What is the best time of day to hunt white tail dear?

Answer 1

Well Bree,

Loks like your answers have run the gambit. I have hunted deer since I was 12 and let's just say that was a really, really, really long time ago.

I like to think of the hunting day in 3 parts. First is the predawn and early morning. Especially on days when the prior night was dry and moonlit. They seem to feed most of the night, especially during hunting season, ad then return to one of their bedding spots to sleep it off or hide and often those early hours are a good time to catch them heading that way.

The mid day hunt from about 11:00 to 2:00 can also be very productive, especially if you are hunting public land or land where there are lots of hunters to move the deer around when their lazy butts get out of the stand to go to the car or shack for lunch and a nap. This movement usually gets deer moving when they normally would be bedded down. The last 3 years I have gotten 3 deer by sitting in my stand as everyone else gets down. Then I am back out of the woods by the time they head back and I have my deer.

Lastly the predusk and dusk are also productive, although I personally have found this time less productive as they all seem to have gotten through the day and wait until dark to start moving around when they feel safe. Also, it is harder to identify your deer and make a clean shot as it gets dark, which can lead to trying to track a deer after dark. Lost game or the deer being tore up by coyote in many areas if not found right away. I tend to not shoot ever after legal sunset even though in my state you are allowed to shoot up to 1/2 hour after sunset.

I don't know if that helped at all, but those are what I feel are the most productive times and my reasons.

Answer 2

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I did a little internet-fu on your behalf. As you are not a Canadian citizen, and not a Canadian Resident (I assume you are only in Canada for a year or less in some sort of exchange program.) Canadian Citizens and Canadian Residents are the ones that must go through CORE. You don't have to go through CORE...but...you have to be accompanied by a guide, and that is expensive, probably $500 per day. In addition, as a CORE hunter or with a guide, you pay $180 for a hunting fee, then a species fee based on what you want to hunt. White tail deer = $125, Black Bear = $180, Elk = $250, Moose = $250, Grizzly Bear = $1000 etc etc. Prices in Canadian Dollars. your friend's dad cannot be a guide. A guide must be an apprentice guide first, but more imporantly, a guide must have insurance in case of an accident.

Answer 3

the best time that i have found to hunt white tail dear, is in the evening, usually in or near a club or lounge

Answer 4

90% of my kills have come right around 9:30 am. I don't know what it is about that time but it just seems to work for me. I know most deer taken are in the early morning or just before or at sunset. Don't discount lunch time when hunters are leaving the woods and spooking deer up as they go. You just never know what you might see. That is why I like to sit from well before sun up till after sun down.

Answer 5

In the morning or in the evening. If you go of a morning you need to be out there an hour before daylight to really reap benefits. for evening about 2 hours before dusk. Works for me.

Answer 6

All day during the rut. But 6 a.m. till 9 a.m.. Pick up the November Field and Stream, there is a big article on this in there.

Answer 7

In the morning right as daylight, that when the deer are up feeding..... then about an hour before dusk....

Answer 8

In order for you to be in the right place at the right time, you have to be there at all times.*

Answer 9

in the first 3 hours of daylight. Your next best time is the last 3 hours of daylight. Mid-day is the least

Answer 10

Early morning and right before dark