How late do you stay on stand in the evening?

[duckriver]

When do you climb down? Total darkness? A little early to hunt your way back to the truck?

 

[leader]

Re: How late do you stay on standing the evening?

I hunt til I can't see in stand any longer


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[DEER REPELLANT]

Re: How late do you stay on standing the evening?

I stay until i can barely see the trees in front of me. If it is to dark and cant get a shot off then its time to go. Also if The Walking Dead is coming on, then i leave a little earlier.

 

[Vermin93]

30 min after official sunset time.

 

[280longshot]

I generally hunt fields in the evening and if I don't I like to ease my way out before dark to catch anything out in the fields.

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[catman529]

Depends on the day. Sometimes I climb down with 15 minutes of light to check fields on the way out. Sometimes I sit till darkness because there's no field worth checking or there are deer close by. Yesterday evening I had a coon and 2 or 3 does very close right at end of shooting light, so I waited a bit to climb down.


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[duckriver]

One thing I have noticed is if I wait until it is almost pitch black it doesn't seem to spook them and they stay in the field and not pay as much attention to me the next evening

 

[scn]

Re: How late do you stay on standing the evening?

I stay until i can barely see the trees in front of me. If it is to dark and cant get a shot off then its time to go. Also if The Walking Dead is coming on, then i leave a little earlier.

Legal shooting hours are one half hour after official sunset, not until you can't get a shot off.

 

[f1maxis]

30 min after official sunset time.

This ^^^

 

[DEER REPELLANT]

Re: How late do you stay on standing the evening?

I stay until i can barely see the trees in front of me. If it is to dark and cant get a shot off then its time to go. Also if The Walking Dead is coming on, then i leave a little earlier.

Legal shooting hours are one half hour after official sunset, not until you can't get a shot off.

Yea I know, didnt mean like it sounds. I am far sites in one eye and near sited in another. That being said my time varies from others, however I hunt by the rules. Glad you called me out to keep confusion down.

 

[TN Larry]

I sit until the end of shooting light. I've killed a few good bucks in the last few mins before dark.

 

[scn]

Re: How late do you stay on standing the evening?

I stay until i can barely see the trees in front of me. If it is to dark and cant get a shot off then its time to go. Also if The Walking Dead is coming on, then i leave a little earlier.

Legal shooting hours are one half hour after official sunset, not until you can't get a shot off.

Yea I know, didnt mean like it sounds. I am far sites in one eye and near sited in another. That being said my time varies from others, however I hunt by the rules. Glad you called me out to keep confusion down.

I didn't post to "call you out". I used your post to try to get across the concept that it isn't legal to hunt until "the end of shooting light" or until you can't see. There is a legal time to the minute.

There are some overcast days where that legal time may be after the time you can't really see well in the woods. There are others where you can see to shoot, particularly with good optics, well after legal shooting time.

The legal answer to this is one half hour after official sunset for the place you are hunting.

 

[scn]

I sit until the end of shooting light. I've killed a few good bucks in the last few mins before dark.

Again, the end of shooting light and legal shooting times can vary a great deal, particularly hunting field edges with good optics.

There is a legal time to the minute.

 

[TN Larry]

I sit until the end of shooting light. I've killed a few good bucks in the last few mins before dark.

Again, the end of shooting light and legal shooting times can vary a great deal, particularly hunting field edges with good optics.

There is a legal time to the minute.

I meant legal shooting light. I always hunt woods and too dark to shoot ie where I can see with just my eyes and legal shooting light are about the same time. Fields are different though.

 

[Vermin93]

scn, are we allowed to use the weather forecast for our specific hunting area or do we have to use the sunrise/sunset charts in the hunting guide?

For example, the chart for Nashville in the hunting guide shows sunset today at 1639. However, the weather app that I use shows sunset at 1636 for the city closest to my lease.

I always use the weather report for my local area.

 

[JeepKuntry]

Usually I climb down 10-15 minutes before it's dark. When I got to the truck yesterday evening, it was almost dark. I adhere to the 30 minutes after sunset rule. Also, there are many evenings that towards the end of my sit I'm no longer in the mood to track at night and drag for an hour or better.

 

[scn]

scn, are we allowed to use the weather forecast for our specific hunting area or do we have to use the sunrise/sunset charts in the hunting guide?

For example, the chart for Nashville in the hunting guide shows sunset today at 1639. However, the weather app that I use shows sunset at 1636 for the city closest to my lease.

I always use the weather report for my local area.

I use the weather app rather than trying to extrapolate from the TWRA charts.

 

[UTGrad]

I hunt till end of LEGAL shooting light over fields but sometimes in the woods I might call it quits 20 minutes after sunset due to lack of light. If I cant make an ethical shot I'm done.

 

[Mudbone]

I'm usually bow hunting so I can't see my pins most of the time when there is legal light left. I almost never hunt fields.

 

[godores]

Call me uncommitted, but I don't like to track deer in the dark. I usually get down at sunset unless I hear or see something that I want to wait out. I'm more of a morning hunter anyway.

 

[wsm]

Most of the time I hunt till dark or a little before.

 

[Wobblyshot1]

I hunt mostly in the woods and with open iron sights. By official sunset I usually can't see my sights so I'm usually done by then.

 

[Pic IN the Casa]

Call me uncommitted, but I don't like to track deer in the dark. I usually get down at sunset unless I hear or see something that I want to wait out. I'm more of a morning hunter anyway.

I know the feeling. Sometimes, just after the sun sets and we are the cusps of darkness, I think to myself "I sure hope I don't see a big buck because then I'll have to shoot it and its going to suck"

Yep to both.
I am fortunate to hunt areas where I am a 1/4 mile max from a logging road or my vehicle. I stay put until it is completely dark.