Lunar Eclipse

[Wes Ellis]

Just wondering what you think the efect of a full moon and a lunar eclipse this saturday will have on deer movement?

[DonBo]

Seriously? Absolutely no effect on deer MOVEMENT. I do believe they may get a lot shaggier and grow some pretty cool looking incisors though.

[Bear55]

Get ready for action!!! The lunar eclipse will have a reverse photoperiod effect on the does bringing many of that back into estrus for a 2nd round of rut action. Because of this may does will be dropping twins, triples, and quadruplets next spring. At the same time some of the doe fawns will be hitting their first estrus. The 2nd rut, accompanied by the reverse photoperiod will scramble their biological clocks triggering them into heat. This Saturday will either be the most wild and crazy rut anyone has ever seen in 10 generations or I am totally full of it.

[flipper]

They will all be milling about watching the eclipse. Deer are very interested in things like that. Unfortunately, The lunar eclipse takes place at night when shooting is not legal.

[Musky Buck]

Wow Bear, you are amped up my man, I would guess the yetti will unhibernate for this event, I'm going to be on stand by 4 AM, dropping doe urine every 5 feet, dragging a rag, kicking up a mock scrape, rattling horns on the hour, grunt/snort/wheeze/bleat every half hour, bellycrawling the cattails and red willow, muzzy speed loader in my teeth.

[eyeguy 54]

Have fun out there. I'm just gonna take a picture. If clear. :>)

[jay83196]

They will move around a lot....at night!

[FishinFools]

That moon rising tonight as I sat in my stand did NOT make me feel any warmer! It did, however, provide a well lit walk out, complete with well defined shadow. Cold afternoon in the stand. Darn that wind! Bring on the deer! I am more than ready to "harvest!"

[Odonata]

Anyone seeing much moving during shooting hours?

[Archerysniper]

Buddy saw a big buck and 2 does tonight,could only get a shot at the last doe and missed she then stood their and teased him while he was reloading the blkpowder and left right when he was able to put the cap on. That made me laugh really hard.

[BleedSiouxGreen]

Our neighbor/buddy shot a 160 class 10 pt Friday night. Nice buck and good for him! Makes me sick to my stomach to see since we've been chasing it for 2 years now. Just when you think the big one's moved on our neighbor bags him

[tracker x-2]

I was out tonight and did not see a single deer ......

[paceman]

I did not see anything either. I saw a few early sat. morning before legal shooting time and then nothing alse the rest of the day saturday. Pleasant hunting conditions though

[bigbucks]

Hunted Friday night, Saturday am & pm, as well as Sunday am & pm. Hunted 5 different stands on 5 different properties, saw zero deer, frustrating weekend. My buddy sat with me Friday night at my folks, he saw three & harvested a buck fawn. That was fun to be involved in.

Did find a dead buck in the swamp where we do most of our gun hunting. Most likely the one my cousin's daughter hit on gun opener that they couldn't find. The coyotes had most definitely found it... Fun walking around in a swamp that's too deep to cross in chest waders when it's not frozen & being able to go wherever you want.

[TruthWalleyes]

I saw quite a few in SW MN again this weekend.

For example. 2pm saturday i drop off my buddy who is bow hunting. As he gets out of the vehicle there were 20 does running a fenceline into the property...Cool!!

I missed one that night. He missed one earlier that morning.

Didn't have to hunt past 10am sunday

Brutal wind! Watched doe and fawn cross my path before shooting hours and go into the CRP i was hunting. At 9am i walked the CRP out. shot a very nice doe! Season done. Very clean kill. (Didn't damage a quarter, tenderloin, back strap...nothin!) Bacon wrapped tenderloins tonight...and backstraps the next couple of days! I still tossed out two bonus tags this year. But the season was fun. I missed enough deer this year to fill my bonus tags so i don't feel ill about that. Saw lots of deer. Hope to improve my shooting next year...Geeze i cannot even begin to understand why i missed the shots i did!

11 days of hunting. I saw anywhere from 1 to 40 deer each day. Probably passed on over 30 deer this year (Put in sights, and let walk) and the doe i finally shot on the last day of muzzleloader was a TROPHY to me!!

[Musky Buck]

7 of us and the lunar eclipse failed us, none of us saw a deer friday-sunday. Pretty slow muzzy season, not sure I saw a deer or heard a twig snap, an exact mirror of rifle season, lots of 0's. Next year right ? lol, the past 6 have been so different.

[Bear55]

Pretty slow up my way too, covered a lot of ground and not many deer around. Put on a few small 2 man drives and I think they just held tight and let us walk by. Of course lots of old rut sign but the deer were better than the hunters last weekend. They must all be in Musky Bucks swamp.

[Musky Buck]

I know 1 thing there were a lot of guys out in that swamp, I fired to empty my gun and 2 guys in orange surfaced on the swamp road wondering why I shot lol, not a ton of them in the swamp either meaning deer, it'll be interesting to see the wintering herd in there come February or whenever real winter hits us, doe numbers seem really low hence not many fawns around either, plenty of bucks, but they had us figured out before rifle season hit and they had the does bred around there in no time, definitely more bucks than does now. That I thought I'd never be able to say as true, but more are willing to shoot a doe than an immature buck, we always have this there's always more does than bucks around anyway, look at harvest numbers right, but things have changed gradually over the years in my main area, no wonder it's a rare event lately to see any buck chasing a doe, there isn't that many does to chase around. But, my trailcam will tell the story this winter on buck and doe and fawn survival numbers, got a waterhole magnet that never freezes and it attracts most of the deer in the swamp at one point or another. Here's looking forward to 2012 and November 3rd. I bet the deer are breathing a sigh of relief lol, finally.