Hey, maybe you've come up with a way to increase deer activity during the daylight hours. If some &quot;Yahoo&quot; is out there pestering them all night they couldn't eat. They'd feed more during the daylight hours.<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> OK, you take the 8PM to 4 AM shift. I'll take the 7AM til Dark shift.

P.S. It would also allow me to hunt some of that POSTED property.<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle> nyuck nyuck nyuck

Edited by - davidmil on 02/28/2002 09:39:21

You mean that you don't hunt posted prop now?
That's why they make throw away bows....<img src=icon_smile_clown.gif border=0 align=middle>

I don't think that it would be an easier than hunting deer during the day. It might be a little more dangerous and it might mean that some more deer will be wounded, but if it was legallized, I would. I know exactly where I would go, my neighbors yard. They have a big light post in the middle of a bunch of white oaks. In late season archery, I never see deer, but that yard is FULL of tracks from deer at night. I would love just to sit there and see how many deer came into feed.

Good Luck This Season: Buck Magnet
&quot;Hunting is not a sport, it is a passion, it is a WAY OF LIFE&quot;

Like was stated already, nite hunting isn't hunting. It's just killing meat and knowing what lies the other side of the critter is danged near impossible which makes it dangerous for others, especially with a firearm.

In many of the areas I hunt, the tracks indicate tremendous activity--but daytime sightings are minimal. I recently was checking out the night vision goggles that No.1GW has--just like daylight. With those--and the deer that I see moving just as darkness hides them, the results would probably be fantastic at first--until the deer realized what was happening and adjusted their patterns. Personally though, I'm against the idea.

How could it be killing instead of hunting? It wouldn't be that easy. Its not like deer are blind at night and loose all their senses when the sun goes down. Deer are more adapted to the woods than humans during the day, now, look at it when it is dark, the deer have an even big upperhand when no lights are being used.

Good Luck This Season: Buck Magnet
&quot;Hunting is not a sport, it is a passion, it is a WAY OF LIFE&quot;

I feel pretty confidene I could kill just about any individual buck in my area during the course of a season if I could hunt at night. A deer naturally moves at night, they have eyes designed for it. They have very few cones, and don't see much color, but they have tons of rods and can see very well in the dark. The same as all mostly nocturnal animals. They have to feed sometime, and a deer isn't a smart animal. If there's equal hunting pressure in the day and night, they'll still feed at night. In most areas there's too many deer to survive on browse, they have to come into the hardwoods, or fields. They do this at night, and if you're waiting for them, they're still going to come in and feed. I'm sure they'll start scent checking the food source, which they probably don't do as much at night, but with a little creativity, it'll just be a matter of a waiting game. I can hit a dark sillouette in the field at night if there's any moon.
Deer HAVE to eat, and if you're waiting by the food 24hrs a day, you'll get your shot.
As far as me personally, nights are for drinking beer.

Since when is a deer not smart? Who is to say that the deer are going to feed in the field you are set up at? Who is going to say that they will come down a trail near you? There is no difference between night and day as to the amount of challenge. Also, deer do not feed consistently throughout the night. They feed for a little while after sun down and a liitle while before sun up.

Good Luck This Season: Buck Magnet
&quot;Hunting is not a sport, it is a passion, it is a WAY OF LIFE&quot;

Heck, I shot my July 5th caribou at 1:30 in the morning. Would you consider that night time? <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

You can spotlight animals under a trapping license until the end of March. It's pretty dang fun actually, but we've only taken 1 fox that way in a few weeks of trying. It's cool to see their eyes in the glow of the light.

I wouldn't be into hunting big game animals in the dark however, just doesn't seem that sporting. I also don't want to miss out on my beauty sleep, not that I need it or anything. <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

A lot of these replies surprise me, I have often walked in the woods late at night, as long as the moon is out vision is not an issue at all, I agree that it would be more dangerous due to not being able to see great distances, but I could do it safely with a good backstop. Sometime when the moon is full walk into the woods late at night and sit down for an hour, what you see will amaze you, it is a whole different world. I would hunt at night if it was legal, but like others have said it would be private property. I do not think they should make it legal though. Actually you would be amazed at how well you can see without the moon.

The Tazman