It depends what I am hunting. I should say what I hunted because I am now physically limited.
Elk......I prefer to hunt alone, still hunting and smelling animals before I see them. Use to walk up hill for about two hours in the dark to get on a north-south ridge where the wind came from the west. When shooting time came I would still hunt north on the east side just down from the crest. Blowing snow was my favorite time to get close to good bulls after smelling them. Several were taken under 40 yards.
Mule deer ......almost the same as hunting elk.
Whitetail........Last hour of legal shooting time.
