All good advice, I will hunt but as many have already stated, I'll only take "sure, close shots" if there is such a thing...lol...

Good Luck All....Fletch

I have seen alot of deer in steady rain, hunt in it but make a good careful shot give him 20 min to a half hour IF IT'S A GOOD SHOT and go get him.<font color=green></font id=green>

Fellow Bowhunter,

I lost a button buck in early season due too an approaching thunderstorm (early season) and a marginal hit. By this I mean that my arrow was buried up to the fletchings throught the front should from an elevated position. This meant that the arrow didn't penetrate the lower portion of the deers body? Anyhow, no blood and 85 degree weather plus two days of looking for it. Made me sick, I found it on the third day with the help of my lab about 60 yards in the opposite direction of her initial travel? I'm like you with the rain but I love to stalk em, try just high percentage shots, double lungs or heart under twenty yards. Don't worry too much, something else in the food chain benefited from your loss!

Good luck and straight shootin
Air Master

P.S. I&quot;m also and National Archery Assoc. Instructor so we all have a bit of bad luck occasionally!

Sean P. McNierney
Berea, KY

I like hunting in the rain. Although I hate getting my gear soaked, there are alot of deer moving in this area during rain storms it seems. Any how I bought one of those screw in umbrellas to cover my stand, in fact it came in handy today here in MD. In my opinion the pro's out weigh the con's

If it's a lite rain i might stay in the stand other wise i get down and stalk, I have been very succesfull stalkin and with it raining it kinda put's the odd's in my favor,it's more quite and thier smell defense is limited

Don't like what I'm reading here. Only sure close shots in the rain? Does that open the door for far sloppy ones when it's not raining.

Learn how to track a critter and hunt.

If you hunt from a stand, use a String Tracker when it rains. If you are stalking, forget the tracker just learn how to follow a hit critter.

~Will Hunt For Food~

I like hunting in the rain too, just so long as it isn't a heavy downpour. I do not mind getting soaked, although the thought of drying my equipment later is a chore that must be done. Hunting in a fine drizzle makes for quieter stalking, BUT you must use your eyes more because you will never hear a deer approach.

I will be hunting in rain tommorrow<img src=icon_smile_sad.gif border=0 align=middle>. I don't like it, darn deer always sneek up on me in the rain, you can't hear them comming. I am always on edge, the stuff I hunt is thick and more than one time I have had a buck come closer than 20 yds before I knew he was there.

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I'm a foul weather freak.. cold, rainy, blustery... Mother Nature just throwing everything at ya. I sometimes just throw back my head raise my arms and say &quot;Come on... sock it to me&quot;.
BUT, I don't like bowhunting in the rain. Drizzle, spitting and stuff like that OK, but hard rain I don't like. I shorten my maximum shot distance to less than 25 yards and stick with it. Really I prefer less than 20 in the rain. 20 and under I consider &quot;SLAM DUNK&quot; stuff and know I can make a killing shot that I can find a deer without blood. Will probably see it fall a lot of the time. Where as in sunny or non rain days I'll take 30-35 yard shots without hesitation if I think that's the best I'll get.

I throw on the goretex, put a baggy over my feathers and go hunting if I'm away from home. If at home I'll probably just wait until it clears and see if I can be there the minute it does.

I would start tracking alot sooner... In the rain you can be much more quite and just take you time and be real slow and glass out in front of you as much as possible... If you really take you time you should be able to get within view of the deer without jumping him... But that is the chance you are going to have to take...