Could You Try To Clarify Something For Me ?

[The Silence]

Could you give me your ideas on this statement that I've heard from a couple of guys who were shotgun hunting? It went something like this," The deer seem to still be out in the fields and not concentrated in the woods like they normally are at this time of year. I think it has to do with the warm weather." Do you think they are talking about doe bedding areas or some type of food sources such as woody browse? I know you can't read peoples' minds but if you have any ideas let me know.

 

[captain]

I would assume that they mean that due to the lack of snow combined with the warmer temps that they feel the deer are bedded or 'hiding' in the grasses and/or smaaler tracts.

 

[Hardcorehunter]

Yep, what captain said. The gun hunters have run the deer out of the woods and it will take some cold weather and snow to cause them to go back to the timbers for refuge also.

 

[TimberPig]

Yep, what they said. As an example a buddy of mine was having a hard time finding deer last weekend and he ended up bumping a good buck off of a terrace in the middle of a bean field. When its this nice, deer dont need the weather protection of timber.

 

[teeroy]

wednesday morning (3:30am)i was coming home from work, saw 2 bucks bedded in the grass buffer around a bean field, 20yards off the road. grass is taller in my yard, than what they were laying in.

curse you, el nino

 

[avidhunter]

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...curse you, el nino

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Or rather, curse you Global Warming!

 

[Handcannon]

This global warming thing is really confusing. When it's super cold we are told it's global warming & when it's warm it's global warming. I wish algore would make up his mind.

 

[gundog870]

i belly crawled for three hours today getting up on a nice ten in the middle of the bean field by himself. watched him for hours. nice deer. I left with clean hands though.