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What is the #1 Calendar Date to Be in the Woods?
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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5741824" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Love the data Tellico4x4! In addition, love that you pointed out how certain dates can skew the results due to the number of people hunting (holiday dates, etc.).</p><p></p><p>I see the same thing in my data. Below is a graph of daily harvest<strong> rates</strong> (bucks killed per hunting hour) for the month of November. The vast majority of our hunting hours are during the month of November because that is the local peak rut month. But the peaks in harvest rates don't necessarily correspond with peak older buck movement or sightings. Other human factors are at play. The peak in harvest rates around Nov. 5 is due to that being close to opening day of MZ season. We do not bow hunt so this is the first time the deer have been hunted that year and opportunities are obviously higher on unhunted deer. The peak around Nov. 10-12 <strong>IS</strong> due to the peak in movement and sightings. Finally, the highest peak of all, around Nov. 26-28, is the weekend after Thanksgiving. At the beginning of MZ, some hunters have high standards for what they will shoot, hence they are passing up bucks. But by the weekend after Thanksgiving, the rut is winding down and hunters are getting desperate to not go buckless, so they are less picky and tend to shoot the first legal deer of opportunity then, leading to a peak in harvest rates.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5741824, member: 17"] Love the data Tellico4x4! In addition, love that you pointed out how certain dates can skew the results due to the number of people hunting (holiday dates, etc.). I see the same thing in my data. Below is a graph of daily harvest[B] rates[/B] (bucks killed per hunting hour) for the month of November. The vast majority of our hunting hours are during the month of November because that is the local peak rut month. But the peaks in harvest rates don't necessarily correspond with peak older buck movement or sightings. Other human factors are at play. The peak in harvest rates around Nov. 5 is due to that being close to opening day of MZ season. We do not bow hunt so this is the first time the deer have been hunted that year and opportunities are obviously higher on unhunted deer. The peak around Nov. 10-12 [B]IS[/B] due to the peak in movement and sightings. Finally, the highest peak of all, around Nov. 26-28, is the weekend after Thanksgiving. At the beginning of MZ, some hunters have high standards for what they will shoot, hence they are passing up bucks. But by the weekend after Thanksgiving, the rut is winding down and hunters are getting desperate to not go buckless, so they are less picky and tend to shoot the first legal deer of opportunity then, leading to a peak in harvest rates. [/QUOTE]
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