Moon and the rut...

[PassnItOn]

May be showing my complete ignorance of deer hunting but is there really anything to this and if so please explain.

I have several buddies saying moon will "have the bucks on lock down" or will "will kick rut into high gear" - I don't know if I believe any of it, so deferring to the experts.

[DFWPI]

My thoughts are like the mailman, sleet, blah blah and blah, hunt, because hard to kill them from the house, well most times anyway.

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[HighwayHunter]

Just go hunting when you can lol


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[SmTx]

There's 4 months of deer season with bow and general and roughly a full moon a month.

Though, I noticed a deer I've only had around in the mornings show up this evening on camera.. not chasing though.

[3rdCoastHunter]

The moon is the biggest scam in hunting right in front of ozonix - it literally does nothing

[Oleman]

Maybe the moon not have any effect on hunting, but explain why all the does are laying on /beside the road? That is because the bucks are running them during the night when there is light (bright moon). Then the bucks rest during the day...

[doghouse]

Need to ask mother nature. In Mills county the peak rut is within a few days of Thanksgiving for the last 50 years. Also have a second rut around Christmas for the yearlings that have become of age.

[Passthrough]

Moon has nothing to do with rut. Happens same time every year…within a few days…of your particular area.

[Native Texan]

Don't know if it affects the rut, but I do see a lot of fresh deer tracks in the logging roads during the full moon. I also see a lot of deer in the middle of the day then.

[E.TX.BOWHUNTER]

Don't know if it affects the rut, but I do see a lot of fresh deer tracks in the logging roads during the full moon. I also see a lot of deer in the middle of the day then.

I hunt all day around the full moon. On new moons I take a lunch break. That is of course I am on public land. I hunt thru lunch then and let people get the deer up and moving.

[E.TX.BOWHUNTER]

Don't know if it affects the rut, but I do see a lot of fresh deer tracks in the logging roads during the full moon. I also see a lot of deer in the middle of the day then.

I hunt all day around the full moon. On new moons I take a lunch break. That is of course I am on public land. I hunt thru lunch then and let people get the deer up and moving.

[3ChordTruth]

Just go hunting when you can lol


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X2, and if that’s not another Wise Old Indian Saying, well, it should be.

[brokeno]

bucks don't care what the moon is when a doe is in heat. Back in the old days in south Texas we use to rattle at night with a full moon with shotgun with buckshot. Rattled up lots of bucks at night during full moon but never shot one.

[HighwayHunter]

X2, and if that’s not another Wise Old Indian Saying, well, it should be.

I agree. I’m not enough of a woodsman to say whether or not it really has an effect, nor do I care. I have limited time to hunt so if the moon decides to crash into the earth and I can get in the woods that day I guess I’ll be driving around it to get in my stand lol.


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[dustoffer]

The science I have read says that the rut is based on the length of daylight as perceived by light entering the deer's eye.