Hardwood11
It is going to be a good fall!
we need a thaw
IN MN, we could use 30-40's. The deer are walking through 2-3 feet of snow. We need a thaw or some deer might not make it over the winter.
IN MN, we could use 30-40's. The deer are walking through 2-3 feet of snow. We need a thaw or some deer might not make it over the winter.
Liv4Rut
Active Member
The weather definitely sucks. I am taking tomorrow off work in hopes of scoring on the last semi cold day. High of 24, hopefully they will be moving a little. After that it will just suck. Plus all the fair weather hunters will be out and about again when they are normally home.
Nontypcl1
Member
I was out last night and the movement was terrific. I was sitting in a ground blind over looking a 1acre brassica plot. I had 3 mature bucks come in. The closest one came into 53yds. Just a little too far for comfort with my bow. At one time 20 deer were feeding in front of me. 14doe and 6 bucks. I think tonight should be good as well if you have a food source nearby. Hopefully it will be a little colder than they say this week since I've got vacation for the next 8 days.
dedgeez
death from above
X2. The snow is brutal up here. Hunted/scouted a standing corn field last night that is quite a ways from the woods, lots of ears still in it, and no deer using the field. The snow around the field was waist deep in places and the deer are not walking out to it. Another one of my plots is on the edge of the timber and is getting hammered. This winter is going to kill a bunch of deer up here if we don't get some sort of melt. Not to mention the crop harvest was early this year and the weather stayed nice so long that the majority of the picked fields were turned under before the snow came. Not alot of food available in this area. Gonna be a hard winter for the critters.
Hardwood11
It is going to be a good fall!
tough weather
I agree, if some of the bean and corn stubble is exposed by warm weather, then we will be OK. Pheasants are definitely suffering, predators are picking them off. I saw a bald eagle on top of a hen this week, the eagle was so big it made the hen look like a sparrow.
I agree, if some of the bean and corn stubble is exposed by warm weather, then we will be OK. Pheasants are definitely suffering, predators are picking them off. I saw a bald eagle on top of a hen this week, the eagle was so big it made the hen look like a sparrow.
gundog870
Premium Platinum Member
Bingo, everything being plowed is my biggest concern.
bowtech150
Backstrap Assassin
hopefully with this warm weather and rain cornfields all over iowa will show themselves and save the deer herds
jjohnson
Well-Known Member
Yeah that would be great but 40's on Friday followed by 10 degrees Saturday may just make things harder on the wildlife. We'll just have to wait and see what happens. I don't like the sounds of rain and then cold. Everything will freeze up like concrete.
SEIowaDeerslayer
Well-Known Member
I think someone should let the DNR know how many doe tags Mother Nature is filling. :way:
risto2351
Well-Known Member
Never happen in N.E. Iowa.
I agree with Justin. Too much snow up there. The rain will make the
snow hard as a rock.
Hopefully we do not get any or very very little. The snow crunches enough with all the fluffy snow.
Scooter1
Member
If it rains and the snow gets knocked down a little, I would think the ground would be harder to get to than just having 3 ft of snow. I hunted near Spillville this weekend and the deer can still get to the ground fairly easily despite kneecap deep snow (or deeper in spots). A couple of years ago it rained late in November, leaving a good layer of ice on the ground under the few inches snow and the wildlife just couldnt get through it. It was hard to find a buck in my area that had not dropped at least one antler before the end of December. I think rain this week will be terrible no matter how you look at it. Not to mention having to shovel off the roofs on my acreage...