Moon Phase For Deer Hunting: Theories Explained by Deer Biologist!

[@daveguttormson6315]

You fellas do a great job on your podcast.

[@thesouthernoutdoorsmen]

Thanks!

[@MarvinWafflehouse91]

On a train this past Sunday heading from Birmingham to Nashville we almost smoked a very big buck with the train within 10 minutes of the major movement that morning …think we seen close to 40 deer always makes Me wish I was up a tree 😂

[@jackyhallmark3094]

I have not kept records on it BUT. My experience since the early 70s seems to be that when we get a full moon around the 6th thru the 12 th or so of November the chasing really kicked in hard. I'm in Southern Oklahoma and this is considering that the weather isn't unusually warm and it's been a normal/no drought year and food is and has been readily available. The deer being hit on the highways would also be affected by a stronger chase phase. I dont pay much attention to moon phases or positions other than that time. They call it the hunters moon for a reason. If it happens much earlier than those dates it doesn't matter. If it happens much later it puts it into peak breeding. I have ONLY noticed this when the full moon is late in the first week or early in that second week of November. Instead of a slow increase in chasing, it's like someone flipped a switch and it goes crazy.

[@instinctiveaddictionarcher8998]

The cameras don’t lie here in Bama on pressured deer, the overhead moon of any phase definitely gets them moving and a new moon is just like a full moon as far as mid day movement being all we see usually even in cold weather.

[@kyledexheimer6548]

have you correlated that with the amount of hunting pressure, the weather, etc and then run regression analysis?

[@lightsout7034]

I belive it work when your hunting close to bedding area

[@chuckparson6712]

I think there are more people out driving around during the full moon, that's why there's more collisions with deer 🤣

[@joelfradiska8029]

When your hunting that mature buck your looking for those SMALL things to help close the deal so saying the moon doesn’t have an effect because you don’t see an obvious difference is just dumb to me.