and go from black to grey to daylight !

[Swamp_bucks]

4 hours ago, steve863 said:

Exactly where is sunrise at 6:10 right now?  Sunrise is at 6:47 in NYC today so it's even later the further west you go in New York state. 

First light is what I meant. 

[Hock3y24]

I’m in my stand about 1 hour before official sunrise. Can easily shoot 25-30 minutes before sunrise in woods, field edge is a whole other story. So I’d say first light is about 40 mins before sunrise time in your zone.

[crappyice]

Chasing daylight is bad.

Haha..we use the expression getting chased by the sun if/when we oversleep


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[Nomad]

I like to walk in as I can just start to see, as I walk in along farm fields and glass them as I go . Leads to far less blowing them out of the fields and allows me to stop , and set up short or change to a different stand altogether.
 

If I’m going with someone who,likes to be in while it’s dark ,I’ll go so I’m up maybe ten minutes in the dark .

Friday shooting light is 6:40 AM so I’ll be at the stand close to  6:40 . Maybe 6:30 as I think the ratchet  strap is still loose and the strap for my safety line isn’t in place yet either , not sure if there’s a haul line ….

[DirtTime]

52 minutes ago, Nomad said:

I like to walk in as I can just start to see, as I walk in along farm fields and glass them as I go . Leads to far less blowing them out of the fields and allows me to stop , and set up short or change to a different stand altogether.
 

If I’m going with someone who,likes to be in while it’s dark ,I’ll go so I’m up maybe ten minutes in the dark .

Friday shooting light is 6:40 AM so I’ll be at the stand close to  6:40 . Maybe 6:30 as I think the ratchet  strap is still loose and the strap for my safety line isn’t in place yet either , not sure if there’s a haul line ….

I started doing sort of the same thing the past couple years after reading a few guys on here do this. I'm still in and set up a wee bit before the sky starts to brighten and let everything calm down. Doing this last year I saw more deer then in a lot of years prior and that helped spark me to be out there more days then I have ever hunted before in my life. 

[Einsamer Krieger]

1/2 hour before sunrise, in your stand and ready to wait.  Check the schedule for sunrise and sunset.

[grampy]

2 hours ago, Nomad said:

I like to walk in as I can just start to see, as I walk in along farm fields and glass them as I go . Leads to far less blowing them out of the fields and allows me to stop , and set up short or change to a different stand altogether.
 

If I’m going with someone who,likes to be in while it’s dark ,I’ll go so I’m up maybe ten minutes in the dark .

Friday shooting light is 6:40 AM so I’ll be at the stand close to  6:40 . Maybe 6:30 as I think the ratchet  strap is still loose and the strap for my safety line isn’t in place yet either , not sure if there’s a haul line ….

This is me. And after very many years of being in my stand way before light, I've found this to be a much better way. 

"Most" times, I'll just slip along VERY slow, just as it's getting light enough to see. Almost like still hunting, but slightly faster. I've found I bump far less deer, and have even gotten shot opportunities I would not have had, had I already been sitting in my stand.

Of course, there are certain days like the opening of firearm season, I want to be in, and settled long before first light. 

[wolc123]

I noticed while hunting a couple mornings and most afternoons of the early antlerless season this year, that the full half hour early was useful, as far as seeing details thru a decent scope.

Only 20 minutes was useful after sunset (as posted for the area on the weather channels).   The last legal 10 minutes was too dark to see anything thru the scope.   Maybe, in an open field, with a full moon, that last 10 minutes will be safe.