When to enter/exit the stand?

[lovemylegacy]

I’ve had 2 evening hunts and 1 morning hunt this season. I would be in the stand by 4:30pm or by 5:00am. I wouldn’t have any action until right at dark then I would be covered up in deer, would you leave the stand before they show up when you know it will be too late or wait until after dark? Both times I was surrounded by deer and spooked them as I as leaving after dark. As far as the morning hunt, I think I spooked them again getting to the stand. At this point I think I need to wait until it gets cooler. This is my first archery season and am not used to the early hot season.

When do you exit the stand in the evening and show up in the morning in the early part of the season?

thanks!

Wherever they are coming from or going to, that's where you need to be sitting. If you are hunting a feeder, even if you leave early, they will see you, they are probably staged up within sight of the feeder waiting on dark.

[Drycreek3189]

Get to the stand an hour before daylight, set your feeder to go off two hours later.

When you have deer at your stand when you want to leave blow a coyote howler or get an app on your phone.

[sqiggy]

I believe you need to learn the deer at where you hunt. What I mean by that, you need to know where they like to go, where they feed, etc.
Getting to the stand a hour or hour and half before daylight may be too early. Some places I hunt, I won't get to the stand till after daylight because I know I will bust them going in at 6 in the morning.
Now, the big bucks on my place won't be at a feeder during daylight hours, so I don't hunt over feeders, even though we have them. On my place, bucks will travel on one trail and does on another. Find those trails and you probably will never hunt a feeder again.

[DirtyDave]

I usually get in the stand when I get there and get out when it's time to leave

[12thman]

There is no way to predict the getting in part. I usually try to get in 45-60 minutes before daylight so if I do spook some deer there is time for them to settle or other deer to come in. Getting out I will usually wait until it is dark then maybe a whistle or some slight sound just enough to get them to move off and get out as quick and quiet as possible.

[MagicBlade]

I usually get in the stand when I get there and get out when it's time to leave

There is no perfect time. But walk in and out as quickly & quietly as possible.

[Atfulldraw]

Get in early/leave late

I have my driver drop me off and come pick me up and run the tailgate feeder both times

[Burntorange Bowhunter]

I just tell them to leave when I am ready to go. Lol. Sometimes they follow my command and sometimes they keep eating.

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[Turboe]

I really appreciate all of the thoughts, I believe I will set up another blind away from the feeder. I know where and when they are coming through there.
will give it a shot next week.
Thanks!

[TXhoghunter94]

I get to the stand around 5:45am and leave around 9am. Then in the evenings I get there around 5:30pm and leave when I can't see anymore and just bump out whatever deer are there, unless it's a mature buck, then I wait until the leave (watching with the binoculars that can see better than I can).

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[Acameron52]

I usually get in the stand when I get there and get out when it's time to leave

Yup. I don’t worry about it too much.