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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: MeepDog on July 04, 2021, 02:41:12 PM

Title: Low pressure behavior
Post by: MeepDog on July 04, 2021, 02:41:12 PM: When people talk about bucks in mid October during our gun season they always say the bucks remain bedded all day and you might catch them at dawn and dusk. In heavily hunted GMUs this is as true as it gets, but I want to know if unpressured deer still follow these rules. If a deer has never been hunted or seen another deer get shot, will they still bed down all day through gun season just on principle?

I'm talking whitetails by the way.
Title: Re: Low pressure behavior
Post by: Jingles on July 04, 2021, 03:46:29 PM: Not an expert on the subject or have I killed anywhere the number of deer others have but all those I have killed have been during "the heat of the day" between 10 AM and 2 PM and in areas I would call low pressure, first 2 years only other hunters, I saw were camp mates.
Title: Re: Low pressure behavior
Post by: MeepDog on July 04, 2021, 03:51:41 PM: Quote from: Jingles on July 04, 2021, 03:46:29 PM
Not an expert on the subject or have I killed anywhere the number of deer others have but all those I have killed have been during "the heat of the day" between 10 AM and 2 PM and in areas I would call low pressure, first 2 years only other hunters, I saw were camp mates.

Were you hunting general modern season in october? What was your elevation like? I'm looking at pretty low elevation.
Title: Re: Low pressure behavior
Post by: Wingin it on July 04, 2021, 05:01:24 PM: I have killed a good handful of bucks during the middle part of the day when most are back at camp. It’s not just a morning evening deal all the time. The deer will move when they feel most comfortable to do so. Sometimes that’s the middle of the day when the woods are quiet.
Title: Re: Low pressure behavior
Post by: slowhand on July 04, 2021, 06:08:47 PM: Good topic, I’d like to hear personal experience with mule and black tail too.
Title: Re: Low pressure behavior
Post by: Caseknife on July 04, 2021, 09:15:01 PM: In my experience, the theory that deer only move early or late, comes from the hunters that don't want to hunt the timber. They just want to glass across canyons at open hillsides and meadows and that is when the animals will be there. Animals especially in the fall going into winter tend to feed as much as they can to put on fat. Can't do that from a bed very easily, can be done but its going to be a snack only. If you hunt the timber you will see animals all hours of the day.
Title: Re: Low pressure behavior
Post by: Jingles on July 04, 2021, 09:21:09 PM: Quote from: MeepDog on July 04, 2021, 03:51:41 PM
Quote from: Jingles on July 04, 2021, 03:46:29 PM
Not an expert on the subject or have I killed anywhere the number of deer others have but all those I have killed have been during "the heat of the day" between 10 AM and 2 PM and in areas I would call low pressure, first 2 years only other hunters, I saw were camp mates.

Were you hunting general modern season in october? What was your elevation like? I'm looking at pretty low elevation.

Yes general modern season and around 2500 to 3000 feet of elevation, UT as I said was well away from other hunters and that is getting harder to do lately, well not hunters but woods invaders