What are your typical hours on a stand deer hunting?

[Reyn]

My 3 deer this year were killed at

7:30am
10:15am
9:30am

I just changed shifts and dont get off til 11pm which makes getting up at 4am tough. I might try some afternoon hunting.

 

[bdg146]

At least 30 minutes before first light and I stay until sun down.

To everyone that says it's not worth hunting in the afternoon and instead they head into camp, I'd just like to say thank you. It's tough to stay attentive all day, but around 10-11 AM, you get a lot of hunters who head back into camp, and they inadvertently push a lot of deer around. It's like having 10 people putting on a drive for you and they don't even know it.

 

[scotjute]

Last year quit hunting around 10. Was on an aluminum ladder about 9' up nailing a duck-house to a post out in the open by a pond around 11:30 when a nice 8 pt suddenly hops out of the woods and runs straight at me!
About 30 yds away he saw me and veered off to the side.
Have seen at least one other buck moving in middle of the day. Perhaps that's a strategy they have adopted that works.

 

[CoRoMo]

I tried to wait for as long as I could, at a good spot this year, but left after less than an hour of waiting. I can't stand to sit there and hope for a dumb one to walk by.
I took off hiking to where I thought I'd find one, and bam!
Dropped a nice mule deer on the first morning of the season.
I'll go find them from now on.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

Was on an aluminum ladder about 9' up nailing a duck-house to a post out in the open by a pond around 11:30 when a nice 8 pt suddenly hops out of the woods and runs straight at me!

Years ago, some friends and I arranged to have some timber company land available to us alone. Scouting it, I found a stand already built, overlooking a fresh scrape. I sat in that stand three days running, and never saw a deer. I would sit there until about 11:00, come down and then come back around 5:00 PM.

For some reason on afternoon of the third day, I walked over to the scrape (which I had been religiously avoiding lest I leave a scent there) and found fresh tracks!

The next morning, I came out to the stand at about 10:30, and had just got comfortable when a nice 9 pointer came out of the swamp and proceeded to thrash the brush around the scrape.

 

[Rembrandt]

Varies....somedays from dark-to-dark. DNR ask volunteers to record their bow hunting hours and number of deer seen....to my shock I bow hunted 165 hours for deer this year.