Independent Study

[Ski]

One of those data points showing more buck activity. had to do with either wind direction changes or a lull in wind then a change in direction. Or something like that you found wasn't it. ?

Yes. Excluding dusk and dawn movements, better than 70% of mature bucks I catch on camera in broad daylight fall within an hour one way or the other of a major wind direction change. Most generally it's when a front moves in and southerly wind dies down to a calm before the storm and picks back up from the north. The bucks, even the old guys, are on their feet during that lull. It happens at each side of a front.

I've got ideas of why it happens but not totally sure. Regardless it happens and I kill good bucks by planning for it. Other conditions often coincide with it like sudden barometric pressure swings, steep temp changes, precipitation, cloud cover, or any combination. My simplist guess is it's because a buck's bed is compromised by the wind change so he moves to a more suitable bed for the new wind.

 

[Double-D-Team]

Yes. Excluding dusk and dawn movements, better than 70% of mature bucks I catch on camera in broad daylight fall within an hour one way or the other of a major wind direction change. Most generally it's when a front moves in and southerly wind dies down to a calm before the storm and picks back up from the north. The bucks, even the old guys, are on their feet during that lull. It happens at each side of a front.

I've got ideas of why it happens but not totally sure. Regardless it happens and I kill good bucks by planning for it. Other conditions often coincide with it like sudden barometric pressure swings, steep temp changes, precipitation, cloud cover, or any combination. My simplist guess is it's because a buck's bed is compromised by the wind change so he moves to a more suitable bed for the new wind.

Definitely good points.

 

[Snake]

Thank you for your input. I like hunting days on a new moon, I seem to see more deer.

This is me to a tee or should I say used to . New moon and I was off I was excited yo say the least .

 

[WTNBowHunter]

could you imagine an "if then, then that" workflow chart for deer hunting with a perfected & proven variable analysis?

lowest probably of this is ~0.0%. not saying i would want that because i feel certain it would remove the fun, for me at least. and it would likely look unreadable haha!

 

[Double-D-Team]

True, it's still called hunting. The unknown is what makes it hunting. Like a kid on Christmas morning.

 

[BSK]

True, it's still called hunting. The unknown is what makes it hunting. Like a kid on Christmas morning.

A perfect example of this. It's opening afternoon of MZ season this year. Forecast is for heavy rain moving in during the hunt. We have 6 condo/shooting house stands on our place. We had 5 hunters choosing which stand to hunt for a rainy hunt. Cameras had shown we had a really nice mature 10-point on the property, and everyone was after that guy. Cameras also showed there was one food plot he never visited. He was being regularly photographed in the other plots. Because I've been very lucky in the past when it came to taking one of the better bucks on the property, I wanted to give other hunters the chance to see/kill this mature 10-pointer, so I specifically chose to hunt the one food plot he has never been photographed in. Yet just at dark, here he comes and I kill him. THAT'S the thrill of hunting. Despite what the cameras and data showed, you just never know what's going to happen once you're on stand.

 

[Double-D-Team]

A perfect example of this. It's opening afternoon of MZ season this year. Forecast is for heavy rain moving in during the hunt. We have 6 condo/shooting house stands on our place. We had 5 hunters choosing which stand to hunt for a rainy hunt. Cameras had shown we had a really nice mature 10-point on the property, and everyone was after that guy. Cameras also showed there was one food plot he never visited. He was being regularly photographed in the other plots. Because I've been very lucky in the past when it came to taking one of the better bucks on the property, I wanted to give other hunters the chance to see/kill this mature 10-pointer, so I specifically chose to hunt the one food plot he has never been photographed in. Yet just at dark, here he comes and I kill him. THAT'S the thrill of hunting. Despite what the cameras and data showed, you just never know what's going to happen once you're on stand.

Amen to that. Just go hunting and enjoy the moment. You never know?

 

[Ski]

I'll never stop trying to figure them out and hope i never do. For me it's akin to my wife's puzzles and word games that challenge her brain. Deer challenge my brain. It's fun.

 

[Double-D-Team]

I'll never stop trying to figure them out and hope i never do. For me it's akin to my wife's puzzles and word games that challenge her brain. Deer challenge my brain. It's fun.

Enjoy the challenge is what's it's about. Sometimes they win and given all the right cond6you win.

 

[Ski]

Enjoy the challenge is what's it's about. Sometimes they win and given all the right cond6you win.

In my case they most generally always win But sometimes ....

 

[Double-D-Team]

In my case they most generally always win But sometimes ....

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