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Does Moon Phase Impact Deer Movement?
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<blockquote data-quote="R2rr" data-source="post: 1404988" data-attributes="member: 104785"><p>Absolutely, based on my observations.</p><p>These lessons I learned while archery hunting (before compound bows) beginning at age 12. They still hold true elsewhere.</p><p>I began deer hunting alone young, and "my" area was an all but un-hunted little ridge with a volcanic bluff nose. </p><p>The inside of the bluff was a treed bowl with lots of bedding areas. The outside was a semi-open feeding area. </p><p>The deer would move from the bedding area in the AM according to the dawn. I had to arrive before dawn to get in position, in the pinch point under the bluff (they moved around the bluff nose, at/in the tree line).</p><p>If the moon was out, and I arrived at usual "clock" time before dawn, I would be too late. The deer had moved to the big open feeding side ahead of me in the moonlight. With no moon or little moonlight, they were always on time (dawn time, not clock time). Every day. Every year. Never failed.</p><p>I have applied this "lesson" for 46 more years, in lots of other places, and it always applies. </p><p>Note: Full/bright moons they will be out feeding all night, and would sometime go back to the bedding area before dawn. No luck those days unless I bumped them out of the bedding area.</p><p>Just my observations.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="R2rr, post: 1404988, member: 104785"] Absolutely, based on my observations. These lessons I learned while archery hunting (before compound bows) beginning at age 12. They still hold true elsewhere. I began deer hunting alone young, and "my" area was an all but un-hunted little ridge with a volcanic bluff nose. The inside of the bluff was a treed bowl with lots of bedding areas. The outside was a semi-open feeding area. The deer would move from the bedding area in the AM according to the dawn. I had to arrive before dawn to get in position, in the pinch point under the bluff (they moved around the bluff nose, at/in the tree line). If the moon was out, and I arrived at usual "clock" time before dawn, I would be too late. The deer had moved to the big open feeding side ahead of me in the moonlight. With no moon or little moonlight, they were always on time (dawn time, not clock time). Every day. Every year. Never failed. I have applied this "lesson" for 46 more years, in lots of other places, and it always applies. Note: Full/bright moons they will be out feeding all night, and would sometime go back to the bedding area before dawn. No luck those days unless I bumped them out of the bedding area. Just my observations. [/QUOTE]
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