Weather

[matchset]

Just checked the weather....Saturdays high is 36! Plus a 30% chance of white stuff

100% chance I'm going to have fun hunting with my dad!

[muskiemanAD]

SE looks like 46 for a high with a chance of rain..... Hopefully doesn't rain the first day, don't need my cloths wet!

[motley man]

I don't mind the snow, but my old 1950's Remmington 30.06 stock is not good in the rain. Someone said to refinish it, but that would only take away the beauty of it from years of use by my father for 40 years and now me for 32 years.

[Musky Buck]

Thankfully they are backing off of the earlier ice,rain,snow report somehwat, 36 saturday and a snow shower, sunday cloudy, etc. Just please no rain, I'm not in a lavish box stand, now for that hot doe at about 8am saturday followed by a horse with antlers.

[Phunnyfarm]

So is upper 30's "cold enough" to make the deer motivated to move around and stay warm? Or does it need to be BONE CHIILING (close to zero degrees) to get that behavior?

What do you guys think if the forecast stuck, and it was 40, VERY light wind, and sprinkling?

[Musky Buck]

Bone chilling. They have 13 hours to feed in the dark, I think that's often why I see beds in our alfalfa, they digest and chew up what they had 1st, then they eat up before daybreak and us hunters surface and lay low to do the same the next night etc. I think it depends on human presence and pressure, the more of it like every woods is surrounded by box stands so your sightings are going to be minimal. Changing weather, hot doe, etc. there are reasons they may move during shooting light but look at how few of us can get a daytime deer picture and there's tens of thousands of trailcams out there, and we haven't in a sense really pressured them yet. I don't think the deer move around to stay warm, we do, they bed in the thickest rathole they can find out of the wind to stay warm.

[Boar]

So its gone be a high of Blamo! with a chance of venny on the grill.

[Odonata]

35 and chance of flurries! Better than Christmas, can hardly keep my heart rate down!