Around my area coon hunting is very popular. On our family farm and every land adjoining it, coon dogs are ran at least weekly from the start of November to mid February. This has been something that has sort of been a tradition with my family (I have 5 dogs tied up in the yard right now), with my dad and uncles growing up with it. Anyways I'm rambling on from my point of the thread... I have always heard 3 sides of running the dogs during deer season (mainly during November). 1) The farmers---Who cares the deer will be somewhere and if it's brown it's down anyways 2) The people out busting their butts day in and day out deer hunting---Stay out of the area that they are hunting at all costs or just don't hunt until season goes out. 3) This is the one that raised my eyebrows a little...They say if you move during the day then deer bed down and become nocturnal, so if you are out making them move and putting pressure on them once the sun goes down does the oppostie happen? For me anymore I enjoy running the dogs once the first shotgun season here is over, and I still don't like going in areas that I hunt. I don't mess with my farm during the prime stretch of deer season and doubt I ever will. But that 3rd argument of deer being pressured at night to make them move more during the day...any validity to it you think? We once treed a coon 15 yards from my dads shotgun stand the night before opening day. That next morning he killed a doe at dawn from that tree. It seems we are always trying to find an edge on these animals and putting so much effort into being undetected during the day for fear of pushing that big buck into a nocturnal patter, but what if you are putting the pressure on them at night...what happens then? If other areas surrounding you are not recieving a constant supply of pressure, then this would not pertain to you as I would imagine the deer would just move on to the neighbor. However, all land surrounding our farm is heavily hunted (both deer and coon). So whats your verdict? I'm not saying I agree with it, but it has been something I have always kicked back and forth in my head.
