I think you will find several studies indicating that deer are affected by moon phase...including new. Personally I have been seeing quite a bit of deer activity over the last few days...especially preceeding these thunder-boomers we have been getting in the afternoon. In a related issue, when I pulled the film from my game cam this past weekend it recorded 83 "events" in the 6 days I had it out. I consider that pretty significant for the area I hunt.