Do any of you plan your weekends around not hunting the full moon. I have been hunting since I was a kid. I have never been so serious about it as I have the last two years. I see a lot of animals but I never feel that I have the right shot so I do not take it. This weekend on my lease in Georgia, I was picked on for not gong out as early as most. (possibly a little to much rum and soda) I figured that it was better to hunt late on the full moon. (this is what I have heard). I trekked out about 10:30 Thursday morning and carried my 12 ga. Not prepared to see deer but hoping to see a few hogs. Well 5 minutes into checking my feeder and spreading out a little yellow seed for the pigs 2 does ran right towards me. Messed me all up. I did what I try not to do and took a bad shot at both and missed. Looked and looked for blood and hair but nothing. Climbed the stand saw another deer about an hr later. Didn't see anything Thursday night. Friday morning I did the same thing. Went out late walked in and saw three deer. An hr later 3 more deer came walking in on another trail and one stopped perfectly in the lane and I got her with my 30-30. So what I am wondering is do any of you follow this consistently. Hunting later on a full moon? Or how do you hunt the full moon?
I prefer a full moon. I get so sick of people saying "the moon screwed them up", or "this full moon aint helping", etc..the list goes on
My 5 biggest bucks were all killed within days of the full moon and before 8am. They will typically feed middle of the night, right before daylight(you catch them in transition period right at daylight heading to bed up), middle of the day, and again right at dark. Usually the moon under is right around lunch time.
Right now, we have a whole hunting season of pressure on them, so you can toss all that out the window
last year when I crossed that drainage ditch the only full moon out was mine and nothing was moving around under it.
last year when I crossed that drainage ditch the only full moon out was mine and nothing was moving around under it.
This was and continues to be one of the scariest assaults on the outdoors known to this forum....lol...regarding the full moon, I don't have decades of hunting experience to back this up but every time I am out in the woods during a full moon it seems I hear most of the shots taking place between 10 and 2 which would support hunting while the moon is underfoot.
