close to bedding in the morning, close to food source in the evening. All day during rut near doe bedding. It really depends on when you are hunting and the area you are hunting. For example, if you are hunting a small piece of property, you may not have permission on the piece of property the deer are feeding on heavily at the time, but you have their primary bedding area, so you would want to focus your attention on the morning hunt to catch them moving from feeding to bedding from my experience.