Jim, There’s been an ongoing debate for years about deer movement related to the phase of the moon.  However, fairly extensive research by multiple scientists hasn’t found any correlation to daytime activity of deer and any moon phase. The number of feeding bouts per day depends more on the quality of forage than the size  … Read more

Ryan, Deer exhibit scrape behavior, especially marking the overhanging branch, throughout the year.  I suspect you were blessed enough to happen on scrapes that were more active than most this time of year. I’m not aware of any “tricks” to encourage deer to be more active during the day.  I don’t think anyone fully understands  … Read more

Andy, There have been multiple research projects that have compared actual conception and fawning dates of free-ranging deer (based on aging the deer fetuses from late harvested does) and several environmental factors such as temperatures, moon phase, etc.  These studies have shown that the majority of deer breed the same time each year if the  … Read more