Very Cold Weather Movement

[Five Seasons]

When it's very cold like this morning; do deer tend to move more to keep their body temps up! Or hunker down to conserve?I'm in 8F.

[Doc]

As one single data point, let me say that I just looked out in the yard and saw deer tracks criss-crossing all over the place. It is 10 degrees out here right now. I think cold weather sends them on a food shopping mission trying to fortify their calorie supply. That's just a guess, because when its that damned cold out there, I am hunkered down trying to conserve.

[phade]

they move in spurts. right before this storm is a freat example. they are calorie loading to sit through the sntorm as much as possible. im in a blind over a fld covered in tracks. wibd is picking up which to me is a bit of a killer on activity at this time of year. seems like I witness activity when wind drops.

[bluecoupe]

Yep, strong changes in weather patterns will usually have them moving more than temperature. I'd bet they were/are active in the early morning hours today. 

Phade: wth is wibd?

[phade]

wind chill is 1 degree. excuse my typing skills.

[cdmckane]

The snow just started here in 7J.  I had two does about 100 yards in front of my blind at 630 eating away, but they moved on before sunrise.  The snow started shortly after legal shooting time.

[bluecoupe]

wind chill is 1 degree. excuse my typing skills.

 

no problem at all - I figured it was some texting acronym.   Good luck today

 

[growalot]

I know here if you want to see them during the day...try spots with lots of bramble patches.......near swamps...areas with natural grass and down falls..... dogwood brush and  a single-small group of pine ....

[Five Seasons]

Saw lots of tracks this morning but only a few doe. I think they're moving and feeding a lot at night now. Hunkering down during the day to save calories.

[phade]

moog shot a doe this a.m.

[growalot]

Congrats...not much snow there....

[silent death]

There's more deer moving around now then there has

been all seaseon.....i think its because there's less hunters

in the woods......man is it cold we are expecting a foot

of snow here today and the storm just started

deer are all hearded up here.

[loworange88]

I'll be out later on for an evening sit...and then tomorrow morning, before I hang up hunting clothes for this year.  I hope to see some movement, I havent seen a darn thing since bow season.

[Five Seasons]

moog shot a doe this a.m.

A doe or a large dog? Haha jk that'll taste great

[landtracdeerhunter]

Yep, strong changes in weather patterns will usually have them moving more than temperature. I'd bet they were/are active in the early morning hours today. 

Phade: wth is wibd?

 

Very active here on food sources, before 6 AM. TODAY.

[growalot]

The wind here is roaring and we are now piling up deep drifts...heard a far off shot a little bit ago...Seriously...no way!....it just looks brutal out there....

[phade]

A doe or a large dog? Haha jk that'll taste great

average 1.5 yo doe. dont forget moog is....not small.

[thphm]

Gotta laugh at this one, about 30 minutes ago I walk to the front of the house , look out the window and a little doe born this year walks from the front lawn and stops on the road and is there for 5 minutes in the middle eating salt that dropped off of the town truck.It then goes on the other side of the road heading to the pines. Less then 5 minutes here the come driving very slow looking on both sides of the road and I laugh TOO LATE.

[turkeyfeathers]

Nephew plugged a doe this morning, came out from pines

Brother just plugged one, came out from pines.

 

Hit them pines is moral of story

[growalot]

yep like I said...I see one was taken in cat tails....and your 2  near pines....I wish I was able to go out......

[ants]

Cold, snowy and real high winds here. I went out yesterday for a few hours and it was brutal. I did cut some fresh tracks though.

[upstate]

Went out first thing this morning in Cortland county, it was frigid cold. I was a little late and as I'm walking to my stand I see a doe about 100 yards away, right in the trail near my stand. I dropped to my knee and was zeroing in when another deer winded me and blew, off they went,

 

So we went to a friends house where he decided to put us in some stands. About 45 minutes later my friend shoots and I can't see a thing. Then all of a sudden all hell breaks loose. 7 doe come running right to me with a large adult stopped 20 yards away I squeeze trigger and my Knight muzzle loader  is froze up, won't shoot!! She walks a few steps and I start yanking on trigger to no avail. I finally use my left hand to punch my trigger finger (mind you folks, I am absolutely frozen at this point) and it touches off. I hit it back about a foot but she went went down. the other deer allowed me to reload but when my used up shot gun primer hit the metal stand they looked up and saw me, taking off. 

 

Second year in a row I was successful with all 3 implements. Something I'd never done in 30 years of hunting. 

 

I'm done, gear frozen solid in the truck. Doe hanging in barn. 

 

I've had better years but my best season was always my last....