Moonset/rise and deer movement

[dspohn]

Is there any coorelation between moonrise/set and deer movement? For example if the moon set in the evening and didnt rise till morn, would it be too dark for the deer at night with no moon, making them feed during the day?

[sticknstring]

I know there is a correlation to deer movement when the moon is directly overhead during daylight hours. Trail cameras provide strong evidence of this.

[Meat-Run]

I seceond what SNS said and I have proof in my woods with my trail cameras. From 2 weeks before rifle season all my cameras had deer movement and most of them were bucks of some nature, buttons, spikes, and others that were just moving through the area almost exactly to the hour of the peak moon rise/set. But this only should happen were there was little or any hunting pressure for deer to move freely and not alter there movements. I patterned a nice 8ptr to about 15 minutes of when he would show up but unfortunetly the "hunter" didn't seal the deal.

After watching the moon set/rise I am 100% a believer in the moon times but it can fall to the sidelines when all the does start coming into estrus.

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[96trigger]

I was not a big believer of this until this year, when I was going out to the stand at 2:00 (during bow season last week, still no pressure) and the deer were already in the field. Guess what time the moon was at its highest?

[Still_Huntin]

I've been hunting the moon for years. Without a doubt deer will be in the fields earlier then normal with an overhead moon. Some things will change it though like pressure and rut. I'm also a firm believer in the moon being a big factor for when the does go into estrus.