#1701432 - 01/01/10 03:14 PM
Full moon and wind
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basset
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I greeted the new year in the stand this morning - didn't see a one, moon was full and the wind was blowing hard. Think that kept the deer on their beds, or was I just in the wrong place at the wrong time?
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#1701443 - 01/01/10 03:17 PM
Re: Full moon and wind
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RUGER
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Many people will tell you that hunting a full moon is useless.
I disagree, I have killed some good bucks on the full moon.
Normally, however, if it is going to happen it will happen EARLY.
I usually hunt about an hour and a half in the mornings and the same in the evenings.
I usually kill very early in the morning or the last couple of minutes of the evening.
Many times I don't see anything though.
Wind just sucks period.
I have my best luck hunting high winds still hunting around, along logging roads or peeping over into fields.
I think they like to get out in the middle of fields where they can see better since their smell is diminished somewhat due to scent being scattered so badly and EVERYTHING in the woods is moving constantly.
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#1701523 - 01/01/10 03:50 PM
Re: Full moon and wind
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HuntingDicksonDTC
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Same here , did not see a thing. was windy for sure this morning.
I have only taken a couple deer on a full moon mornings.
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#1701569 - 01/01/10 04:02 PM
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tbam
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I saw a ton this morning....at about 130 or 2......
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#1701978 - 01/01/10 06:54 PM
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Football Hunter
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On the road all day today,didnt see one
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#1702119 - 01/01/10 07:40 PM
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de novo
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zero on my stand
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#1702131 - 01/01/10 07:44 PM
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Zero this morning, but you are right Ruger I killed a doe about 10 minutes before legal dark this evening.
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#1702318 - 01/01/10 08:44 PM
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basset
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Dickson, I wasn't too far from you - off 100 west of Fairview. on the stand at six-thirty, finally got cold and went home about nine; just went to Wal-Mart for some thicker insulated thermals and will try again tomorrow, starting midmorning.
Edited by basset (01/01/10 08:45 PM)
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#1702469 - 01/01/10 09:39 PM
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megalomaniac
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saw 8 this afternoon in MS including a nice 15" inside spread 8 ptr who was 2.5
but of course our rut is just now starting to kick in
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#1703472 - 01/02/10 04:33 PM
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Three of us hunted the last three days and didn't see a deer.
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