RE: If you could hunt at night....
 

"They feed for a little while after sundown and a liitle while before sun up."
Right there is why it would be easier. Plus, they do feed off and on all night, although those are the highest activity times.
It is amazing what you can see at night. Your eyes take a little while to fully adjust, but animals aren't afraid to the degree they are in the day. Deer will let you walk right up to them before they spook. I've had a lot more deer take off snorting from 15yds and scaring the hell out of me at night. In daytime, they usually hide or sneak out long before you get there.
Think about it, it's a lot easier to get a camtracker picture of a buck than it is to actually shoot one. Why? Because they move more, they hit the food sources, they're not afraid.
BM, you really think deer are smart? Even the smartest animals like dogs, chimps, dolphins, ect, aren't what I'd call smart. If you can teach them to sit or jump through a hoop, it's an accomplishment, and I doubt you could teach many ungulates those tricks, aside from a pig. You wouldn't see so many deer hit by cars if they had any sense. Deer are dumb as a rock, they just have extraordinary senses, and instincts. They don't avoid you because they think there may be a hunter in those trees, they avoid you because they instinctually move into the wind, if possible, and they can smell you from 1/4 a mile off. Big bucks survive by being cautious and not walking around in broad daylight, not by problem solving.

RE: If you could hunt at night....
 

Its legal to hunt hogs in Texas at night.Try sittin out in the brush ,when rattlesnakes are the most active trying to avoid all the stickers, and facing a mad boar hog you just shot And tell me that aint huntin.

RE: If you could hunt at night....
 

I agree cardeer, I was only speaking to deer, I guess. I've hunted fox, coyote, frogs and snapping turtles at night, and had a great time.

RE: If you could hunt at night....
 

I second ABM minus the beauty sleep as I need all I can get!

Been on a "late nite caribou kill" A little earlier then his but the dang sun was still up! By the time we photographed, quartered, caped, and started packing the dang sky was turning blue again! You talk an experience!

I have also been on a few fox forays late nite in winter....its fun but heck on a full moon nite up here with snow on the ground there is no need for spotlights!

RE: If you could hunt at night....
 

I recently read somewhere that the vast majority of big buck camtracker pics where taken at, or very close to midnight. Keeping that in mind, and knowing that most of the biggest bucks try to stay in heavy cover until it's dark, it stands to reason that the biggest bucks would lose one of the biggest advantages--the "safety" of nighttime. I'm against it.

RE: If you could hunt at night....
 

I would love to try it, if were legal.

Paul

RE: If you could hunt at night....
 

Hey, there you go. We can go to Alaska and hunt about 20 hours a day without it getting dark. When does night come in a situation like that?<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

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