Interesting observation this year...

[JRM6868]

One thing I noticed this year while hunting hill country was rutting activity was high in the AM and as it heated up around noon to 3 most of the activity was happening in the bottoms where it was cooler. Anybody else notice anything that might help them in the future this year?

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[BigHunt]

One thing I noticed this year while hunting hill country was rutting activity was high in the AM and as it heated up around noon to 3 most of the activity was happening in the bottoms where it was cooler. Anybody else notice anything that might help them in the future this year?

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hmmm i didnt notice good observation JR

[Zap]

Good observation.

Makes sense.

[Stanley]

I like your thought process.

[bowhunter15]

When I hunted hilly land this year during the rut... I saw lots of midday movement low, especially when combined with strong winds. However, I also saw buck movement high on the same lands during midday. It seemed that on that particular property it was the wind speed more than anything else that determined high/low. But you can only observe so much sitting in one stand at a time. It does make sense that more low movement could occur during periods of higher temps.

[BackWoodsHunter]

I made a handful of observations this year based on weather conditions and deer movement, my Lone wolf stand, and terrain features.

The biggest thing I made not of was the amount of deer movement I saw between 11am and 3pm on COOL sunny days with slight winds out of the south.

One still morning it was 17 degrees, no clouds in the sky and no wind. In relatively flat, bigwoods terrain. I dropped a milkweed and it rose straight up in the air almost as though the heat rising off my body carried it up as it rose. Pretty weird stuff.

Observed the seat post on my 2007 USA made assault flex like crazy when I cam locked it, it creaked and popped when I shifted my weight. After discussing with GrFox found that the best and only way to use the stand is no cam-locking an use both straps. Also left the stand hung over night in an freezing rain storm and learned to always check my buckles because they tend to slip when they freeze up...I almost went for a ride.

I noticed that deer don't tend to like consistency in cover. Majority of my deer sightings occurred on the fringes of very thick cover adjoining a change in elevation or a transition to a different form of thick cover.

Found all of my biggest rubs on the trunks of Cedar trees.

[JRM6868]

I made a handful of observations this year based on weather conditions and deer movement, my Lone wolf stand, and terrain features.

The biggest thing I made not of was the amount of deer movement I saw between 11am and 3pm on COOL sunny days with slight winds out of the south.

One still morning it was 17 degrees, no clouds in the sky and no wind. In relatively flat, bigwoods terrain. I dropped a milkweed and it rose straight up in the air almost as though the heat rising off my body carried it up as it rose. Pretty weird stuff.

Observed the seat post on my 2007 USA made assault flex like crazy when I cam locked it, it creaked and popped when I shifted my weight. After discussing with GrFox found that the best and only way to use the stand is no cam-locking an use both straps. Also left the stand hung over night in an freezing rain storm and learned to always check my buckles because they tend to slip when they freeze up...I almost went for a ride.

I noticed that deer don't tend to like consistency in cover. Majority of my deer sightings occurred on the fringes of very thick cover adjoining a change in elevation or a transition to a different form of thick cover.

Found all of my biggest rubs on the trunks of Cedar trees.

Good observations. Things that will help in the future hunts and possibly make you more successful in the future. I've noticed the transition or elevation also before. Deer like transitions in cover whether it's a fencerow field edge or in the woods of the hills they travel edges a lot.

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[GRUD]

I noticed more than ever this year in farm country that the deer during the rut travel on the downwind edge of the woods. I also noticed some bucks bedding on the very corner of a woodlot where they could see 270 degrees of a field and smell the whole woodlot.

[BackWoodsHunter]

I noticed more than ever this year in farm country that the deer during the rut travel on the downwind edge of the woods. [glow=red]I also noticed some bucks bedding on the very corner of a woodlot where they could see 270 degrees of a field and smell the whole woodlot.[/glow]

I have a spot like this too, it's really hard to hunt close to those beds.

[dan]

I noticed more than ever this year in farm country that the deer during the rut travel on the downwind edge of the woods. [glow=red]I also noticed some bucks bedding on the very corner of a woodlot where they could see 270 degrees of a field and smell the whole woodlot.[/glow]

I have a spot like this too, it's really hard to hunt close to those beds.

Yep... I see that a lot. Corners, fingers, and points.

[dan]

Observed the seat post on my 2007 USA made assault flex like crazy when I cam locked it, it creaked and popped when I shifted my weight. After discussing with GrFox found that the best and only way to use the stand is no cam-locking an use both straps.

I would be willing to bet there is something wrong on your stand, like the connection between the batwing and post making the noise, or a nylon washer not put on right.... None of my stands, or my friends stands do that.

[Stanley]

Observed the seat post on my 2007 USA made assault flex like crazy when I cam locked it, it creaked and popped when I shifted my weight.

You need to fix that. Just one of the things that can be controlled by the hunter.

[Rutnstrut]

I noticed the rut action in the bottoms also. I hunted one of my bottom spots on a very windy day in early November, at one point I dropped a milkweed seed and it hovered within a 10" area at stand height for 8 minutes. Not really anything important, I just thought it was cool.

[JRM6868]

Just thought it was something to put in the memory bank for the future. Seems the rut gets warm every year now with cooler weather in the am and warmer in the pm.

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[VA5326]

During the rut, I hunt an oak flat that is in a huge bottom. They chase like crazy there in the afternoons. I have never hunted it in the mornings just because the action is so good in the afternoon. One day I will hunt it in the morning.