When my Dad was showing me the ropes of deer hunting, he would hand me a sack lunch (which never made it later then 10:00 am) and tell me to sit tight for the afternoon. (thank goodness I always packed a lunch too.) He claimed that when other hunters walked out to eat lunch at their cars or camp, the deer moved. He swears he saw deer follow one hunter out of the woods to an edge of the field. Like it was trailing him. So we always sat out the late morning and afternoons as well.

It made for some long cold days, sitting in a tree or in my early years when tree stands were not allowed, on stumps in the snow with a little brush piled around you to cut the wind. But that afternoon hunting used to pay off. I shot a lot of small bucks around 12:30 in the afternoon.

How many of you have walked back to camp or your car, sat down for a lunch of sandwiches and hot coffee, and then saw deer suddenly cross the field? Something or someone was moving them deer. That is why you never leave for lunch. Let lunch come to you.