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stupid question
« on: October 25, 2010, 06:54:13 PM »
I keep reading/hearing hunt blacktails in the crappiest weather possible.... what's the reasoning behind that?

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Re: stupid question
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2010, 07:02:30 PM »
They cannot hear you sneak in, they cannot hone in on your odor with swirling irregular winds.....they cannot see your movement from so much brush whipping in the wind.

Remember the movie Predator?
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Re: stupid question
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2010, 07:09:54 PM »
That's what I figured, but I wasn't sure if there was more to it.

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Re: stupid question
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2010, 07:17:54 PM »
yah what they said. I personaly think they are more mobile in the rain..

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Re: stupid question
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2010, 07:22:02 PM »
yah what they said. I personaly think they are more mobile in the rain..
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Re: stupid question
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2010, 07:39:08 PM »

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Re: stupid question
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2010, 07:52:53 PM »
BTs are more relaxed and wander out into the open in unstable weather. Just don't tell anyone else about it.
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Re: stupid question
« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2010, 07:53:15 PM »
Not only that, but most hunters are out of the woods when the weather is nasty.




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Re: stupid question
« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2010, 07:57:34 PM »
And for what it's worth - the weather we're having is $*%&@ nasty!  I hunted two hours yesterday...spent another four hours getting my clothing washed & dried, my pack dry, etc.  :chuckle:   Crazy weather but a lot of bucks hit the dirt when the sideways rain sets in.
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Re: stupid question
« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2010, 07:58:18 PM »
Not only that, but most hunters are out of the woods when the weather is nasty.
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Re: stupid question
« Reply #10 on: October 25, 2010, 07:59:24 PM »
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Crazy weather but a lot of bucks hit the dirt when the sideways rain sets in.

Yep, it's like hunting in a car wash! Not for the faint of heart though.
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Re: stupid question
« Reply #11 on: October 25, 2010, 08:02:36 PM »
I live in western washington, I rarely wander outside without my snorkle

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Re: stupid question
« Reply #12 on: October 25, 2010, 08:06:35 PM »
We always figured they were more out in the open because they did not like to have the wet branches and stuff pushing against them and soaking through their waterproof layer.  Same for the elk, always more visible in the rain, not necessarily crazy swirling winds though.

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Re: stupid question
« Reply #13 on: October 26, 2010, 11:24:00 AM »
Another really weird thing,
 I have been surprised countless times (you would think I would learn !) walking back to my vehicle by deer bedded out in the open,
 and I mean grass patches in the middle of clear-cuts, that I was just walking through as a "shortcut".
not paying attention because I had hunted hard through all the nasty stuff w/o seeing anything and was heading to a different spot, or back to camp to dry out.
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