I was doing some pondering the other day and it dawned on me that you folks may be able to help.
I have hunted a specific lease my whole life. One constant has been the lack of afternoon sightings. The property is virtually all hardwood timber. It’s selectively thinned every 8-10 years and it typically has decent bedding scattered throughout, just more scattered the longer it is after a harvest. We have small food plots but we don’t hunt them and they don’t seem to be a daytime attractant per cameras.
What do you make of the boringly consistent observation that morning sightings are so much more numerous than afternoon? This stretches across decades, deer size and sex, all stand locations. What should that be telling me?
I have hunted a specific lease my whole life. One constant has been the lack of afternoon sightings. The property is virtually all hardwood timber. It’s selectively thinned every 8-10 years and it typically has decent bedding scattered throughout, just more scattered the longer it is after a harvest. We have small food plots but we don’t hunt them and they don’t seem to be a daytime attractant per cameras.
What do you make of the boringly consistent observation that morning sightings are so much more numerous than afternoon? This stretches across decades, deer size and sex, all stand locations. What should that be telling me?