ALAN Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 does anyone put stock in the moon phase having significant bearing on deer movement?how does the moon phase affects movement.are some days better to hunt then others??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texan_Til_I_Die Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 Full moon at night, I see more deer movement in midday. Other than that, I still see the majority of movement early and late. Back in the 80's when all this moon phase stuff was fairly new, I did a lot of unofficial research on it and I found that the moon phases, tables, whatever you want to call them, was really good at predicting movement of predatory animals and fish, but not nearly as good at predicting the grazing animals like deer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 Yep, I believe it. Photoperiodism. The most significant aspect of the moon phase that I've noticed is where the new moon is closest to Halloween. New moon around Halloween and you're going to see a lot of deer movement the following week. This year the new moon isn't until like the 11th I think, so the first week of November will be interesting I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
layin on the smackdown Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 Yep, I believe it. Photoperiodism. The most significant aspect of the moon phase that I've noticed is where the new moon is closest to Halloween. New moon around Halloween and you're going to see a lot of deer movement the following week. This year the new moon isn't until like the 11th I think, so the first week of November will be interesting I think. Yep. I agree with Chris bigtime on this one...which is why i have elected to take off from the 8-17 of NOV instead of the 4-13th like i normally do...and i also agree with the other above statement regarding mid day movement during a full moon, and nightitme movement. During a new moon, you will tend to see more daylight activity, and as it approaches the half moon and full moon, the amount of daylight activity decreases and night time activity increases...thats how i feel about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddyboman Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 Yep I believe and do follow it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 Current field and stream lists the 7 best days of this years rut with the best day being November 11th. They give moon phases for each of those days, Halloween is listed in those top 7 days. Typically here our best movement during legal shooting hours seems to come around Thanksgiving week. While the moon phases may make for peaks in activity and it does seem that full moon often means slow mornings, I tend to make every effort to spend as much time in the stand as I am able to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NC8point Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 I use them and have found the moon phases to be pretty accurate except during the rut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunterbobb Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 :gun2:Yep I believe in the moon phases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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