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[Mike Belt]

Hunting with temps in the single or minus digits is for Canada. I don't hunt Canada. I cut my hunt to a short 2 hours this morning after seeing nothing while sitting 22 feet up a tree in direct wind. The weather is predicted to stay the same for the remainder of hunting season. You never know but I figure if I can't kill him during prime time then I'm probably not going to now. This morning may have been my last hunt for the season.

 

[Mike Belt]

Was set up between bedding areas this morning. Bookoos of buck sign. Should have been there at the beginning of rifle. I will be next year. If this weather persists and I hunt again I may flip over to afternoon hunts.

 

[JeepKuntry]

I'm wanting to get out there, but the temps are keeping me in. I've been sick for about a week, and the last thing I want is to go back out to soon and this crap to start over. I may put in an afternoon hunt depending on the wind.

 

[duckriver]

Same here. I made it until 9 without seeing a thing and usually I'll see 5 or so does at first light. That was probably my last morning hunt of the year. I'll stick to afternoons .

 

[wsm]

I have been sick myself hope everyone is feeling better,evening hunt sounds good.What time are you guys going out?

 

[duckriver]

I'll get in the stand at 2

 

[cbhunter]

I never have much luck in the mornings when it gets this cold. Late season fields in the afternoons are a diff story though. They seem to get back into regular feeding patterns this late in the year. Great time to catch a good buck out in the open.

 

[Gravey]

I climbed in the stand yesterday morning at 8:00 sitting on a food plot. Sat all day and didn't see a deer til 4:15 and saw 4 small bucks and 2 does in the next hour. Was gonna shoot a doe and the button buck ran both out of the field. The day before there were 9 there at 2:00 when a buddy of mine walked past it. You just never know what they're gonna do or when they're gonna do it. Another buddy pulled a camera card yesterday and there was an 11-pt we hope makes it in another plot at 4:30 Christmas afternoon.

 

[TJS209]

This cold and late in the season I pretty much hunt afternoons exclusively over CRP fields and foot plots. If I do go in the morning, I'm in no hurry to get there.

 

[chris1976]

FOOD


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[csi-tech]

I just shot a 10 point Christmas Eve. The foodplots in the area are tall and untouched. My deer's stomach had nothing but acorns in it. I think the odds are actually great right now. I killed mine at 7:30am. I'd hunt the oaks. They are back with other bucks it seems.

 

[pb10point]

Right now is the best time of the year. I have passed on small bucks all year and killed a 8 point first thing Monday morning. I have a corn field and soy bean field and they are heating up with the acorns about gone. I will be hitting it harder the rest of the season than I have so far.

 

[catman529]

I'm excited we got cold weather for late season. Gets em moving by the herd and showing up in fields on areas that were pressured earlier in the season. It's a lot of fun.


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[MR Yote]

Mike!

This is the kind of weather that pushes deer to feed. Where they have to feed to stay warm. IMO, you are missing out on the best chance to tag a mature buck outside of the 3 week window before during and after peak breeding.

Single digit temps for us are our advantage, especially in the afternoons.

Do you have a food source you can set up on, or perhaps a stand in between thick bedding and a food source?

x2 Catman, I was hunting a shelled corn field that had whole ears everywhere the combine missed & saw 16 deer. One was a 3.5 yr old 8 pt, I was meat hunting but could not get a shot due to surrounding houses. 7 does in a group ran across a bean field & only stopped running when they got to the corn.

 

[fairchaser]

If I wasn't tagged out, I'd be out there in my Canadian outerwear hunting instead of writing crazy comments on TNDeer. I'm going nutz! :bash:

 

[muddyboots]

Yes sir this the weather we need. It's just late. After the frost burns off until dark they can move. I've killed several bucks this late in the year with a steady north wind. It's feast or famine this time of year. Hang in there.

 

[csi-tech]

If I wasn't tagged out, I'd be out there in my Canadian outerwear hunting instead of writing crazy comments on TNDeer. I'm going nutz! :bash:

It's killing me too. I am offering to accompany my buddy who hasn't tagged out. I told him I'd call some coyotes in and we could sit together...................Crickets.

 

[fairchaser]

If I wasn't tagged out, I'd be out there in my Canadian outerwear hunting instead of writing crazy comments on TNDeer. I'm going nutz! :bash:

It's killing me too. I am offering to accompany my buddy who hasn't tagged out. I told him I'd call some coyotes in and we could sit together...................Crickets.

I've offered to go with my buddies to video their hunts and all I get is crickets too! I hope I can make it to turkey season.

 

[JJ3]

I think afternoon hunts look great through the weekend here in the southwest. That is when I would go (if I wasn't tagged out). Not as cold as the morning, but a good chance to see them up on their feet before dark.

 

[cecil30-30]

I had the chance to go this morning, with 4 deer in the freezer, I decided to sleep in. In my area odds are very slim of seeing a shooter buck this late in the season. If I had some sort of ag field or green field to hunt over I probably would hunt the afternoon, but I don't. I'll probably go this weekend. Gonna be just as cold.

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