Generally speaking, your odds of taking an older buck are better on that "first sit" at nearly all stand locations, no matter what time of the rut. For that reason, I seldom hunt the exact same spot 2 consecutive days, but I do often hunt within a hundred yards of it several day in a row, especially during the rut.
When you're hunting a specific mature deer OUTSIDE the rut, everything you do becomes more critical, and you can quickly "wear out" a particular stand site by hunting it 2 days in a row. Of course, some stands can be hunted anytime with little concern of this, but most cannot. All these issues are generally even more critical for archery hunting.
During the rut, you can often get away hunting a particular stand day after day overlooking a travel corridor, as any buck you see may be alone, and may not be coming thru that corridor but once every few days. However, if there are more deer, alerting any of them can shift the subsequent deer's travel around you rather than by you. For this reason I often move stand locations daily about 100 yards, even though I might be watching the same travel corridor each day. Most of "my" moving is typically done around 1PM or under the cover of darkness.
In 2014, I took what appeared to be a 6 1/2-yr-old buck. I hunted the same tree several consecutive days, in part because the first day he came by, he caught me off-guard and I wasn't able to take a very easy shot he presented. But he didn't see me, and never knew I was there. I was seeing a few other bucks (but rarely a doe), even passed up a 120-class 3 1/2-yr-old at 10 yards. But never once spooked any of them, and didn't feel they were picking up on my comings and goings. So I kept hunting that same tree, as for many consecutive days, the wind was favorable. About 10 days later, the big one came back thru, and I killed him, a 150-class fully mature Tennessee buck, later aged at 6 1/2.
