Hunting deer in rain or snow

**DMcC** · December 5th, 2009, 06:45 PM

How about hunting deer in the rain or snow. Are they moving about? Or do they hunker down?

**fingers80002** · December 5th, 2009, 06:46 PM

Rain sucks, they bed tight...

Snow, not so bad, they tend to move with snow..

**riverpirate** · December 5th, 2009, 06:52 PM

ill be going monday , hope the snow sticks till then. they seem to move in the snow and they are easier to see.

**Searcher67** · December 5th, 2009, 06:57 PM

I wa out there today in this mess! Didn't see a thing. After awhile you couldn't even see more than 20 yds!.

Snow's a good thing when the ground is all white, when its just a dusting those deer will blend in like nobody's business! This is a good snow its sticking to everything, now if it only hangs around til Monday the woods will be alive with activity. Hunt the far reaches, away from the parking lots if your on public land! You'll need to walk to find them, cause they are staying away from the roads and trails right now!

**dk99358** · December 5th, 2009, 09:54 PM

It really depends on how heavy the precipitation is. A heavy rain will usually cause them to hole up somewhere, a light rain doesn't seem to bother them. Same with snow, but if it's heavy, then you can't see very well as already mentioned.

I remember a comment by John Wooters about hunting in the rain. He felt the best reason to be hunting in the rain was because that way, you were out there when it quit. His observations over the years indicated that deer move as soon as the weather lets up.

**Coop650** · December 6th, 2009, 12:16 PM

The first day in the pouring rain I had two doe move through the field I was watching. I shot the second one at 7:45, neither one was pushed. In fact the one I shot stopped in the only thick patch to take a poop before I shot it, lol.

I won't archery hunt in the rain because the risk to lose the blood trail is too great.