Just had a sit from 2 until now... 25 degrees, winds up to about 30mph and lots of snow at times coming down. (Squalls of the great lake) Anyone have experience with deer movement during snow fall? I think they probably bed down? Consistent with no deer sightings today anyway. I was thinking about getting a seat belt for the stand because it was so windy at times! Thoughts? Thanks, Tom
My experience is they lay low in heavy snow. Up in Maine we had heavy snow all day so hard fresh tracks disappeared in front if me. That was the only track I found all day. But the next day in the same place was like magic there were deer every where it was awesome. We literally got 18" in 12 hours. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
In my experience they don't move when two senses are impaired. In heavy snow and wind their vision and hearing is impaired and movement is minimal. In heavy snow but light wind only their vision is impaired so there will be movement.
Light snow, like light rain, they're moving. Heavy snow, like heavy rain, they hunker down. High winds, rain/snow or not, they don't move much then either. These are good things to me, because it's not much fun hunting during heavy precip. of any kind, and I really don't like hunting high winds.
