Temperature is the single best predictor of daytime movement. Temperature delta rather. Cold weather, or cooling weather, relative to current temp, drives deer movement.
Knowing nothing else, your odds are low tomorrow, compared to your odds if you were hunting after a cold front just passed through. Whether those odds are worth it, is up to you.
But the odds stink. No two ways about it. It’s worse than you think it is. Obviously, you can write a story about specifically why your odds are higher. If you can and want to do that, go hunt.
If you just want to quantify your chances, they suck.
Saw this more than most years while hunting this November. Weirdly warm days coming off below-freezing temps, bucks were up and at ‘em. Does seemed to be moving the same.Don't forget warming weather. That will get them moving, hunting a thaw.
Saw this more than most years while hunting this November. Weirdly warm days coming off below-freezing temps, bucks were up and at ‘em. Does seemed to be moving the same.
I’m in the same weather pattern you are & am not hunting in the morning like I had planned all week…… gonna try & squeeze out this afternoon & then wait on something better next weekI'm in SE VA. Not much below freezing temps yet. We really won't see those temps until Jan/Feb timeframe. This is a snapshot of the last few weeks.
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Also like this advice, sort of.
Deer will spend more time “not moving” in daylight hours on a warming trend.
Yes, I know in extreme cold climates, the opposite could be true. Not Virginia.
Warm, wet, humid, non deer daylight moving weather is a great time to go find out where they “live”. Or where they “bed”. I like to define it as where they are when they aren’t moving around in daylight hours.
go jump them out of their beds. Go find new bedding areas. Go find thick stuff. Go find the hidey holes.
But don’t think “I’m going look for a tree to hunt on a southwest wind today.”
Windy days are perfect for aggressive still-hunting or tracking out deer. Work upwind. I don't know if I'd want to be in a tree with 30mph gusts. Look at this as an opportunity to scout the property, and maybe kill something.