Well muzzleloader starts this weekend and looks like we have some rain in our forcast. How does rain usually effect deer movement? I have had some success in the past but just curious what others have expierence and I have heard good and bad things so just thought i would ask.
I've seen them move in the (light-moderate) rain - they seem to enjoy it. Being in a blind is fun - you stay dry and it's very peaceful! Doesn't affect bullet trajectory like you might think, either. Just so long as you have some decent raingear to keep both you and your ML powder dry while loading up, and going into and out of the woods, you're fine. A condom or some duct tape over the muzzle. Luckily I've got some XS condoms on hand! 
If it has been raining pretty steady for more than 3 hours or more, be there as soon as it stops. Movement will increase soon after rain stops.
The buck I shot last year during BP was in the rain there were 3 bucks just hanging out eating some grass, it was raining hard enough that is was hard to see them at 200 yards and the shot was about 140 yards. I can only speak for the place I hunt, when its raining in the middle of the day I am out sitting on the open fields seems like the deer are moving across open ground in the rain here.
Light rain is good and right after a heavy rain is outstanding. I won't hunt in a heavy rain out of fear of losing a deer becuase of the blood trail washing away.
They move in open ground in my neck of the woods also. My third biggest was taken in the middle of a toad strangler rain.
This has been my experience, too.
If anyone is afraid of wet pweder - take a bow and stick `em w/ an arrow.
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