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Does Moon Phase Impact Deer Movement?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tesoro" data-source="post: 1432675" data-attributes="member: 44340"><p>You cant always plan your hunt around the moon but you can hunt based on the moon.</p><p>All critters and fish operate around the moon as they are either feeding or hiding from being fed on depending on the cycle. So if your huntin an area you need to figure out where the deer feed and bed and travel back and forth to and look for them there depending on what moon time it is. The deer feed more than once typically so after they bed they will get up to munch a little and stretch their legs.</p><p>If its cold they will bed where they get warmed by the morning sun and if its hot they will bed where its shaded and cool when the sun pops up. Dozens of tricks to learn for diff areas and diff animals. Bottom line is anyone who dosent believe that the moon dosent have a big play on animal behavior hasnt been in the woods or on the water too much. if you use the moon you increase your odds of finding them.</p><p></p><p>And yes adverse weather can change things but deer have to eat no matter what every day so they arent going to hole up for 4 days and not eat and just bed just because the wx is crappy. They have a cycle and it really isnt changed just because there is overcast obscuring the moonlight for a few days.</p><p></p><p>The rut throws everything out of wack so you need to look where the does bed and hang out. If you're looking for big bucks out of rut they will usually bed up higher with better views and escape routes. The does dont have those same instincts and bed closer to their feeding areas.</p><p></p><p>ps:Of course alot of this becomes mute in hunting areas where the deer are being disturbed by mass hunter invasion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tesoro, post: 1432675, member: 44340"] You cant always plan your hunt around the moon but you can hunt based on the moon. All critters and fish operate around the moon as they are either feeding or hiding from being fed on depending on the cycle. So if your huntin an area you need to figure out where the deer feed and bed and travel back and forth to and look for them there depending on what moon time it is. The deer feed more than once typically so after they bed they will get up to munch a little and stretch their legs. If its cold they will bed where they get warmed by the morning sun and if its hot they will bed where its shaded and cool when the sun pops up. Dozens of tricks to learn for diff areas and diff animals. Bottom line is anyone who dosent believe that the moon dosent have a big play on animal behavior hasnt been in the woods or on the water too much. if you use the moon you increase your odds of finding them. And yes adverse weather can change things but deer have to eat no matter what every day so they arent going to hole up for 4 days and not eat and just bed just because the wx is crappy. They have a cycle and it really isnt changed just because there is overcast obscuring the moonlight for a few days. The rut throws everything out of wack so you need to look where the does bed and hang out. If you're looking for big bucks out of rut they will usually bed up higher with better views and escape routes. The does dont have those same instincts and bed closer to their feeding areas. ps:Of course alot of this becomes mute in hunting areas where the deer are being disturbed by mass hunter invasion. [/QUOTE]
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