| From: George D. Stout
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| Date: 16-Aug-17 |
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Posted for your perusal.
http://ecosystems.psu.edu/research/projects/deer/news/2017/wandering-in-the-moonlight
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| From: olddogrib
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| Date: 16-Aug-17 |
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Interesting. Might have been even more so if she'd compared October to the mid-November to mid-December timeframe. I guess good scientific technique says minimize variables and you'd wonder if any differences were purely rut related and independent of any lunar effect...but still, her hunter grandfather provided the null hypothesis. I've always tended to see more deer numbers in the September (early bow season) with a sharp fall-off in October that's completely unrelated to mast, as best I can tell....at least where I hunt. Lots of mysteries will go unexplained until deer learn to talk. It's been well documented that the deer in the Piedmont and Northwest section of NC show the classic onset of the rut in mid-late November. It's at least a month earlier on our coast and wildlife biologists will corroborate that. I've hunted Washington?Hyde counties years ago and seen it... hard to sell that with "photoperiodism"!
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| From: olddogrib
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| Date: 16-Aug-17 |
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The other piece of the puzzle that GPS wouldn't necessarily provide is where they were at when they moved. It's also been noted that deer get up from their beds during the day...a deer moving, but never leaving thick bedding cover might as well be on Mars for most hunters.
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| From: RonG
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| Date: 17-Aug-17 |
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I even come out when the moon is full......
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| From: George D. Stout
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| Date: 17-Aug-17 |
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I'm neither dismissing the study or endorsing it. I posted it for folks to read. Reading is learning and thinking is even better. Not everything written is fact, an not everything written is fiction. If you are already biased toward the discussion one way or another, then don't bother. Pretty simple.
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| From: kokosing
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| Date: 17-Aug-17 |
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Does the moon change bucks behavier during the rut? When I was a kid hunting Racoons in the full moon, finding a good track was hard hard to find.
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| From: Kodiaktd
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| Date: 17-Aug-17 |
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"Not everything written is fact, an not everything written is fiction." Very true.
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| From: jk
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| Date: 17-Aug-17 |
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Craig...fine photo!
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| From: RonG
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| Date: 17-Aug-17 |
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The farmers used it when planting for a few hundred years.
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