Temperature:
After nearly twenty years of dissecting these data, there is absolutely no question that temperature reigns supreme as the weather factor that drives daytime whitetail movement. It will override rain, clouds, wind, and yes, even the rut. As you have discerned from this book about whitetails, if the weather is warm, I simply do not hunt. In Alabama, it makes that much of a difference. I’ve hunted in Texas a little, and it is actually possible to see good deer there in warm weather. But even there, let the temperature drop thirty degrees, and the number and quality of animals soar. Now, do hunters take deer, even good ones, during spells of warm weather? Of course they do. But I don’t play that game. That kind of hunting is supported by the same nonsense upon which the lottery is based. When you plop down your money against the lottery systems of the world, you will be consistently defeated. And the more you play, the more consistently you will be defeated! Why do people do such foolish things? It’s like the old adage from Albert Einstein that suggested, “Insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over, but continuing to expect a different result.” Once I realized what my odds of taking a deer in unseasonably warm weather really was, I simply stopped doing the same stupid thing over and over, expecting a different result.
