What's everyone's plan tomorrow?
I've been contemplating getting up at the butt-crack of dawn or just waiting until around 7:30AM / 8:00AM due to the warm-weather/wind/moon being here until around 3:00AM when it starts to drop down to 46 degrees (where I hunt in Morris). I've got two boys and a father-in-law that are all willing to get out there in the cold with me, but I'm not sure what my plan is yet.
Anyone got any guesses as to what this half-warm / half cold, full-moon / storm-rolling-in, tornado-warning, first-cold-weather-worth-a-crap-for-deer-hunting-in-this-area weather is going to do to the deer?
I went out this afternoon/evening and toughed out the wind/heat to see absolutely no activity at all.
My son spooked a deer yesterday just getting in the stand at 2:30PM (I didn't expect to see anything at that time and I didn't tell him to be as quiet as he should have been). Didn't even see if it was a doe or buck, it just started blowing at us and took off (it was behind us where we hadn't seen much of any activity prior to yesterday and sure enough, Murphy's law was in effect that day).
My other son spooked a doe and young buck on Sat evening trying to get a shot at them, so I'm starting to get concerned that too much of our activity in the area is going to cause them to move to another area from being spooked too much.
I dunno - but I'm definitely going out tomorrow one way or another.
I noticed that since about Sunday, the deer haven't been touching the corn I dumped near my feeder (or the corn that my feeder has been spitting out).
They've been eating the crap out of it up until then, so I'm figuring its either my traveling through that area that's bothering them (the two areas where I hunt are setup so that my first spot is by the feeder, and my second spot requires me to walk through this area to get to my tree-stand), or the heat/full-moon/wind.
I've got several fields of soy beans, peanuts, hay, etc... nearby, so its not like the deer don't have alternative food sources, but they still have been hitting the corn up until the last few days - then I notice that I've got very few pics of them eating the corn and all nocturnal.
I get that they would be there at night because of the moon/temps/wind, but I don't get why they would be eating less and less unless they're more comfortable with eating out of the local fields instead because of the warmer temps/moon and the full-moon at night making it easier for them to travel farther to get there instead of just hanging around my feeder? I don't know.
Anywho - what's everyone else's plans for tomorrow?
I've been contemplating getting up at the butt-crack of dawn or just waiting until around 7:30AM / 8:00AM due to the warm-weather/wind/moon being here until around 3:00AM when it starts to drop down to 46 degrees (where I hunt in Morris). I've got two boys and a father-in-law that are all willing to get out there in the cold with me, but I'm not sure what my plan is yet.
Anyone got any guesses as to what this half-warm / half cold, full-moon / storm-rolling-in, tornado-warning, first-cold-weather-worth-a-crap-for-deer-hunting-in-this-area weather is going to do to the deer?
I went out this afternoon/evening and toughed out the wind/heat to see absolutely no activity at all.
My son spooked a deer yesterday just getting in the stand at 2:30PM (I didn't expect to see anything at that time and I didn't tell him to be as quiet as he should have been). Didn't even see if it was a doe or buck, it just started blowing at us and took off (it was behind us where we hadn't seen much of any activity prior to yesterday and sure enough, Murphy's law was in effect that day).
My other son spooked a doe and young buck on Sat evening trying to get a shot at them, so I'm starting to get concerned that too much of our activity in the area is going to cause them to move to another area from being spooked too much.
I dunno - but I'm definitely going out tomorrow one way or another.
I noticed that since about Sunday, the deer haven't been touching the corn I dumped near my feeder (or the corn that my feeder has been spitting out).
They've been eating the crap out of it up until then, so I'm figuring its either my traveling through that area that's bothering them (the two areas where I hunt are setup so that my first spot is by the feeder, and my second spot requires me to walk through this area to get to my tree-stand), or the heat/full-moon/wind.
I've got several fields of soy beans, peanuts, hay, etc... nearby, so its not like the deer don't have alternative food sources, but they still have been hitting the corn up until the last few days - then I notice that I've got very few pics of them eating the corn and all nocturnal.
I get that they would be there at night because of the moon/temps/wind, but I don't get why they would be eating less and less unless they're more comfortable with eating out of the local fields instead because of the warmer temps/moon and the full-moon at night making it easier for them to travel farther to get there instead of just hanging around my feeder? I don't know.
Anywho - what's everyone else's plans for tomorrow?
