RookieBeast2019 wrote:gsquared23 wrote:Dewey wrote:I totally agree with hunting up till the last second of LEGAL time if you possible because odds are that’s when the bigger bucks usually show up but that’s not always possible. Every year the first few weeks of the season I find myself packing up sometimes 10 minutes early because I simply cannot see anymore due to heavy canopy in the tree tops especially on cloudy days. If I cannot easily identify a bucks rack or especially pick out a spot for a killing shot I’m done for the day. No way I’m pushing the envelope just because the law says I can still shoot. Thankfully later in the season that’s not an issue and then there is no reason not to hunt until that final second.
Spot on. I had some does come by last night at least 9-10 minutes before the end of “legal” shooting light, but I could barely make them out and only when they were moving, much less make an ethical shot. As they moved through I started packing it up, if I can’t see enough detail to make an ethical kill, shooting light has passed.
Yup. If my old eyes can’t see. It’s time to pack up.
I had this situation alot out in Montana. I believe WI legal shooting goes to about 20 minutes after sundown. MT is 30 minutes. Add in being on the shaded side of the mountain and it was too dark to shoot 15 minutes after sundown. But the animal movement "kinda" started earlier in those places too.