Barometric pressure

[Ladys man]

This is something I've never really kept up with but what's the deal with pressure vs deer movement?

 

[backyardtndeer]

Pressure dropping is supposed to equate to better movement, particularly when the pressure gets around 30.

 

[mayberryrick]

Well that's what it is now and I've been in the stand since 1:30 and ain't seen a deer yet haha

 

[bowhunterfanatic]

My personal observation is that high pressure is your friend. 30.25 and up means I need to be in a tree!

 

[Rakkin6]

If i am not mistaken the sweet spot is 29.90-30.30. With 30.10-30.30 optimal

 

[backyardtndeer]

Well that's what it is now and I've been in the stand since 1:30 and ain't seen a deer yet haha

They don't seem to be moving here either. Squirrels aren't even very active.

 

[rem270]

Never paid any attention or even know how to look at barometric pressure. I just hunt. I've killed deer in warm temps and wind where you'd think they wouldn't be moving. And have not seen deer on a perfect, no wind cold day. Deer are going to move regardless. Where at and what time no one knows.

 

[dsa5455]

Thought I had the perfect morning. Saw two small does. Not to much squirrel activity until a stray cat came walking by. Just dead.

 

[Ladys man]

Never paid any attention or even know how to look at barometric pressure. I just hunt. I've killed deer in warm temps and wind where you'd think they wouldn't be moving. And have not seen deer on a perfect, no wind cold day. Deer are going to move regardless. Where at and what time no one knows.

These are my thoughts as well, but I try to play the wind. Just curious if pressure ever played into anything, as I've never kept tract of this.

 

[rem270]

These are my thoughts as well, but I try to play the wind. Just curious if pressure ever played into anything, as I've never kept tract of this.

I see people on the FB hunting pages all the time asking "deer cast shows there won't be movement tomorrow, is it worth even going?". No dude, just stay home because your deer cast says it'll sucks. That stuff just irks me lol. I have multiple stand locations set up for wind direction. If I have a chance I'm hunting. I'm 37 but guess behind the times on deer cast, kill plots, feed trees, thermal hubs, day walking, and all those other lingos.

 

[Apostolic Outdoors]

If i am not mistaken the sweet spot is 29.90-30.30. With 30.10-30.30 optimal

I prefer 30.06 myself.

 

[deerhunter10]

I pay attention to it. But not as much as other things. But I do like high pressure. It's on weather bug just scroll down. Speaking of deer cast I don't pay for it at all. Just have the free version for fun. It's pretty comical how wrong it is and how often it's wrong.

 

[Ski]

It's not necessarily the pressure as much as it is the circumstances dictating it. Most times pressure spikes come after a weather front moves out, so it coincides with weather conditions stabilizing. Same in reverse but to lesser extent. As a front is moving in, pressure drops.

It's been my experience that a spike in pressure following a cold front is the best. It usually means a calm, cold, bright, bluebird morning. When the barometric pressure and temperature match, you'd best be in the woods.

 

[Bear15]

I love high pressure days. 30.3 is optimal. I never let it stop me from going and I hunt more than most but there is absolutely something to those high pressure days. …and DeerCast is also a great tool. I still go on days it shows bad or poor but usually those are pretty slow days. I have killed on poor days though but when it says good or great it usually is. Mark Drury would tell you the same.

 

[WTNBowHunter]

there is no research (credible collar studies) that supports significant movement regarding barometric pressure. or moon for that matter

 

[Snake]

Never paid any attention or even know how to look at barometric pressure. I just hunt. I've killed deer in warm temps and wind where you'd think they wouldn't be moving. And have not seen deer on a perfect, no wind cold day. Deer are going to move regardless. Where at and what time no one knows.

This ^^^ deer has got to eat....don't guess they look at the barometer they just listen to their gut Now with said I think the moon plays a part .

 

[Mcboom]

Fish when the pressure is dropping and hunt when the pressure is rising. I love deer hunting on those blue sky o cloud days

 

[timberjack86]

They were moving really good this evening right before dark. Saw them in several fields in Polk County. Should have been hunting

 

[270MONTS]

I don't know what the pressure is today. But at 2:40 this afternoon leaving work. I saw a buck chasing a doe across a field. In arlington off of 385.

 

[270MONTS]

Then saw several more fields that have quit a few deer in them. They were definitely out today

 

[74MOPAR]

So what does it look like for tomorrow morning?

 

[Deer Assassin]

Ditto rem 270

Just hunt

 

[deerhunter10]

So what does it look like for tomorrow morning?

Good. But as i said above it just is one thing I look at and to me not the most important. I have also found that it seems to matter more for evening hunts later in the season when they are hitting food a lot more. At the end of the day it's just fronts and what it does before, during and when it pushes out. I think it has been exaggerated a bit in the hunting world.

 

[megalomaniac]

All this is for feeding deer. Rutting deer ignore temps, moon phase, barometric pressure.

 

[WTNBowHunter]

All this is for feeding deer. Rutting deer ignore temps, moon phase, barometric pressure.

agree! temps affect what we as hunters see during the rut, deer still do deer stuff.

 

[WTNBowHunter]

saying it differently than my first post in this thread....patterning deer according to moon phase and barometric pressure is a waste of time