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BowEd:
Maybe some of you go by this or at least keep track of it.Supposed to come in the middle of this week.Meteor shower too.
The bucks are beginning to roam pretty well here lately anyway already.

TimBo:
I usually just go when I can go...but I do have Wednesday evening free.  Maybe knowing this will make me a bit extra alert!  Probably more important to hear the bucks are roaming, but interesting info anyway.

BowEd:
Temperature changes I think are the biggest determining factors in timing of movement of some of these animals like coon and deer for instance.The colder the sooner they move before dusk.The hotter the later.There's always exceptions though but generally so.Cats and coyotes are constantly on the move no matter how cold it gets.Especially at night where they have more advantage over rabbits and mice.In fact more so the colder it gets.They are hungrier.
The deer will still bed down to ruminant and conserve energy in the warmest part of the day as they've always done.
In the end it's all about their bodys' BTU's.
As far as scent hanging in the air goes barometric pressure can be a determining factor also.Low pressure it'll want to drift more and high pressure it'll stay lower to the ground.
Temperature can get in the determination also.Ecessive heat will make it rise especially cat hunting in the day time on a trail over rocky terrain.Hot thermals in the sun.Cold will hold it down to a degree.Coon hunting all over these states made me aware of that in all types of weather.Dry,wet,cold,hot,raining,frosty,or snow covered.Windy or calm.Of course for trailing hounds a little moisture is desirable also.That's why I've always loved hound hunting on the snow.
All this acquired info comes from decades of hard trail and treehound hunting year round.
As far as full moon at night determination of movement goes many think full moon coon don't move well.I disagree with that.Same myth about don't hunt with an easterly wind.You just have to have a good enough hound out there.Good layup dogs come in handy.Deer move very well on a full moon too.Even squirrels in the tress moving at night during a full moon.

PaSteve:
Thanks Ed. Some quality information right there.

BowEd:
It does'nt make sense to have everything perfect before you hunt.It's why they call it hunting.Doing the best you can is what counts.Just being aware is good enough to sharpen your senses to not waste your time.
Too windy or raining too hard can put the kybosh on a lot of my deer hunting.Deer IMO don't like it either.It makes them nervous from the noises.Plus with higher winds the deer can smell a person from a long ways off.Of course your gonna see a big buck during the rut roaming in the feezing rain though.Nothing stops them from their mission.
On my 30 acres of hunting ground that is'nt farmed on it is on 2 parts.The small odd shaped areas with white lines around them are either crp [grass] or woods.An odd shaped piece running along a wash approximately 1/4 of a mile long and approximately 150 yards wide with mature trees and newly planted trees along it with a little patch of woods of a couple of acres on 1 end.That stretch encompasses only 17 acres.I do hunt along the fence line that has trees along it too to fill the balance of the 30 acres.Total of farm with row crop and hay added is approximately 85 acres.What I call an inside 80 with no roads along it.Just a half mile driveway to the yard.The wide angled white line is my driveway to the yard.The hammer shaped squared piece is the wooded buffer strip along the wash which encompasses most of my hunting ground.
Advantage for me here is that I have control over this area,but across the fence I don't which is hunted also.It's taken me years to weed out locals from walking over top my ground through hunting season before I came.I had to call the game warden once on account of an Amish shooting a large buck on my side of the fence line before.Putting up NO HUNTING signs every block along my fence lines to get my point across.
Disadvantage is that a small area like this can get over hunted [spooking deer out] unless it is hunted correctly from many different stands and taking notice of deer activity.

To put my hunting season into perspective if I get 4 decent shots at close range through an approximately 60-70 day bow hunting season with 1/3 of those days a no go because of weather or something else and multiple sittings in the stands I'm doing good.Those are the odds.In more detail that's around 1 shot every 12 to 15 sittings in a tree stand or blind.Hundreds of hours,but as hunting can go sometimes the stars can align and success can come sooner without exactly knowing when.That's why they call it hunting.
If it was easy I guess everyone would be doing it.
Companies selling miracle tools for success are grossly over rated to the point of fraudulance without the basics of hunting used,which if used properly will get the job done on it's own.

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