When do you see the most deer?
01-10-2012, 01:59 PM
#21
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: US South
Posts: 444
I have noticed a steady enough trend that I am almost through hunting in the early morning. I never see deer on morning hunts, even when it's cold. On the hunts from mid-afternoon to dark, I have seen the most deer. In fact, every deer I ever shot was right before dark.
I know that in the morning they are heading to bed down or are out moving to keep warm if it's cold. Maybe it's due to the screwy weather here in Alabama that past couple of year, where it's warmer than it should be coupled with good acorn crops that keep them in the woods. Just curious if anyone has noticed a trend.
I know that in the morning they are heading to bed down or are out moving to keep warm if it's cold. Maybe it's due to the screwy weather here in Alabama that past couple of year, where it's warmer than it should be coupled with good acorn crops that keep them in the woods. Just curious if anyone has noticed a trend.
Hunt food plots and agriculture fields. I see most deer on cold mornings where there is a frost on the ground, little wind and no moon the night before.
The deer will come out and feed in the places where the rising sun starts to burn off the frost.
01-11-2012, 05:53 PM
#23
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Allenton Wis.
Posts: 186
I don't even go early morning anymore. Trail cams also tell me they rarely move early morning most likely due to the wolves. They used to move first light. Now when they move it's 2-4 hrs after first light. Night is better.
01-12-2012, 07:16 PM
#24
Typical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Northern Michigan
Posts: 974
Like most have said...
a lot goes into what, why, when, you see deer. Me, I have morning stands, midday stands, evening stands. With that said, time of year( feeding or rut), what happened to them during the night (yotes, bear, wolves) moving them around. Wind direction. Hunters walking and pushing them, scent. Jeez I could go on. My advice is find a site with all the welcome signs, set up a stand 25' or higher, get in it and watch them starting in early spring (before the leaves) thru the summer. Watch for travel with different wind directions, where buck clubs come in and out, doe packs travel and so on. In other words, gotta be dedicated and do the hard work, there are no answers on the internet for YOUR "particular" position, just have to do the work, or chance it and get lucky, it's your time, use it wisely.
01-14-2012, 05:06 AM
#25
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Helenville WI USA
Posts: 900
I have noticed a steady enough trend that I am almost through hunting in the early morning. I never see deer on morning hunts, even when it's cold. On the hunts from mid-afternoon to dark, I have seen the most deer. In fact, every deer I ever shot was right before dark.
I know that in the morning they are heading to bed down or are out moving to keep warm if it's cold. Maybe it's due to the screwy weather here in Alabama that past couple of year, where it's warmer than it should be coupled with good acorn crops that keep them in the woods. Just curious if anyone has noticed a trend.
I know that in the morning they are heading to bed down or are out moving to keep warm if it's cold. Maybe it's due to the screwy weather here in Alabama that past couple of year, where it's warmer than it should be coupled with good acorn crops that keep them in the woods. Just curious if anyone has noticed a trend.
01-17-2012, 12:46 PM
#27
Spike
Join Date: Dec 2011
Posts: 83
I used to see a whole bunch of traveling to and from bedding and feeding areas during early morning or just before last light on days that the barometric pressure was quickly dropping to the 30 mark (or around that) I would purposely sit in those travel route stands on days when I knew this was happening. I also would notice deer where out in clover,wheat and sometimes corn fields about 2 days before a low pressure system would be on its way. I use to notice this activity on those days anywhere from 40 minutes before last light. It just seemed like they came out of the woodwork on those days. I really don't know why? I didn't see this the day before a big storm system or even the night of. It seemed to happen the most when it was 2 days before.
Anyways, since I don't live in upstate NY anymore, the place I see the most deer is usually at Bass Pro shop.
Anyways, since I don't live in upstate NY anymore, the place I see the most deer is usually at Bass Pro shop.
