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Where do deer go in storms

This is a great thread, which reminded me of a post season scouting trip after a snow storm last year. I found a lot of deer sign in a small wooded area along a power line. This area is in a valley with several cedar trees.

After reading the first few posts yesterday afternoon, I packed and hurried to that spot yesterday for the last hour of light. I didn't shoot any thing, but saw 8 does and 4 bucks, who all came out of that spot, which is a very small 150 yards x 100 yards. The bucks were all too young, but now I have a confirmed area deer like when winter storms come in.
 
When I was a lot younger and did not have the "intellect" I have today, I hunted in all weather. My philosophy was, I can't shoot one if I'm not in the woods. I would sit in a tree stand with lightening storms and/or high wind, and even still hunted some during these conditions.
In my 40+ years of hunting in bad weather, I have determined that you can't really depend on deer to do the same thing every time. I have been in stands at the edge of fields and it seems like every deer in the county shows up. Then the next storm there are none. Same with pine or cedar thickets. Sometimes they move to the thickets, other times they are nowhere to be found. Occasionally if they are not in the fields, they are in the thickets. And vice versa. And sometimes I don't see any no matter how much waiting or walking I do.
Once, while still hunting in a torrential downpour, I was easing through pine thicket in west Tennessee and walked up on about 30 bedded bucks (no shooters) and does. All were 10 to 40 yards and didn't know I was anywhere near. Most seemed to be asleep. I just eased back out and didn't spook them and didn't see any more the rest of the hunt.
All my personal experience proves to me is that deer are not predictable during storms. And if you are going to hunt in sever weather, invest in a great rain suit!!!!
 

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