Originally Posted by
mrl0004
I have noticed a steady enough trend that I am almost through hunting in the early morning. I never see deer on morning hunts, even when it's cold. On the hunts from mid-afternoon to dark, I have seen the most deer. In fact, every deer I ever shot was right before dark.
I know that in the morning they are heading to bed down or are out moving to keep warm if it's cold. Maybe it's due to the screwy weather here in Alabama that past couple of year, where it's warmer than it should be coupled with good acorn crops that keep them in the woods. Just curious if anyone has noticed a trend.
Trend yep - Evening no!
Hunt food plots and agriculture fields. I see most deer on cold mornings where there is a frost on the ground, little wind and no moon the night before.
The deer will come out and feed in the places where the rising sun starts to burn off the frost.