Daylight?
- Thread starter Mr. Hawk
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Breaking daylight around 5:30 near Lebanon, you can see around then just not far depending on if it's clear or cloudy.
TonyB
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653 am is sunrise time for tomorrow per my app. That means im up at 5 in the woods and up the tree by 6 or 615. I try to get in the tree early enough to check bow clearances, foam the sweat off from packing in and have at least 30 to 40 minutes of quiet before true sunrise. Its 5 for me to get a bite have a couple cups of coffee and take browns to the super bowl 
I'm usually in the stand about 5:50-5:55 cst. This morning I didn't think it was ever going to get daylight.
Good grief it's legal shooting time at 7:15 here is east Tn. I don't walk out the door till 6:30 and across the street 
Everytime I hunt with @knightrider in east TN I always feel like I get to sleep in being on est lol.Good grief it's legal shooting time at 7:15 here is east Tn. I don't walk out the door till 6:30 and across the street
Still hasn't.
BSK
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I don't know how others calculate it, by I find I can first see around me (back in the woods), 45 minutes before legal sunrise on a clear morning, but only 30 minutes before legal sunrise on a cloudy morning.
Wrangler95
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I'm always up in my stand and it's pitch dark still!!
killingtime 41
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The older I get the harder it is to be in the stand when it's pitch black. Don't know why but it's seems to always be grey sky's by the time I make it.
I used to go in well before daylight. Usually made a bunch of noise bumping branches, etc. Now I go in when it is at least light enough to avoid branches and snags and not need a light. I've eased up on many a deer this way, and although it is too dark to tell what they are, I can slow my roll and wait until they leave before proceeding. On the flip side, I've bumped alot of deer fumbling around in the dark because of a noisy approach. Oh, and did I mention I blow all the leaves off the paths to my stands (over 1/2 mile worth) so unless they wind me, I can get in pretty quietly. But to answer your question, I usually get to my stand 15 minutes before legal shooting light.
Check the twra app, it gives sunrise and sunset for your location. I am usually in my stands 45 minutes to an hour before sunrise.
I rarely go in before daylight anymore. I never do while bow hunting. It's coldest right before dawn, and bowhunters literally need to be over top of the deer, so how does that play for thermals? It saturates the ground and vegetation everywhere you walked and under your stand. Then when the sun crests the horizon and begins pushing a breeze, all that pooled up stink gets blown about.
You ever find yourself sitting statue still on stand, zero wind, can't hardly see yet, but have deer blowing at you from areas nowhere near your access trail? It's especially bad in hill country because the thermal downdraft flows down the drainages like water and converge in hollow bottom drain, the same path and time bucks take on their way from night feeding to day bedding.
Rifle season is different. I often set up for 100yd+ shots so I can mostly set up in non deer areas, shooting into deer areas. My stink doesn't matter because there aren't any deer to whiff it. Completely different set of circumstances with firearms and bows.
You ever find yourself sitting statue still on stand, zero wind, can't hardly see yet, but have deer blowing at you from areas nowhere near your access trail? It's especially bad in hill country because the thermal downdraft flows down the drainages like water and converge in hollow bottom drain, the same path and time bucks take on their way from night feeding to day bedding.
Rifle season is different. I often set up for 100yd+ shots so I can mostly set up in non deer areas, shooting into deer areas. My stink doesn't matter because there aren't any deer to whiff it. Completely different set of circumstances with firearms and bows.
I like to be settled in and "ready to shoot" 30 minutes before legal shooting time.
Same.
Anymore I try to ease into my areas as it's just breaking light enough to see. I occasionally get invited to hunt with a buddy who will go in and be situated an hour before light. His invite, so I play by his rules when I go.
But, I'd rather add that extra hour onto the end of my morning hunt with actual shooting light.
Same here. You know what time it's legal to shoot, so base everything off that. Not sure why some folks make everything so complicated.
This for me also. Just find out sunrise, figure being settled in approximately 1 hour before that.
UTGrad
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To keep it easy for me, I like to be in the stand 1 hour before sunrise. That means I will be in the stand 30 minutes before legal light.
megalomaniac
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Sunrise is 6:55 in Nashville. You can legally shoot at 6:25. I'd be in the stand around 6:24 or so.
Boll Weevil
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Fall back Nov5 so the deer will sleep in…wait…I need to get up an hour earlier…or later or…dangit. A year from now we ain't gotta worry'bout it.
