Weather Should Affect Your Deer Stand Locations

Should Weather Affect Your Deer Stand Locations?

There are a couple for sure things about deer hunting. They are so sure that you could bet on them and always win. One is the...

The Weather

You can be sure that we have no control of it, it will throw you curve balls all deer season, it will often not be the best weather conditions for deer hunting, and will have major affects on most hunter success.

Yet all you ever here when putting in stand locations is the wind. Yes the wind is a major player in deciding the exact stand location but the weather should be the most important when thinking about the area or what kind of area to hunt.

The weather will most often be the main player in where deer bed, what they eat, and when they eat.

It only makes perfect since to think of weather patterns and how they affect deer behavior when you are putting together a hunting plan.

I could go on and on with ways that weather will affect deer and how they act but for the sake of my fingers and time that I have with my slow typing I will briefly list 2 major weather patterns, ways they affect deer, and areas to hunt.

Hot Weather

Keeps them in cooler places often with water close by, bedding on north cooler slops, in shaded areas and it often suppress movement

Often the only daytime movement is very early morning and late evening.

Most successful hunting stands are very close to bedding, close to water, and a mix of both.

Cold Weather

The opposite end of the spectrum often enhances deer movement, they will consume more food especially higher carbohydrate foods, and bed in areas that block the wind that provide sunshine like south facing slops with an open sky to let sun in.

Often more daytime movement and feeding.

Hunting high carbohydrate food sources, trails from them to warm bedding areas, and in the rut over looking one of the two to catch a cruising bucks in the middle of the day can all be very productive.

Like I said I con go on and on about ways that weather affects deer behavior and patterns. I do have a Masters Deer Hunting Course that does have a hunting the weather course in it that goes into great detail on the subject.

I hope the video and post will get you to start thinking of how weather patterns are affecting deer in your area and help you to put your deer stand in a location to take advantage of what the weather does to deer from one day to the next.

Go get em,

Jacob Schmitt