Coug, what have you noticed about hunting on a full moon, speaking of moon phase?? I hear most folks say they don't like hunting a full moon, but myself, I see MORE deer during that phase......What's that all about I wonder???
How important or how much of a factor it(full moon) is during the pre-rut or rut.............I am not really sure to be honest but..........in the midwestern agricultural areas, I do believe that deer will tend to move more at night with a full moon phase, at least in pressured areas. It makes sense to me that deer would feed more at night under a full moon and would begin to come out to feed later in the evening and return to bedding areas earlier in the morning. Of course this begs the question.....what if there are days/nights of heavy cloud cover and how does that affect or change any habits or tendacies deer might have with moon phases?
In my instance, I seem to see more deer under new moon, first quarter and late quarter phases. I sure wish I had kept a log of every time I hunted from the time I first started deer hunting. In the rut I don't really thinks it matters much with a full moon, but I'd still prefer to hunt with a non-full moon phase.