Upcoming Cold Front 11/11-11/12

[UTGrad]

I've been watching the timing on the next cold front. It very well could be a dynamite weekend coming up. Currently, rain is supposed to move out Friday. Saturday and Sunday will be post front clear and colder.

If this forecast timing holds up, this weekend will be perfect and deer should be on their feet.

 

[rem270]

I sure hope so. I felt like I was hunt in September this afternoon.

 

[Lincoln Co Archer]

Hopefully so! Movement has been lackluster on my place.

 

[philsanchez76]

I've been watching the timing on the next cold front. It very well could be a dynamite weekend coming up. Currently, rain is supposed to move out Friday. Saturday and Sunday will be post front clear and colder.

If this forecast timing holds up, this weekend will be perfect and deer should be on their feet.

I think you're right! I got access to hunt a farm in Missouri this next weekend and looks to be perfect!

 

[redblood]

I've been watching the timing on the next cold front. It very well could be a dynamite weekend coming up. Currently, rain is supposed to move out Friday. Saturday and Sunday will be post front clear and colder.

If this forecast timing holds up, this weekend will be perfect and deer should be on their feet.

I think monday and tuesday of next week will be the days. Looks like a stout northwind behind that front. I have found that 48 hours after a strong front is best, once the winds die down

 

[philsanchez76]

Hopefully so! Movement has been lackluster on my place.

All my cameras have been completely dead

 

[tonybart55]

Hopefully so! Movement has been lackluster on my place.

Man I am glad to know it's not just me. All I've been seeing on Facebook and whatnot is that deer here in Tn are running crazy. It's been super quiet and still on the place I hunt and I was getting a bit discouraged.

 

[megalomaniac]

Weather is only relevant before the prerut. Once the first does come in, it doesn't matter if it's 30 deg or 80 deg.. rain or shine. You can't change biology.

Nov 10th is the day the first doe comes in on my farms. Nov 15th is the magical day. It's full on Nov 18th. Same thing year after year, regardless of the weather.

Don't get me wrong, I'd rather it be cold, but weather isn't going to Trump biology.

 

[redblood]

hard to get exxited about a cold front where the temp are still almost 70, after the front passes through.

 

[deerfever]

The rut will happen no matter what but a lot of what happens is at night during these heat spells it seems to me. I do remember years ago it was so hot that I was putting my stand around a tree for the evening hunt sweating in short sleeves and thinking why are you even out here. Doe comes running by with one of the biggest bucks I have ever seen in tow. I can still see that deer to this day in my mind but I had no way to get a shot he was moving. But yep ,no doubt the cold weather will help with daytime movement. Bring it on!

 

[74MOPAR]

Man I hope it turns on Saturday here. This weekend was the worst so far this year. Like to catch one cruising Saturday morning.

 

[chris1976]

Weather is only relevant before the prerut. Once the first does come in, it doesn't matter if it's 30 deg or 80 deg.. rain or shine. You can't change biology.

Nov 10th is the day the first doe comes in on my farms. Nov 15th is the magical day. It's full on Nov 18th. Same thing year after year, regardless of the weather.

Don't get me wrong, I'd rather it be cold, but weather isn't going to Trump biology.

I disagree with your first statement. After 40 years of hunting deer nothing will discourage daytime deer movement like unseasonably hot temps. All other things being equal you will see much more movement on cold high pressure days than you will on hot days. Can you kill a buck chasing a doe on November 13 at noon when it's 80 degrees? Sure but it's the exception and not the rule. Weather matters even during the peak of the rut.

 

[Andy S.]

You can't change biology.

True, but with with 10 hours of daylight and 14 hours of darkness (and typically cooler temps), most of the activity will occur at night. That is what I (and many others) have witnessed last 20+ years here in SW TN when the temps rise above average in November. For the remainder of deer season, days are getting shorter, and nights are getting longer, all in favor of the deer.

 

[Andy S.]

I disagree with your first statement. After 40 years of hunting deer nothing will discourage daytime deer movement like unseasonably hot temps. All other things being equal you will see much more movement on cold high pressure days than you will on hot days. Can you kill a buck chasing a doe on November 13 at noon when it's 80 degrees? Sure but it's the exception and not the rule. Weather matters even during the peak of the rut.

Agree 110%, especially with mildly to heavily pressured deer. Now my neighborhood deer, they will show themselves at dusk/dawn with most any weather.

 

[Andy S.]

I sure hope so. I felt like I was hunt in September this afternoon.

Local weather guy just said this week will feel like end of September for a lot of areas.

 

[UTGrad]

I am in the camp that believes the timing won't change for the rut, but the warm temps will just keep them moving at night. My trail cameras have been slow except for at night.

I'm going to mow and hit golf balls this week. Deer season starts again the next cold front.

 

[Kevin]

Im hoping the rain pushes out around noon Friday. Middle kid's birthday is Saturday, so I have party duty Saturday most of the day. Friday evening and Sunday pre-church seem like my best times, also the north wind on both those days helps where I'll be sitting.

 

[double browtine]

I will be off work 10 Nov thru 14 Nov so I'm hoping the weather will finally cool off some, and hopefully stay that way till January!

 

[UTGrad]

Just read the long term forecast discussion from the NWS office in Nashville. It looks like after this brief cool down coming this weekend, temps might warm up again next week.

 

[DeerCamp]

Weather is only relevant before the prerut. Once the first does come in, it doesn't matter if it's 30 deg or 80 deg.. rain or shine. You can't change biology.

Nov 10th is the day the first doe comes in on my farms. Nov 15th is the magical day. It's full on Nov 18th. Same thing year after year, regardless of the weather.

Don't get me wrong, I'd rather it be cold, but weather isn't going to Trump biology.

I still see a huge difference in daylight activity during the rut if the weather is cold vs abnormally warm. I don't doubt that the breeding is still taking place.

But the daylight activity seems to vary pretty drastically with weather.

 

[Antler Daddy]

Sounds great to me!

 

[Soft Talker]

Weather is only relevant before the prerut. Once the first does come in, it doesn't matter if it's 30 deg or 80 deg.. rain or shine. You can't change biology.

Nov 10th is the day the first doe comes in on my farms. Nov 15th is the magical day. It's full on Nov 18th. Same thing year after year, regardless of the weather.

Don't get me wrong, I'd rather it be cold, but weather isn't going to Trump biology.

So not Nov 9, or maybe Nov 11, but absolutely Nov. 10 is for sure, when the FIRST doe comes into full blown heat on your , how many hundred acres of farms. God himself could not predict that. You funny.

 

[C1295]

I didn't even go this weekend I know you cant kill them from the couch but this weather is awful... especially when your lugging yourself back on public land.

 

[UTGrad]

Ignore this dude Soft Talker. He's like the one person in the crowd that tries to be loud and funny at a comedy show.

 

[backyardtndeer]

Late this week should be really good here. Just need the right deer to move in.

 

[Soft Talker]

Ignore this dude Soft Talker. He's like the one person in the crowd that tries to be loud and funny at a comedy show.

This is an honest question, for anyone , for that matter. How in the hell, can someone say with a straight face, that on their free range, low fence property, they know exactly, to the day, when their 1rst doe is going to come into estrus. Is he physically keeping tabs on EVERY single doe that may be on these properties, at any given time. Absolutely impossible. Just pointing out the obvious, in a low voice, without yelling

 

[Flintlocksforme]

I changed Tuesday-Wednesday to next Monday-Wednesday. Hope to be stacking them by then. About a mile out of Buffalo River Unit 2 I saw a nice 8 standing in the middle of the road. I stopped to look for a doe and there was one to my left. She slowly walked away up a hill and a really nice 10 point that I didn't see at first followed her up the hill with his nose near her rear like the "Tink's Logo" at 1 o'clock on Saturday afternoon.

 

[Soft Talker]

I will agree with ol mega on the biology though. Hot or cold, day or night, if Does are full blown, there will be bucks, mature bucks, chasing them down to breed. Cold weather will definitely turn it wide open, but heat is not going to shut it off

 

[wsm]

The only thing hot weather turns off is me ,like it a little cooler than this .

 

[Ski]

Once the first does come in, it doesn't matter if it's 30 deg or 80 deg.. rain or shine. You can't change biology.

That's been exactly my experience as well. A hot doe will be hounded & bred regardless of weather. She's only hot for 24hrs and the weather doesn't pause for her. If she's hot the bucks will have her on her feet and they'll be after her until one gets the the prize. Could be midnight could be noon. Could be 8* could be 80*. Doesn't matter.