i just turn on my gps and it gives me feed times and all the info for the area in im.. it was pretty close last weekend.. about a half hour early or late.. and feed times dont mean the time they will walk past your stand lol.. they might feed and not even walk near you at all.. so dont get discouraged about the feed times thing.
some of the best hunting is in midday because deer become accustomed to hunter activity and have learned to avoid certain movement at times when hunters are not!
unfortunately i dont have a gps yet, sometimes the paper will have em but aint there a website i remember seeing that had the feeding and moon times or something like that? some of you guys are hunting on leases too and ill be on public so it might vary with the amount of pressure. yea lamehawk thats pretty much what i had read in books and magazines, deer learn to pattern the hunters sometimes, its pretty interesting stuff to read about.
lol.. my feed time is at like 7am gatorade and granola bars.. lol maybee ill drink some cmeer deer and pee from the stand also.. lol
thats pretty funny lol......but um i think it would be like cmere upset stomach and i have a feelin that peeing might not be the only thing youll be doing from your stand if you know what i mean..... :crap: 😆
i just turn on my gps and it gives me feed times and all the info for the area in im.. it was pretty close last weekend.. about a half hour early or late.. and feed times dont mean the time they will walk past your stand lol.. they might feed and not even walk near you at all.. so dont get discouraged about the feed times thing.
some of the best hunting is in midday because deer become accustomed to hunter activity and have learned to avoid certain movement at times when hunters are not!
unfortunately i dont have a gps yet, sometimes the paper will have em but aint there a website i remember seeing that had the feeding and moon times or something like that? some of you guys are hunting on leases too and ill be on public so it might vary with the amount of pressure. yea lamehawk thats pretty much what i had read in books and magazines, deer learn to pattern the hunters sometimes, its pretty interesting stuff to read about.
i have a lease close to Dublin,GA.last year during the pre-rut around the 2nd week NOV.there were 12 boone and crockett bucks took in 8 days according to local processors all shot between 11am-2:30pm.during NOV. i usually start the morning in a stand in between a bedding area and food or water source.if nothing i come down around 10:15am and move to a scrape line or ridge(usually go hand in hand)till about 3:30pm usually don't see alot of deer but if i do 95% time nice buck.finish it up on a food plot waiting on magic hour!note:shot my biggest buck @ 2:05pm during rut!good luck this year!!
I dont rely on the so called feed times but more in proper stand placement for the area I will be hunting.If anything it should be called movement time the times when deer activity levels may peak.Hunting over a food plot yes your better bet is to hunt the lower light times but thats not where the deer spend the most of their time.Look for a source of browse that they like the most and find the transition area's between them.
When rut hunting bucks sleep very little but travel many hours in a day unless pressured up but even then they move around in their area they fell safe in.But when they meet up with a doe that is near or in estrus that doe will change the bucks movement as his attention will be toward her or any doe in or near estrus.This then can lead to why a good time to hunt is the "off" hours for most hunters!With less pressure doe can move more and this puts the bucks, looking, back on the move.
