I'm surprised by that but believe you. I never intentionally hunted in rain but assumed the compromised vision/hearing is why deer would not be moving. I never was a mid-day hunter but routinely hear stories about why I should be. I'm probably gonna test both by seasons end 👍.
@@skrawny-clown-snatcherofth8651that's completely normal especially for a pregnant or post partum doe. Though one time during spring turkey I watched a doe snack the heads off an entire nest of hatchlings and that was somewhat disturbing. Natures prenatal vitamins 😅
@@ChronusFatherofAll love it im a avid hunter and I have a cattle ranch in Central texas I'm 100000% vegan animals are a myth after I learned how metal ruman animals are lol they are worse than big cats
This from an O.G. 1986 Monday shotgun season. Git to my buddies trailer he was passed out by the woodburner, raining cats an dogs just sheets straight down. Reds saying make coffee and sit down I'm sweating wearing full old school rain gear. Daylight is cracken and i was supposed to sit in the oak tree stand but it was his Dads land and has to wait. I look down towards the oak and 2 massive bucks walking along the fence line like it was a summer day. I ran in yelled bucks! Big bucks! All hell broke loose let me tell ya lol. Didn't get a shot at those but good times.
Same here. By far my favorite time to be in the woods. Helps knock down the scent and the noise and it's just awesome being in the woods with the rain.
@@rickstark85. I never miss a day of hunting. Iv hunted a ton of rain. As of last year. Im done with hunting in the rain. I never see shit and it ruins equipment. The only time I might think about it is in the rutt. Maybe
During a rainy hunt I noticed this. Buck was chasing some doe, this was happening in front of me in the woods. Every time a downpour came, the deer would stop and freeze. When it let up they went back to what they were doing. Every time the rain got hard they did this. They wouldn't blink, frozen stiff. All I could figure they didn't like not being able to hear.
I always hunt in the rain, it catches your scent and takes it to the ground. Your movement is concealed in the rain. And mature grasses taste like sprouts when it’s wet so deer are feeding. Plus deer love moving in the rain.
@@BG-bx4ey Your dog doesn’t smell odorous in the rain. You are comparing a wet dog in a dry house to a wet dog in the rain. Moisture in the air captures the scent molecules and takes it to the ground rather than it staying airborne. I’m only theorizing from my personal experience slip-stalking, still hunting in all weather conditions. Misty rain on cold days with little wind is awesome for hunting no matter what the solunar calendar says. Ask a coon hunter if the best time for dogs to find a hot trail is when the rain stops they know. That way they are not chasing cold trails from sunset, when it’s midnight. Just my experience on it, but if you hunt from a box stand over a feeder you might not have to apply this logic.
@@BG-bx4ey I walked face first into a little basket rack buck one rainy morning leaving the woods. He knew I was out of place but he couldn’t smell me so he eased off the trail and passed right on by about 15 yards from me standing in the middle of his scrape line.
@@lowenbrow643That's a cool hunt, but it doesn't mean what you thibk it means. Rain helps wick hundreds of times more scent off of you and the humid air makes scent in general more detectible to a deer's nose. It's still a good time to hunt bucks.
I remember my first deer ever, kept complaining to my pap that we weren’t gonna see anything because it was raining. Next thing you go 30 minutes after day light, hammer dropped and there laid my first harvest ever 😂
Who says if it’s raining you shouldn’t hunt? I’ve never heard anyone say this I’m my 36 years of hunting. I thought it was general knowledge that you SHOULD prioritize rainy days
I love hunting in the rain despite the lack of success I’ve had doing it, but I hate hunting in the extreme cold despite being pretty successful doing it, I wish it was the other way around lol.
all true, I have also found when sitting with the deer in my yard that I feed (non hunted deer) that they will shadow behind other animals, and use their sounds and movements to try and see if its safe, before the first one in the pack starts moving forward. Watching them at night, is like watching special ops teams navigate terrain they are so fkn cool.
I’ve always had dogs. #3 is def true. They will consider the dogs are in a confined area and stay close as possible when possible for their own safety precautions
seen them bed in rain and put their head under their fron shoulder. big rack bucks cannot do this . its why they like to lay in cut tree tops and under big leaf trees . a magnolia tree or a cut pine top is a good spot to check . for a bedding buck and cat tails always cat tails .
I've been hunting since I was 12 (32 years) and can say I have never heard of those 3 myths. Guess that's a good thing. I can say that designer "camo patterns" are a myth the clothing companies want you to believe. Especially while rifle hunting or hunting inside a blind. My biggest buck was shot at 30 yards with a Bear compound bow from Walmart, while wearing my work boots, jeans, and a Carhart brown jacket with a facemask on. I got off work after a 12 hour shift, ran out to the ladder stand, and shot him within 2 hours of getting to the tree.
Around my cavin. Almost All the big bucks I've seen 10 points in bigger are literally always running with a smaller buck like a really nice 8 point or a really big 6 point. Both nice mature animals. It's odd how they will run with another big buck like they have proven their dominance and status to each other and the more mature dominant one makes the smaller buck walk in front of them and they use each other. I've even seen it during rut and when then younger big buck gets spocy with or on a doe The more dominant buck puts him right back in his place real quick Then he will breed that dough in 2 days or 3 days later you will see them same 2 bucks walking with each other again It's the only place I've ever really noticed this but it's also extremely high pressure hunting area. During gun season there's literally a vehicle parked on the road every quarter of a mile. An opening day of done season it doesn't matter where you go in the woods there's someone within 300 yd of you. The shortest distance I went from the nearest road is 890 yd and I could still see someone in orange. This year I heard a 135 gunshots in the first hour of light in NW Lower Peninsula of Michigan in Manistee area. It is odd behavior, only thing I can think is the high hunting pressure has created this behavior.
My Big Buck was moving with 3 Doe through the swamp, and it was snowing.....a Beautiful Picture! Miss Hunting it was so Relaxing and Stress Free! 👍💯♥️🇺🇲
Ehhh. If you a spook a white tail from your spot they have an interdigital scent gland between their hooves. As they run away they’ll spray this gland letting all the deer know that they shouldn’t hang around there. Sure you might get one that comes back, but it’s highly unlikely
Another myth is if you can't be settled into stand an hour before first light you are late. I've killed dozens of deer over the years between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. as they get bumped into moving by other hunters exiting or entering the woods
Never heard any hunter say that deer don’t move in the rain so not sure where that myth came from, also you should always be precise with your shot regardless of weather
Bad weather is the best! Rain doesnt bother deer, get them to move. Wind keeps them out in the open because they dont like the branches falling in the timber and last, when its snowing, it makes it super easy to get on a buck and track him for a good shot opportunity!
Rain issue is dependent on the area you hunt. In my areas, whitetails bed down during the rain. Mules and blacktails are likely to be out in the rain unless it's too hard of a rain. In more open areas the deer are more likely moving. Elk don't care much for any weather.
I know the first two personally. Those drizzling days with overcast skies are some of the best and let you slip through the woulds like a ninja. The 2nd I've had deer around me jump up and take off cause a tree fell over. They're used to getting startled. If you can mimic the woods around you when you have to make a sound you will be just fine. Just never give the deer definitive proof you are present and you are good
I think rainy days have less movement. But are the best days to hunt. I’ll call of work on rainy days and go still hunt big woods. Can walk up on deer like it’s nothing.
Raining typically does mean the deer won't move. I know this from years of hunting experience. They can't hear predators and that makes them very nervous. Well fed deer will usually choose to ride out the rain and nibble browse by their beds than travel to major food sources. I've tried to hunt at least 20 rain days and in all those hunts I've only seen a small handful of does. Never a buck.
I think the rainy day thing may depend on your spot. I have never seen a single deer hunting in a moderate/heavy rain. But I’ve seen quite a few in a light rain. I’ve shot the most deer within a hr or two after it stops raining.
This👆 I beleive it also depends on species and cover. Mule deer seem to hold up/bed down or stick to timber when raining heavy. If you can time it to where you're out after it breaks up you'll usually see loads of deer.
Busted three myths with my first whitetail. -Deer don’t move in the rain. -Can’t use a muzzle loader in the rain. -Deer being pushed all day won’t move on their own until after dark.
Those big mature bucks are extremely smart I hunted a 20 pointer for 2 years before dropping him he always stayed out of range or would come in behind me till he finally messed up
I think this the rain hunting is heavily based on area. Where I grew up, if it rained, it rained heavy and hard for a while. The deer knew this too, and wouldn't move much. I can't tell you how many times I've seen deer bed down when it rains. Legit I've had nice clear mornings, 10-12 or even late as 2pm rolls around, have a huge storm roll in, you feel the air change, smell the rain, and it starts to poor. About 5-10 minutes into the rain I've had deer bed down in pines or denser wooded areas. Not move until the rain passes or starts to become a drizzle. In that area there were always heavy predator presence, wind, sometimes freezing temperatures at night, and certain areas of overpopulation, with high human presence nearby. Talking 30 degree temp difference or more. Pretty sure the deer were doing 2 things. First, letting themselves stay a lot dryer. Which is safer for them in the cold night time freezing temps. Also means they'll have a lower energy consumption being colder, and not moving around saves them energy too. I know they don't know this, but lots of animals instinctively do things based on evolution of animals that didn't do that. Then become learned behavior. Second, is safety. They have obviously a serious disadvantage in rain. Air doesn't travel as much and it more difficult to judge direction in rain. Especially with high wind. But their scent is easier to track on things in rain like the ground, brush, and leaves. Which makes it easier for predators to find them. Obviously they can't sense movement as easy because wind and rain make everything move. Then they also can't hear things as well. Creating noise everywhere. So truthfully I think that's the main reason they bed in the rain by me. They have a very high predator population. They can't see, hear or smell very well at all in those conditions. So when it rains if they bed down it makes their surroundings easier to interpret and see. Stops their smell from being left on everything, allows them to focus on what changes in their surroundings. Instead of their surroundings changing all the time by them moving. And they likely won't run into anything they don't want to because their nose can't pick up a predator or person 50 yards from their direction. Just what I've noticed in my area.
Deer (especially Blacktail) move in the rain because they need to feed to help keep warm, plus their senses of smell and hearing are weakened so they’ll spend more time in the open where they can use sight. Plus in my opinion predators move less in the rain
Never leave a stand because a deer busts you. I've seen deer snort at each other. Especially if a dominant buck is chasing either a doe.I've seen bucks 15 minutes after does have blown and carried on taking off. I also heard a buck coming for over 100 yards snorting like crazy over and over because he was being chased by another buck.
Have taken them is rain and snow, blood trails can become compromised in the rain from wash off though. Have had spooked deer come back through 30ins to an hour after them getting startled.
I almost exclusively hunt the rain and bad weather because I prefer spot and stalk/ still hunting on public land. You can become a ghost in the woods when it's raining and in public land bucks change their patterns so often that it's really a luck game sitting in a stand, private land is a different story cuz they stay more consistent
I had a mature 140 inch ten point patterned really well, hunted him once and he came in like usual but the wind swirled and he caught my scent, blew out of there, and never came back. Was killed by someone else a month later about 6 miles away. Mature deer are so much smarter than people think.
As long as it’s not pouring but a nice mist to light rain they move a ton. I missed a big buck in that weather earlier this year but luckily I shot an even bigger one a few weeks later to which it was my biggest buck scoring 118 when my previous biggest was like 96 3/8
Yes absolutely one time I was hunting the ground and i ran out of light the walk out to a field and bumped probably bumped over twenty deer. I sat them the next day and harvested the bigest deer of my life “193/3” 11 points
I hunt weather !!!! Im a still stalker &a large caliber pistol hunter & i never leave the ground ... Wind & rain are my favorite.... Snow is too easy in my opinion....
In my experience when it’s raining, the deer tend to be a little bit more lethargic, they are a prey, animal and respond to any little noise and the rain dampens the noise because everything is soaking wet and because of the rain itself.
The funny thing is I know people who spend hundreds on camouflage. I went hunting in blue jeans and a white jacket. I was able to get within about 25yrds of the deer and they looked right at me. I just stood still and didn’t move and they watched for maybe 30sec and started eating and moving again. It’s amazing how little you need to actually go deer hunting.
Ehh, with the rain thing I think it just depends. This year I got my 138 inch 10 point literally not even 5 minutes after it stopped raining here in PA archery season. I was soaked and hunted in the rain 2 days in a row and didn't see a deer while raining but no more than a minute or 2nafter the rain stopped, I'd see movement like crazy
I watched this very animated yearling run right underneath of my stand and jump and prance around for a bit and then run up to the crest of a hill to hang out with a four point. It was kind of cute, like he just wanted to hang out with the big kids!
Im an archer who hungs big public. Every pouring rain storm, I am in the woods. Last season, I spent 10 hours in the worst rain Ive seen in years. Had the biggest buck in my life come less than 10 yards away. Never knew I was there. And Im staring at the rack as I write this
Deer will feed before a rain and bed during the rain but if it rains more than 24 hrs or so they will feed In the rain, they don't like it though and will try to avoid it.. same thing with wind, wind actually spooks them they don't understand it.
If it's cold and rainy some will actually lay down in mud holes to slow the blood flow I lost one for 3 hrs Because of this.. it was crazy I finally found the mud hole and could see blood in water then tracks out of it.. I followed the tracks for 5 min before it bled again then when I saw the blood I looked up and he was laid up against a tree .. good shot just that deer was smart big 6 point love me some deer meat
There cleaver my dad shot his buck a while back before I got my deer and he said he found it alive and it pulled the arrow out of itself really amazing creatures
Right after the rain is better. And I'm in western Washington State... I know deer, and I know rain. big bucks are not necessarily solitary. Many hunters tell a story of taking a 4 point, Only to have an 6×7 step out a few minutes later! I think it's covered in the regulations under "Murphy's law"...
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Missed the biggest deer of my life in the rain. Best scent control you can get and covers noise and movement as well.
I'm surprised by that but believe you. I never intentionally hunted in rain but assumed the compromised vision/hearing is why deer would not be moving. I never was a mid-day hunter but routinely hear stories about why I should be. I'm probably gonna test both by seasons end 👍.
It's the same for humans...we don't chase tail when it's raining...just to lazy
@@kawirocket88 I don’t go out in torrential downpours obviously but a light rain or drizzle makes for the best sits. Get in nice and quiet.
@@AsocPaladin0016 👍
Rainy days are for still huntin. Killed more deer in rain and snow than I have on dry sunny days.
The shot of the big guy bedded and dozing off at the end is pure gold.
I love bad weather. That means less people go out.
Fewer people
All the smart people
I hunt weekdays when all of the working stiffs are working.😂
@@shanestauffer1624huh?? all the lazy ppl u mean 😂 because fresh rain or snow means the deer/elk are up and moving.. some of the best hunts tbh
But that also means fewer deer are pushed. Good and bad.
Everything that I know about deer, is that I don't know everything about deer. They do some of the most unexpected things.
Wait till you see one snack on a baby bird or a rabbit and your concerned on if you just shoot it and leave it or let it go
@@skrawny-clown-snatcherofth8651 Never seen exactly that. But I've seen them eat fish and roadkill.
@@skrawny-clown-snatcherofth8651that's completely normal especially for a pregnant or post partum doe. Though one time during spring turkey I watched a doe snack the heads off an entire nest of hatchlings and that was somewhat disturbing. Natures prenatal vitamins 😅
@@ChronusFatherofAll love it im a avid hunter and I have a cattle ranch in Central texas I'm 100000% vegan animals are a myth after I learned how metal ruman animals are lol they are worse than big cats
@@ChronusFatherofAlljeaus😂😂😂
Usually during heavy rain deer bed down, but after the rain they get up and move. Also, when it’s sprinkling then they will also move.
This from an O.G. 1986 Monday shotgun season. Git to my buddies trailer he was passed out by the woodburner, raining cats an dogs just sheets straight down. Reds saying make coffee and sit down I'm sweating wearing full old school rain gear. Daylight is cracken and i was supposed to sit in the oak tree stand but it was his Dads land and has to wait. I look down towards the oak and 2 massive bucks walking along the fence line like it was a summer day. I ran in yelled bucks! Big bucks! All hell broke loose let me tell ya lol. Didn't get a shot at those but good times.
* If the rut is in full swing, the bucks will move. If not a hard rain will cause them to bed up.
My dad likes getting in the stand after heavy rains
@@charlessmith4242if they are in rut they could careless about the weather their gonna chase the does no matter what
I've walked up on so many deer as a hiker, that I've never understood sitting in a blind or stand. Just go find em lol Spot and stalk.
If it’s raining I’m going. Love the rain hunts
Same here. By far my favorite time to be in the woods. Helps knock down the scent and the noise and it's just awesome being in the woods with the rain.
@@damo837 better if it's snow.
Completely agree with all three. Especially the rain. There is no better time to hunt than a rainy day.
Never seen a single deer in all of my years hunting in the rain. Not one in dozens of hunts.
Even fishing too
@@rickstark85. I never miss a day of hunting. Iv hunted a ton of rain. As of last year. Im done with hunting in the rain. I never see shit and it ruins equipment. The only time I might think about it is in the rutt. Maybe
@@MarthaTorres-gu7vd I'm with you bro. There's no point in it.
yup
The rain!!! It also hides sound and some scent as well. I'm one of the few in my area who will see a rainy day as a beautiful hunting day!!
I've hunted for 40 years and had very little success during the rain. Just after the rain is a good time.
I've never killed a deer during the rain, and I agree, right after it rains, I've had a lot of luck .
I have a couple areas, where the deer simply don't move for a few days after a rain.
They still have to eat and a friend of mine killed one of the greatest bucks I have ever seen on the last day in a absolute downpour
@@davidsignor7931 Most big deer are killed by accident anyway.
@markburrell2778 very true it's not all about being a great hunter but alot about luck meaning being at the right spot at the right time
My best success on bucks was during light misting rain. Best time to hunt.
I love hunting in a light misty rain because 1 it's a lot quieter when your walking like I do a lot of still hunting 2 they can't smell you as good
During a rainy hunt I noticed this. Buck was chasing some doe, this was happening in front of me in the woods. Every time a downpour came, the deer would stop and freeze. When it let up they went back to what they were doing. Every time the rain got hard they did this. They wouldn't blink, frozen stiff. All I could figure they didn't like not being able to hear.
I always hunt in the rain, it catches your scent and takes it to the ground. Your movement is concealed in the rain. And mature grasses taste like sprouts when it’s wet so deer are feeding. Plus deer love moving in the rain.
BINGO.
Just wrote a post about my experience.
Deer cant see you nor smell you.
And the big matures will be out munching the newly sprouted good stuff.
Rain does not "catch scent" lmao... think of yourself as a wet dog, except a deer's nose is 1,000x stronger than yours.
@@BG-bx4ey Your dog doesn’t smell odorous in the rain. You are comparing a wet dog in a dry house to a wet dog in the rain. Moisture in the air captures the scent molecules and takes it to the ground rather than it staying airborne. I’m only theorizing from my personal experience slip-stalking, still hunting in all weather conditions. Misty rain on cold days with little wind is awesome for hunting no matter what the solunar calendar says. Ask a coon hunter if the best time for dogs to find a hot trail is when the rain stops they know. That way they are not chasing cold trails from sunset, when it’s midnight. Just my experience on it, but if you hunt from a box stand over a feeder you might not have to apply this logic.
@@BG-bx4ey I walked face first into a little basket rack buck one rainy morning leaving the woods. He knew I was out of place but he couldn’t smell me so he eased off the trail and passed right on by about 15 yards from me standing in the middle of his scrape line.
@@lowenbrow643That's a cool hunt, but it doesn't mean what you thibk it means. Rain helps wick hundreds of times more scent off of you and the humid air makes scent in general more detectible to a deer's nose.
It's still a good time to hunt bucks.
I remember my first deer ever, kept complaining to my pap that we weren’t gonna see anything because it was raining. Next thing you go 30 minutes after day light, hammer dropped and there laid my first harvest ever 😂
Who says if it’s raining you shouldn’t hunt? I’ve never heard anyone say this I’m my 36 years of hunting. I thought it was general knowledge that you SHOULD prioritize rainy days
It’s called not getting soaked and keeping your equipment from rusting
I love hunting in the rain despite the lack of success I’ve had doing it, but I hate hunting in the extreme cold despite being pretty successful doing it, I wish it was the other way around lol.
Hunting in the rain sucks period. It’s also not necessary to be successful so why do it?
@@coewhatI bought a stainless gun specifically so I’d be less likely to rust when I hunt in the rain and snow
@@coewhatno hunter are you
There’s nothing better than the rut in the rain
@monkejr4353awesome!! I'm happy for u. How many points was it ? Wish u could upload a pic.
all true, I have also found when sitting with the deer in my yard that I feed (non hunted deer) that they will shadow behind other animals, and use their sounds and movements to try and see if its safe, before the first one in the pack starts moving forward. Watching them at night, is like watching special ops teams navigate terrain they are so fkn cool.
My first deer i took this year was during a storm! Loads of wind, rain and snow. Dress for the weather and get out there!
I love hunting in the rain I always see deer
Absolutely rain. Love rain. Scent, sound,sight is all disrupted.
Rain is when they will feed on shrubbery.
I’ve always had dogs. #3 is def true. They will consider the dogs are in a confined area and stay close as possible when possible for their own safety precautions
heavy rain deer bed down in thick cover. you will catch them moving when rain lightens up or stops
set up a stand in a pine Grove for rainy/snowy days, and let them get used to it. you'll definitely be thankful you did
seen them bed in rain and put their head under their fron shoulder.
big rack bucks cannot do this .
its why they like to lay in cut tree tops and under big leaf trees .
a magnolia tree or a cut pine top is a good spot to check . for a bedding buck and cat tails always cat tails .
When a storm front moves in,i head out,love hunting rain storms, except when extremely windy be careful of falling limbs
I don’t care if they move in the rain, I’m not going! 😂😂
ye they can move i aint lmfaooo
1 st place for those say they hunt at NIGHT go ahead and try hunting at NIGHT in Texas you will go to jail it's illegal !
The bigger buck that I shot always hung out with smaller bucks and would wait for them to go in front of him so he knew it was safe
I've been hunting since I was 12 (32 years) and can say I have never heard of those 3 myths. Guess that's a good thing. I can say that designer "camo patterns" are a myth the clothing companies want you to believe. Especially while rifle hunting or hunting inside a blind. My biggest buck was shot at 30 yards with a Bear compound bow from Walmart, while wearing my work boots, jeans, and a Carhart brown jacket with a facemask on. I got off work after a 12 hour shift, ran out to the ladder stand, and shot him within 2 hours of getting to the tree.
Around my cavin. Almost All the big bucks I've seen 10 points in bigger are literally always running with a smaller buck like a really nice 8 point or a really big 6 point. Both nice mature animals. It's odd how they will run with another big buck like they have proven their dominance and status to each other and the more mature dominant one makes the smaller buck walk in front of them and they use each other. I've even seen it during rut and when then younger big buck gets spocy with or on a doe The more dominant buck puts him right back in his place real quick Then he will breed that dough in 2 days or 3 days later you will see them same 2 bucks walking with each other again It's the only place I've ever really noticed this but it's also extremely high pressure hunting area. During gun season there's literally a vehicle parked on the road every quarter of a mile. An opening day of done season it doesn't matter where you go in the woods there's someone within 300 yd of you. The shortest distance I went from the nearest road is 890 yd and I could still see someone in orange. This year I heard a 135 gunshots in the first hour of light in NW Lower Peninsula of Michigan in Manistee area. It is odd behavior, only thing I can think is the high hunting pressure has created this behavior.
Precipitation also makes your steps more quiet👍
I shot my 8pt buck during the rain on opening day and fall at 30 yards from me. No tracking
Some of my best hunts happened in the rain. use to sit in an old cattle feeder that had a roof on it to stay dry.
My Big Buck was moving with 3 Doe through the swamp, and it was snowing.....a Beautiful Picture! Miss Hunting it was so Relaxing and Stress Free! 👍💯♥️🇺🇲
Ehhh. If you a spook a white tail from your spot they have an interdigital scent gland between their hooves. As they run away they’ll spray this gland letting all the deer know that they shouldn’t hang around there. Sure you might get one that comes back, but it’s highly unlikely
Another myth is if you can't be settled into stand an hour before first light you are late. I've killed dozens of deer over the years between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. as they get bumped into moving by other hunters exiting or entering the woods
I don't know why you use the stand but if you're able to get your lazy butt out of the stand and do a spot and stock like a real man.
Has nothing to do imaginary hunters leaving or entering. Noon is a magical time
Never heard any hunter say that deer don’t move in the rain so not sure where that myth came from, also you should always be precise with your shot regardless of weather
exactly Ive walked up on Bucks in the rain at 20 yards.
The rain helps keep your scent down and if it’s down pouring they do seem to bed down until it lightens up
Bad weather is the best! Rain doesnt bother deer, get them to move. Wind keeps them out in the open because they dont like the branches falling in the timber and last, when its snowing, it makes it super easy to get on a buck and track him for a good shot opportunity!
I missed my first shot at a doe. 5 minutes later a much bigger doe came at around 200 yards and I shot it.
Romans 8:18 “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us”
Upstate NY here. I've found the deer don't move much on rainy days. I've found this to be the case many times.
My new favorite is hunting in the snow.
Just got done with a hunt during a medium-light rain. Best sound and scent cover, and saw six doe, a spike, and dropped my first buck this evening!
Rain issue is dependent on the area you hunt. In my areas, whitetails bed down during the rain. Mules and blacktails are likely to be out in the rain unless it's too hard of a rain. In more open areas the deer are more likely moving. Elk don't care much for any weather.
I know the first two personally. Those drizzling days with overcast skies are some of the best and let you slip through the woulds like a ninja. The 2nd I've had deer around me jump up and take off cause a tree fell over. They're used to getting startled. If you can mimic the woods around you when you have to make a sound you will be just fine. Just never give the deer definitive proof you are present and you are good
Here in WA, I don’t bother going out if it’s sunny.
I think rainy days have less movement.
But are the best days to hunt. I’ll call of work on rainy days and go still hunt big woods. Can walk up on deer like it’s nothing.
Raining typically does mean the deer won't move. I know this from years of hunting experience. They can't hear predators and that makes them very nervous. Well fed deer will usually choose to ride out the rain and nibble browse by their beds than travel to major food sources. I've tried to hunt at least 20 rain days and in all those hunts I've only seen a small handful of does. Never a buck.
I think the rainy day thing may depend on your spot. I have never seen a single deer hunting in a moderate/heavy rain. But I’ve seen quite a few in a light rain. I’ve shot the most deer within a hr or two after it stops raining.
This👆 I beleive it also depends on species and cover. Mule deer seem to hold up/bed down or stick to timber when raining heavy. If you can time it to where you're out after it breaks up you'll usually see loads of deer.
And a mature buck will occasionally send one or two fawns out first on a baited field.
If they survive, he'll come out and feed
I shot my 12 point mounter when it was traveling with a 10 point for a while
I use a 7mm rem-mag. Or a marlin 30-30. One thing I’ve learned is as long as I hit the shoulder and heart/lungs it’s not going more then 100 yards
Hunting in the rain reduces sound and scent too!
nice. i actually learned a little from this. i will be hunting in the rain tmmrw now
Did you get one
As a Blacktail Deer hunter, I almost always hunt in the rain. They're called Rain Deer for a reason.
If you're a blacktail hunter that doesn't hunt in the rain. You might never be able to hunt at all LOL.
@@jacoblogsdon2850 - That is true.. Rain has never bothered me. It keeps everything green, and my black truck always looks sexy af.
Busted three myths with my first whitetail.
-Deer don’t move in the rain.
-Can’t use a muzzle loader in the rain.
-Deer being pushed all day won’t move on their own until after dark.
Two of the nicest Buck I've ever killed was in a pretty consistent rain not pouring but a consistent light rain
Those big mature bucks are extremely smart I hunted a 20 pointer for 2 years before dropping him he always stayed out of range or would come in behind me till he finally messed up
I think this the rain hunting is heavily based on area. Where I grew up, if it rained, it rained heavy and hard for a while. The deer knew this too, and wouldn't move much. I can't tell you how many times I've seen deer bed down when it rains. Legit I've had nice clear mornings, 10-12 or even late as 2pm rolls around, have a huge storm roll in, you feel the air change, smell the rain, and it starts to poor. About 5-10 minutes into the rain I've had deer bed down in pines or denser wooded areas. Not move until the rain passes or starts to become a drizzle.
In that area there were always heavy predator presence, wind, sometimes freezing temperatures at night, and certain areas of overpopulation, with high human presence nearby. Talking 30 degree temp difference or more. Pretty sure the deer were doing 2 things.
First, letting themselves stay a lot dryer. Which is safer for them in the cold night time freezing temps. Also means they'll have a lower energy consumption being colder, and not moving around saves them energy too. I know they don't know this, but lots of animals instinctively do things based on evolution of animals that didn't do that. Then become learned behavior.
Second, is safety. They have obviously a serious disadvantage in rain. Air doesn't travel as much and it more difficult to judge direction in rain. Especially with high wind. But their scent is easier to track on things in rain like the ground, brush, and leaves. Which makes it easier for predators to find them. Obviously they can't sense movement as easy because wind and rain make everything move. Then they also can't hear things as well. Creating noise everywhere. So truthfully I think that's the main reason they bed in the rain by me. They have a very high predator population. They can't see, hear or smell very well at all in those conditions. So when it rains if they bed down it makes their surroundings easier to interpret and see. Stops their smell from being left on everything, allows them to focus on what changes in their surroundings. Instead of their surroundings changing all the time by them moving. And they likely won't run into anything they don't want to because their nose can't pick up a predator or person 50 yards from their direction. Just what I've noticed in my area.
If your stalking in the rain all the leaves are wet and they are not crunchy same with grass
Are you seriously wasting people's time by commenting something so obvious?
@@ZeddicusTheMage Maybe I wasted your time as you must be The expert. Great White Hunter
Deer (especially Blacktail) move in the rain because they need to feed to help keep warm, plus their senses of smell and hearing are weakened so they’ll spend more time in the open where they can use sight. Plus in my opinion predators move less in the rain
Never leave a stand because a deer busts you. I've seen deer snort at each other. Especially if a dominant buck is chasing either a doe.I've seen bucks 15 minutes after does have blown and carried on taking off. I also heard a buck coming for over 100 yards snorting like crazy over and over because he was being chased by another buck.
Have taken them is rain and snow, blood trails can become compromised in the rain from wash off though. Have had spooked deer come back through 30ins to an hour after them getting startled.
I almost exclusively hunt the rain and bad weather because I prefer spot and stalk/ still hunting on public land. You can become a ghost in the woods when it's raining and in public land bucks change their patterns so often that it's really a luck game sitting in a stand, private land is a different story cuz they stay more consistent
Absolutely great advice. Keep up the good work. ✝️
Agreed, bumped a doe getting into my stand, 20mins later had an 8 point on the ground all before 8am
Had my greatest elk hunts in rain! Hands down best time besides snowing
IMO snow is the best weather to hunt in I’ve had some of the best luck when it snows
I had a mature 140 inch ten point patterned really well, hunted him once and he came in like usual but the wind swirled and he caught my scent, blew out of there, and never came back. Was killed by someone else a month later about 6 miles away. Mature deer are so much smarter than people think.
As long as it’s not pouring but a nice mist to light rain they move a ton. I missed a big buck in that weather earlier this year but luckily I shot an even bigger one a few weeks later to which it was my biggest buck scoring 118 when my previous biggest was like 96 3/8
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Yes absolutely one time I was hunting the ground and i ran out of light the walk out to a field and bumped probably bumped over twenty deer. I sat them the next day and harvested the bigest deer of my life “193/3” 11 points
I hunt weather !!!!
Im a still stalker &a large caliber pistol hunter & i never leave the ground ...
Wind & rain are my favorite....
Snow is too easy in my opinion....
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I've always seen more wildlife in a nice steady light rain. Especially turkeys.
My favorite time to hunt is a light steady rain, Find a clear cut and wait
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In my experience when it’s raining, the deer tend to be a little bit more lethargic, they are a prey, animal and respond to any little noise and the rain dampens the noise because everything is soaking wet and because of the rain itself.
Moral of the story: why don’t we just not hunt wild animals unless your going to eat them?
Do not know a hunter who doesn't utilize the meat.
That's true about deer wondering up after a kill. I was gutting a a buck and my buddy fired...huge doe within twenty yards not one minute later
The last buck I shot was a huge buck, and it was travelling in a group of about 4-5 bucks
Tagged a nice old 4x4 with a group of does. Over 200lbs Poconos. That's gigantic for the area.
If anything, I always get told hunt in the storms because that’s when the deer start moving and so far every time it has been correct
#4. Rompola buck is legit....... As legit as a 3 dollar bill
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Rain just depends on how hard it’s raining otherwise yes I 100% agree
The funny thing is I know people who spend hundreds on camouflage. I went hunting in blue jeans and a white jacket. I was able to get within about 25yrds of the deer and they looked right at me. I just stood still and didn’t move and they watched for maybe 30sec and started eating and moving again. It’s amazing how little you need to actually go deer hunting.
Ehh, with the rain thing I think it just depends. This year I got my 138 inch 10 point literally not even 5 minutes after it stopped raining here in PA archery season. I was soaked and hunted in the rain 2 days in a row and didn't see a deer while raining but no more than a minute or 2nafter the rain stopped, I'd see movement like crazy
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I've gotten two of my biggest deer in the rain. One scored a 158 6/8.
I always loved hunting the rain
Rain is some of best time I’ve seen deer
The rain is the ABSOLUTE BEST time to hunt
I saw a 14 pointer with another 6 pointer just hanging out beside the road in September this year
I watched this very animated yearling run right underneath of my stand and jump and prance around for a bit and then run up to the crest of a hill to hang out with a four point. It was kind of cute, like he just wanted to hang out with the big kids!
I think deer move more when it’s snowing because they think their food gonna get covered with snow
Im an archer who hungs big public.
Every pouring rain storm, I am in the woods.
Last season, I spent 10 hours in the worst rain Ive seen in years.
Had the biggest buck in my life come less than 10 yards away.
Never knew I was there.
And Im staring at the rack as I write this
Or hunt in the rain a use a 7mm and droper instead of a 243 or a 6.5 and track it a mile for a lung shot
I seen a huge mpster buck with my dad and he was abt a 10 maybe 11 and he was huge and he was hanging out with a little 6 or 7 point
Deer will feed before a rain and bed during the rain but if it rains more than 24 hrs or so they will feed In the rain, they don't like it though and will try to avoid it.. same thing with wind, wind actually spooks them they don't understand it.
If it's cold and rainy some will actually lay down in mud holes to slow the blood flow I lost one for 3 hrs Because of this.. it was crazy I finally found the mud hole and could see blood in water then tracks out of it.. I followed the tracks for 5 min before it bled again then when I saw the blood I looked up and he was laid up against a tree .. good shot just that deer was smart big 6 point love me some deer meat
There cleaver my dad shot his buck a while back before I got my deer and he said he found it alive and it pulled the arrow out of itself really amazing creatures
Right after the rain is better. And I'm in western Washington State... I know deer, and I know rain. big bucks are not necessarily solitary. Many hunters tell a story of taking a 4 point, Only to have an 6×7 step out a few minutes later! I think it's covered in the regulations under "Murphy's law"...