What if itis cloudy at night for 1 week straight during the full moon phase? - are they still moving more at night?

Are you saying that for whatever reason they like to move by the light of the silvery full moon?

Aren'ttheir eyes almost as good at night as they are during the day?

Why would they need the extra light of the full moon to move more?

I believe people think they move more during the full moon (if it isn't cloudy), because WE humans can see them moving around since the moon is casting a lot of light for US to see them with.

The rut occurs every year within a 14 day period in the North, whether it coincides with the photoperiodism, the full moon, or because of the Great Pumpkin - it really doesn't matter to me.

I just wish I had a job and a life that would allow me to be in the woods as much as possible during that timeframe.

Instead, most of that time, I will be stuck at work looking at all of your swollen neck, multi-pointed, drop-tined, crab-clawed, split-tined,heavy-racked, kicker-pointed, broken-rack, heavy bodied, big buck pictures (before, during lunch break and after only of course).

Good Luck.