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Post by TRTerror on Nov 30, 2024 19:03:55 GMT -5
My thoughts are this...
The Deer will lay up in the high grass or Fennel on a south facing area and keep warm. Bout early afternoon they'll head to the Oaks or whatever to feed.
If true..Early morning hunts ain't worth going. Hunt the afternoons and evenings up in the Bands of Oaks around the flat ponds and swamps.
What say you oh Pro hunters..?
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Post by swampdog on Nov 30, 2024 19:14:28 GMT -5
As we often replied to a similar thought while standing around a campfire or sitting in a roadside diner…”that sounds as good as anything else”.
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Post by tampaspicer on Dec 2, 2024 9:18:46 GMT -5
From my experience the deer will get up in feed mid/late morning once it warms up a tad. I've sat many of cold morning hours from daylight to 9am or so without seeing a thing. Then that sun warms things up a bit and the deer start moving.
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Post by TRTerror on Dec 2, 2024 10:28:21 GMT -5
Who ever thought I'd be listening to a drug using , Hippie Dippy , swinger for hunting advise..
My thoughts exactly there Spicer
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Post by JS84 on Dec 2, 2024 10:35:20 GMT -5
Same same. Movement starts right about when I've had enough of the cold and head in. I also tend to get busted in the mornings on the way to my stand. So lately I'm enjoying the walk to the stand at 3pm for an evening sit. Tends to be a little less cold too.
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Post by tampaspicer on Dec 2, 2024 10:36:09 GMT -5
Who ever thought I'd be listening to a drug using , Hippie Dippy , swinger for hunting advise.. My thoughts exactly there Spicer I've been in the woods most of my life. I've killed a lot of deer too.  |
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Post by altuck on Dec 2, 2024 13:45:03 GMT -5
I like hunting in the evening,
I like killing in the morning
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Post by treetom on Dec 2, 2024 20:52:29 GMT -5
I can't seem to do the morning thing anymore.
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Post by One Man Gang on Dec 2, 2024 21:42:54 GMT -5
The morning hunts are getting much less appealing to me as well, but having to clean 4 or 5 deer after dark is no fun either. And, getting up the next morning after that is even harder to enjoy. I don't know how many more years I have left in me to do that.
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Post by bullfrog on Dec 2, 2024 21:45:50 GMT -5
I see most mature bucks within the first or last minutes of daylight regardless as to temperature. I was raised to believe they’re more active on cold mornings, but my experience has been that cold is neutral on movement. Instead, unseasonable heat will shut them down when its previously been cool. So I avoid hot days later in the season, and hunt if I feel like it on very cold days.
In places where rutting coincides with late-fall cold weather, I see a lot at the crack of day during a frost. I like to be overlooking a long stretch with a rifle right on the first cold, clear, morning after a late November front has moved through.
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Post by swampdog on Dec 3, 2024 9:28:44 GMT -5
I’ve always enjoyed seeing the sun come up and setting all year around. A battery powered vest still helps w the real cold days. However I’ve killed more bucks between 11:00 am and 2:00 pm. As a dear departed hunting buddy always declared, “the best time to go hunting or fishing is to go when you’re able to go. Don’t wait on a perfect weather time to go.” I still subscribe to that position.
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Post by One Man Gang on Dec 3, 2024 9:33:29 GMT -5
Exactly Swamp. My hunting time is limited because of life right now, so unless the conditions are life threatening and I can get to the coffee pot on my own two feet in the morning, I'll be there.
I may not "love" the situation, but I will find a way to make it work, and I'll be there.
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Post by Crkr 23 on Dec 3, 2024 10:38:35 GMT -5
When I worked I hunted at dang near every opportunity. When I retired I found every excuse not to hunt, too wet, too cold, too hot, tomorrow will be better. I have become a mere shadow of my former self.
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