Interesting you mention the moon. I hunted for 6 days starting Oct. 19. Big moon. I'd guess I saw 50 deer within range. A few nice does, many yearlings and a few decent bucks. Me and my buds clean missed 5, killed a nice 8 pt. and 2 nice does ... and passed on several yearlings. Probably together we saw well over 120. Most were feeding on acorns in the woods. Tons of feeding going on in daylight, even on the food plots.

One of the guys that I unt with just sent me photos off his trail cameras taken last week. His 7 cameras were out for about 10 days. All are on food plots. He had 6578 photos triggered by deer and turkey .... and one "unknown" critter. Looks like maybe a mink or could be a "smeared fox" ???

He culled the photos down to about 200. Who knows how many different deer that he has photos of .... 200-300 I'd guess. And possibly 100 different turkeys. Impossible to know for sure, but the cameras were separated by as much a 2-3 miles. across where we hunt. One shot has 22 deer in a 1/2 acre food plot Oct. 28 wearing out the purple top turnips that we planted in there along with the "mix" .... broad daylight at about 3:30 p.m. So they were out and about all week for sure ... full moom or not. Wind or no wind. And trust me late last week it was windy !!