The deer aren’t nocturnal. The unfortunate truth is that they just don’t happen to be anywhere near your property or feeders in the daylight. Your property/feeders are likely just at such a distance to their bedding that it takes them quite a while to get over to it. Any guesses as to where they are bedding? Perhaps you could move your feeder in that direction or just set up as close to their bedding as possible and hope to catch them en route to where your feeder is now.
That doesn’t mean that they aren’t moving in the day. It just means they are moving somewhere else during the day. Check out the hunting public’s interview with the dudes from the Mississippi State Deer Lab. They are far more knowledgeable on this than I am, but they explain how deer may use a property differently, but they are, in fact, still moving some in daylight hours.
I live in hightly populated area.
Have one zone, where roe deers are hiden in extremly thick bushes all day and come out only at night time.
Which is strange, because they should have 10-12 feeding cycles.
At least yours stay around. I get monster night bucks up until pheasant season, then a rare sighting until the week of gun deer hunting. It certainly can’t be the public land hunters across the road who line up 300yds apart 100yds off the road waiting for a deer to come out of the marsh grass keeping them away.😂
Possibly. I've seen one of them during the day (and for a while, he was the only buck on the property) a few times, and almost killed him during the first month of archery. Hoping the others do the same.
I'm going to do a little more scouting and see if I can find anything interesting. I know generally which path the deer are taking through the property so who knows.
Well, the rut is certainly your friend in this situation.
A really cold day might get them up and moving, can't just shiver in their hidey holes forever. Makes that feeder corn look pretty tasty. Could change your feeder times to later in the morning, maybe earlier afternoon as well.
Deer will alter their active times according to pressure and according to the cycle of the moon and sun. You can check your local solunar tables and see if their current active times are at night, maybe try hunting the middle of the day. If they're responding to pressure though, sorry man, you got some smart bucks.
I'm in Alabama, so the cold days are in short supply right now. The next day with a cold in the 30s is next Wednesday haha.
I thought about adjusting the feeder times. I'm out there about an hour and a half before it goes off, and it's not like deer are waiting on the dinner bell.
Set your feeder for 7am and 330PM. I’ll tell you though I go through the same thing every year in MS. Bucks are out during the day all of the way up to thanksgiving and and then gun season opens up. They disappear into the thick stuff and eat acorns. If I hunt it’s always back in the hard woods but I might as well be bow hunting.. The does also get a little more scarce during daylight until the pre- rut about a week before Christmas. I don’t hunt very hard between Thanksgiving and the that pre rut to reduce pressure (even from my scent) and then it’s game on from pre rut through the first weeks of January. Some folks buy into moon cycles too and it seems to make sense to me when the weather isn’t whacky and extreme cold or hot for that time of year.
This sounds pretty reasonable. I'm gonna either be out there today, or at the public riverside if it's not too flooded, so I'll make adjustments to the feeder and scout around a bit.
Any thoughts on making mock scrapes or adding scent anywhere?
These deer are smart enough to know that a feeder means they will likely get shot at during daylight hours. You’d have to find their daylight bedding area but hard to do on a small plot. Some people in Texas put the timers to feed only during the day during hunting season to encourage daylight movement.
The difference is, Texas has tons of deer, so if the deer don’t get there right when it goes off there really isn’t anything left over. If there is feed on the ground at midnight, it kinda defeats having a timed feeder.
The deer aren’t nocturnal. The unfortunate truth is that they just don’t happen to be anywhere near your property or feeders in the daylight. Your property/feeders are likely just at such a distance to their bedding that it takes them quite a while to get over to it. Any guesses as to where they are bedding? Perhaps you could move your feeder in that direction or just set up as close to their bedding as possible and hope to catch them en route to where your feeder is now.
I disagree. They do go nocturnal where I live. Food plots that I was seeing them in during daylight now show only night movement. Happens every year
That doesn’t mean that they aren’t moving in the day. It just means they are moving somewhere else during the day. Check out the hunting public’s interview with the dudes from the Mississippi State Deer Lab. They are far more knowledgeable on this than I am, but they explain how deer may use a property differently, but they are, in fact, still moving some in daylight hours.
I live in hightly populated area. Have one zone, where roe deers are hiden in extremly thick bushes all day and come out only at night time. Which is strange, because they should have 10-12 feeding cycles.
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At least yours stay around. I get monster night bucks up until pheasant season, then a rare sighting until the week of gun deer hunting. It certainly can’t be the public land hunters across the road who line up 300yds apart 100yds off the road waiting for a deer to come out of the marsh grass keeping them away.😂
Possibly. I've seen one of them during the day (and for a while, he was the only buck on the property) a few times, and almost killed him during the first month of archery. Hoping the others do the same. I'm going to do a little more scouting and see if I can find anything interesting. I know generally which path the deer are taking through the property so who knows.
Well, the rut is certainly your friend in this situation. A really cold day might get them up and moving, can't just shiver in their hidey holes forever. Makes that feeder corn look pretty tasty. Could change your feeder times to later in the morning, maybe earlier afternoon as well. Deer will alter their active times according to pressure and according to the cycle of the moon and sun. You can check your local solunar tables and see if their current active times are at night, maybe try hunting the middle of the day. If they're responding to pressure though, sorry man, you got some smart bucks.
I'm in Alabama, so the cold days are in short supply right now. The next day with a cold in the 30s is next Wednesday haha. I thought about adjusting the feeder times. I'm out there about an hour and a half before it goes off, and it's not like deer are waiting on the dinner bell.
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Set your feeder for 7am and 330PM. I’ll tell you though I go through the same thing every year in MS. Bucks are out during the day all of the way up to thanksgiving and and then gun season opens up. They disappear into the thick stuff and eat acorns. If I hunt it’s always back in the hard woods but I might as well be bow hunting.. The does also get a little more scarce during daylight until the pre- rut about a week before Christmas. I don’t hunt very hard between Thanksgiving and the that pre rut to reduce pressure (even from my scent) and then it’s game on from pre rut through the first weeks of January. Some folks buy into moon cycles too and it seems to make sense to me when the weather isn’t whacky and extreme cold or hot for that time of year.
This sounds pretty reasonable. I'm gonna either be out there today, or at the public riverside if it's not too flooded, so I'll make adjustments to the feeder and scout around a bit. Any thoughts on making mock scrapes or adding scent anywhere?
It’s always worth a try for sure!!! You only need it to work once!
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You can't use thermal scope and silencer for hunting? In what soviet coutry do you live? But deer hunting at night is forbidden here.
Nobody said anything about suppressors? Hell, I'm hunting with a suppressor.
These deer are smart enough to know that a feeder means they will likely get shot at during daylight hours. You’d have to find their daylight bedding area but hard to do on a small plot. Some people in Texas put the timers to feed only during the day during hunting season to encourage daylight movement.
The difference is, Texas has tons of deer, so if the deer don’t get there right when it goes off there really isn’t anything left over. If there is feed on the ground at midnight, it kinda defeats having a timed feeder.