October Lull?
#1
October Lull?
I've heard different stories about this topic. Some say the deer just disappear and some say thats when the big boys love to show. Now last year I hunted every weekend of Oct. and I remember seeing very few deer at all. No bucks. Now, would you say they are in the deep wooded areas eating the forage or do they wait til dark to eat the crops? I just don't know. I'm kinda at a confused state of mind. If I'm reading the signs wrong or what. Someones gotta have a solution.
#3
RE: October Lull?
Here.....they're transitioning food sources (october). So....I think a lot of people think they're less active....because they're hunting for them the same way they did in Sept.
I never really pay the notion any mind.
I never really pay the notion any mind.
#4
RE: October Lull?
I hear of this lull, but I have never really experienced it. There are so many deer here in Va that you can almost see one every time you hunt and never hunt the same stand more than once in a year.
#6
Typical Buck
Join Date: May 2007
Location: South Carolina
Posts: 957
RE: October Lull?
Here in SC this "lull" is easy to solve.
October is when our white oaks start dropping their acorns. Find the white oaks and you will find deer. I see more deer in October than any other month because I hunt the white oaks.
October is when our white oaks start dropping their acorns. Find the white oaks and you will find deer. I see more deer in October than any other month because I hunt the white oaks.
#9
RE: October Lull?
ORIGINAL: StrutNtom
Here in SC this "lull" is easy to solve.
October is when our white oaks start dropping their acorns. Find the white oaks and you will find deer. I see more deer in October than any other month because I hunt the white oaks.
Here in SC this "lull" is easy to solve.
October is when our white oaks start dropping their acorns. Find the white oaks and you will find deer. I see more deer in October than any other month because I hunt the white oaks.
Another answer might be, they got bumped off of their regular rutines by the mass invasion of bowhunters into the woods. If you suddenly had a bunch of strangers walking around in your backyard, you might avoid it too.
#10
RE: October Lull?
Here.....they're transitioning food sources (october). So....I think a lot of people think they're less active....because they're hunting for them the same way they did in Sept.
The thing that people don't take into account, here.....is where are the FIRST mast producing trees the deer are going to utilize (and for how long)? I know on the lands I hunt......they have these trees closer to their bedding areas. Once they deplete those.....they'll come to me (or....the mast trees I CAN hunt). If I sat in a group of white oaks, in October.....and the deer are using mast crops....but those utilized arecloser to their beds.......
Yeah....I "might" experience a "lull".