So let me ask you guys why you dont hunt mornings in the late season? Is it just something you guys have always heard? From Experiences? The type of hunting area? Really the only reason to not hunt mornings is that you are only food sources and going in to those spots during the mornings would bump those deer. I completely get that point. But based on my late season experiences the bucks, just like late season, are the last ones to move through. Like I said in my other post, I shot my deer last thursday at 8:50 am after roughly 20 does had already moved through and I was getting to the point of getting out of the stand. The same thing happened two saturdays ago. I had watched a pile of does move through and heard a gun shot that was not supposed to be there and wanted to go investigate. While it was too early to be getting down, I was curious and as I had stood up and turned around, here was a mature buck coming down the fence too me.
Late season mornings have proved to more effective for us, especially at seeing and shooting mature deer. Now for numbers, the nights are unparalleled. Perhaps its just the area we are hunting but the two encounters I talked about above happened on different farms.