Editor
Aiden founded Thirty Before Sunrise to write the hunting coverage he kept failing to find: plain answers, stated sources, and no gear claims that outrun the testing behind them. He hunts whitetails in the Upper Midwest.
aiden@thirtybeforesunrise.com
Seasons & Regulations
Pre-rut, seeking, chasing, breeding, and post-rut behave differently enough that the same stand can be right in one phase and wrong in the next. Here is the sequence.
4 min read
Scouting
A repeatable process for learning unfamiliar ground, starting at the map and ending with a stand location you can reach in the dark without ruining it.
5 min read
Seasons & Regulations
Legal shooting light usually opens thirty minutes before sunrise, but the window is not the same in every state and it is not the same thing as civil twilight.
4 min read