Bad Weather / Pouring Rain
 

I decided to go sit for a few hours in the pouring rain yesterday.
You know the kind... Rain running down the crack of your butt, makin' everything all pruney and such.[:@]
Every year I re-learn why I don't hunt bad wether!

My question is that I have NEVER seen a deer in the heavy rain or windy days over 20 mph.
Share a story if you have, or just tell about the percentage of bad weather hunting verses sightings/kills.

RE: Bad Weather / Pouring Rain
 

I went out 1 morning with a 100% chance of thunderstorms. It wasn't here yet, so I hoped that the deer would really be moving. Rain started moving in around 8 am. Nothing. Then when the thunder and lightning started i figured it was time to get out of my steel stand that was up 20 feet. Walking back to the truck in a downpour and cloud to ground lightning, I crested a hill and there was about 15 deer bedded down about 20 yards out. They all jumped up and scared the .... out of me. No chance for a shot and don't plan on hunting like that again very soon.

RE: Bad Weather / Pouring Rain
 

I think a ground blind is my next x-mas present after the bath I took yesterday!

RE: Bad Weather / Pouring Rain
 

really pouring rains or winds stiff enough to move my stand keep me from bowhunting. cant really say what moves in weather like that coz im not out in it lol....id suspect much of nothing to be moving....before and during such weather is time to get out there....

RE: Bad Weather / Pouring Rain
 

i have seen more deer after a rain out in the fields than any other time.