Storm Hunting

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Decieded to not go out this morning and was a little happy I didn't.

The weatherman was right and we got a dump of snow. Still snowing as I type and the grass is almost covered.

I've hunted a few times in blustery / stormy weather but never with much success.

Seems the animals generally "hole up" when the weather turns.

Any of you guys have any luck hunting rough weather for the big game.:confused:
 
I don't think the weather bothers big game animals as much as we think. I generally hunt deer on days when it's raining or snowing (hey, we only have so many days of hunting, eh) and have seen just as many in bad weather as I have in good. The only thing that bothers me about hunting in the rain, is that you can't hear anything more than 10 feet away, so you tend to move your head more to peer around. This can cause all sorts of amusement when the deer sees you first.
 
Deer are always on the move in a snow storm, at least that's my experience. Pain to be out in thou! If you ever drive a back road right after a storm you will always see a lot of travel signs.
 
Storm hunting - that sounds cool. What would that be in German - :confused: Sturmjaeger? Any of you milsurp guys out there, what do you think? Catchy phrase?:D

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Hunt in front of a front...
Just before or the beginning of a weather front the game is on the move. Same thing applies when the weather breaks and the sun comes out, but I don't hunt during a bad storm everything is hunkered down.
 
Last week we were hutning moose. The last few days of the hunt the winds turned and we had 80km/h winds out of the northwest. Calling moose was pointless due to the winds so we walked a few ridges into the wind. We seen moose holed up on the backside of the ridges where the wind was not as strong. Unfortunately we only seen cows, but we did see animals.

Change your tactics and use the weather to your advantage. It might pay off.
 
For blacktails around here if there's a bad storm comming make plans to go. They will be on the move or out of the thick stuff as they don't seem to like trees and branches falling on them - we get nasty weather:eek:

Two years ago I had a nicest buck in my sights that I've seen at what I found later to be just over 300 yards. It was raining crazy hard and blowing 90 kmh plus so a shot was too iffy, and I lost him trying to get closer.:redface: The only reason I found him, is him and his girlfriend were standing in an opening as the timber was too crazy with limbs falling and trees bowed over big time. Can't wait for the November storms. :D
 
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Just before or just after a storm is great......I did read an article in one of the hunting mags though that listed a lot of big bucks were taken during blizzards. The article was called "Blizzard Bucks" can't remember the mag though
 
were just back from a moose hunt in crappy blowing snow and wind for 3 days running..
i was shocked.to see it held the moose up in holding some were...there was no sign of them anywere:eek:
but we were tripping over the crap load of deer that were out..in the same weather:eek:
maybe the moosies are getting to be woosies,in this day and age..

sure had us puzzled..
 
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