Hunting on a full moon.

[Jtaylor]

I've seen plenty on full moons in daylight hours on pressured public land. Deer eat, drink and sleep. Set up in those areas they prefer and you'll still see deer.

 

[GeoFish]

I was out scouting this morning. I saw3 deer on my way to my hunting area and 4 others walking around this morning.
I hunt when I can.

 

[seadonist]

Based on my faulty memory, on a full moon I would see more deer mid day and early evening.

Fully agree. If hunting a full moon, I go late during morning hunts or early on evening hunts but more often than not, I try to hunt from about 10 am till about 2 or 3:00


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[LAKY]

Drury brothers also hunt well managed farms for years. I think any us could put alot big ass bucks on ground, given a chance to hunt there. Just a thought. As John Eberhart says those are Hollywood deer.

They hunt small farms almost exclusively. They ditched the large properties for the most part quite a few years ago.

 

[Shapeshifter]

They hunt small farms almost exclusively. They ditched the large properties for the most part quite a few years ago.

I'm pretty sure that they are still well managed . Do you know if they these smaller farms? I wonder why they ditched the large farms?

 

[krub6b]

I'm pretty sure that they are still well managed . Do you know if they these smaller farms? I wonder why they ditched the large farms?

cheaper, let the local farmers own and farm the large farms, run your food plots on some smaller ones with better cover/less tillable acreage and still have huge deer that don't leave your property during season.

 

[LAKY]

I'm pretty sure that they are still well managed . Do you know if they these smaller farms? I wonder why they ditched the large farms?

Yes, they put in a lot of hard work on their farms. There was a bad EHD outbreak a while back. That can set back a local herd for a while. They felt having smaller farms scattered around gave them protection from that as well as gave them more opportunities on different bucks.

 

[Shapeshifter]

cheaper, let the local farmers own and farm the large farms, run your food plots on some smaller ones with better cover/less tillable acreage and still have huge deer that don't leave your property during season.

You ever watch some of the old Drury videos from back in the early 90s? Monster Bucks , I believe it was called. Those deer look nothing like the ones they're killing these days.

 

[Shapeshifter]

They definitely put in the hard work.

 

[krub6b]

Monster Bucks was Bill Jordan and Realtree, Dream Season is the Drury's series

 

[Shapeshifter]

You're right about that , but the Drury brothers also had a monster bucks video as as well as the dream season video. You check it out if ever get chance.

 

[Swampfox]

I like hunting the full moon. You don’t have to use the spotlight near as much.


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[hokiehunter373]

While that's true, those deer are still influenced by things like moon phase just like deer on a WMA or any other piece of property would be, they undoubtedly have less hunting pressure that affects their movement but I feel like if the Drury's or other Hollywood hunters can say that one moon phase creates more movement than others, there's something there for us to try and take away from it

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Right, both sets of deer aren't influenced by the moon. The Drury's are smart and effective deer hunters but just listen to their content. Years ago they got it in their heads that the full moon was the best to hunt. Now they specifically say that they just hunt the fringes or don't hunt at all until they have the right weather that aligns with the full moon. All the factors for that hunt are what they think is the best. Of course they keep killing deer around the full moon now and don't kill deer at other times because they dive into their best setups on full moon days and don't hunt other days. I'm sure if they hunted their same properties on opposite moons and opposite conditions they'd have very close to similar results. It's as I've said before on here, find what you believe in and attack. Your confidence creates kills.

 

[DB4x4]

MSU has run studies every way they can think of to see if the moon impacts movement. Domestic deer, wild deer, buck, does, trail camera studies, photos observation, tracking collar data...they've never found any reason to believe that the phases of the moon correlate with any change in deer activity.

Until they or an institution of similar caliber can prove otherwise, I see no reason to entertain the idea that moon phase matters for anything except fishing.

The moon affects the tides...

... High tide, low tide, saddle hunters washing their clothes in Tide, all the tides.