Entering the woods-what time

[Rack Daniels]

I'm sure this will fall on def ears ...but as someone who some how managed to survive a 20+ foot fall out of climber please change your mind.

I remember the story… Wasn’t too long after I joined the forum IIRC.
Glad you’re alive and able to keep hunting with us! Appreciate the concern…

 

[Rack Daniels]

Nah, tuck and roll bro.

Correct…. Bro

 

[Nick87]

Correct…. Bro

Awesome.

 

[caddiscrazy]

I teach hunter ed a couple times a year and one of my dedicated sessions is in tree stand safety. If you fall out of a stand, there are worse fates than death…. Living the rest of your life drinking jello through a straw and getting your diaper changed haha. I do quite a bit of saddle hunting and I still am cautious about checking ropes and pulleys. You never know when a weld might break on a platform either. They don’t make stuff like they used too

 

[WVmike]

Depends on where I'm hunting like others have said. If I'm familiar with the area, I'll go in before light to be set for that 30 minutes before light shooting time. If I'm not familiar, I may drive to where I need to then head in right at daylight. Most of the hunting I do is on my farm so we're usually set before daylight.

 

[Stocker]

I’m always in early. That being said last year I sat in the rain what seemed like the whole season. One morning it was pouring and I just had enough, I hung around the house until it quit about 9, I wasn’t in the stand 15 minutes and shot a good buck. I don’t recommend that strategy, but I think it just proves there’s no perfect answer. There’s guys like me that do “everything right” and never kill huge bucks and then there’s guys that waddle out in overalls, puffing cigarettes, eating snacks sitting on a log with a rifle they haven’t sighted in for years and they kill a giant.

 

[Treeshark]

I hung around the house until it quit about 9, I wasn’t in the stand 15 minutes and shot a good buck.

My all time favorite whitetail hunting scenario is to be sitting a good scrape right after a steady rain lets up.

 

[Mallardsx2]

I like to be in the stand or on stand only 10 minutes before light.

Many reasons for this but primarily I just don’t want my scent smoking everything out prior to shooting time.