Help me choose

blemas · Oct 26, 2011

I have 2 vacation days remaining and they are currently scheduled for 11/10 & 11/11 which will stack the 4 day weekend on the 12th and 13th. I don't know how I feel about the full moon on the 10th. Would you take the 4 day weekend and hunt Sat. the 5th through Tuesday the 8th or keep the current set up?

I am leaning towards changing it since I seem to have better luck with shooting / seeing bucks earlier in the month but I am open to any ideas / theories.

What says you?

DJK Frank 16 · Oct 26, 2011

Not sure what kind of area you hunt, for me I would have to hold off and hope for some more corn to be taken off. Right now in my area it's doubtful we are going to see a lot of rutting activity because most of it is going to happen in the corn. Don't get me wrong, I like some corn on later in the season, but not all of it.

If it were me, I would keep it 10th-13th, just because I think some of the bigger mature bucks will have already bred, and then be back up on their feet and looking for another hot doe. But, in all honestly, you aren't going to go wrong with any of those days you have to choose from.

Schu72 · Oct 26, 2011

Any day in November can be a great day, but I'm putting my money on the first week versus the second.

I'll be in my best spot Nov 3rd-6th.

Gern186 · Oct 26, 2011

I'm banking all my money on the 5th thru the 8th......that's the days I'm taking.

cotty16 · Oct 26, 2011

I was looking at the 11th but that full moon has me nervous. I always wait to see the extended forecast, but I'm thinking the 4th - 7th. That means I need two sick days.

epe · Oct 26, 2011

I am going 5th-8th..

rgecko23 · Oct 26, 2011

This weekend!!

RRJJ · Oct 26, 2011

flip a coin

twireman · Oct 26, 2011

This weekend thru the next weekend. I'm not a fan of full moon hunting. But in November any day it could happen.

Darron · Oct 26, 2011

I will be taking a long weekend this weekend and next weekend. I am hunting this Friday and Saturday and next Friday and Saturday. Last year these two weekends were hot and the weather looks like it is going to cooperate. Lows in low 30's and high's in the upper 40's.

saddlepants · Oct 26, 2011

Neighbor at the restaurant after Our search, just told me he saw a buck chasin a doe already.

jagermeister · Oct 26, 2011

I would take your 2 days off on the 14th and 15th. That full moon is going to trigger some serious seeking and chasing. I've never had good luck hunting DURING the full moon, but the days following can be real good. I'll be hunting the 11th through the 18th.

"J" · Oct 26, 2011

Don't overlook Oct 31 as well.... too many good bucks fall on that day around us too be a coincidence.... I'm pulling an all day hunt that day.... Evey year there are numerous booners checked in and all the guys say they had seen lots of movement throughout the day.... so I'm jumping on the Halloween band wagon this year lol....

Buckmaster · Oct 26, 2011

I'm going at it late and taking the 17th thru 20th off.

chetter74 · Oct 26, 2011

lets just all take the whole month off and go huntin:smiley_clap:

saddlepants · Oct 27, 2011

So in unearthing this thread i got to thinkin. J mentioned Oct 31st so I mulled this over in my head for a "why" reason. Then it hit me. I dont fully understand the why but it fits precisely in something I remember from CHarlie Alsheimers seminar I went to... The one main thing I retained was he mentioned that the best days to be out there proven by the numbers is exactly 10 days before and 10 days after the rutting moon. ANd then I recall thats about the time I shot at least two of my biggest bucks and saw a ton of action...Im thinkin thats when I shot my first buck too cause I was new and gung ho and needed someone to tell me when and where. Im thinking I may have to just go out on the 31st myself again.

Gern186 · Oct 27, 2011

saddlepants said:
So in unearthing this thread i got to thinkin. J mentioned Oct 31st so I mulled this over in my head for a "why" reason. Then it hit me. I dont fully understand the why but it fits precisely in something I remember from CHarlie Alsheimers seminar I went to... The one main thing I retained was he mentioned that the best days to be out there proven by the numbers is exactly 10 days before and 10 days after the rutting moon. ANd then I recall thats about the time I shot at least two of my biggest bucks and saw a ton of action...Im thinkin thats when I shot my first buck too cause I was new and gung ho and needed someone to tell me when and where. Im thinking I may have to just go out on the 31st myself again.

No that's not why.....it's because it's halloween and all the ghosts spook the bucks out of their beds and force them to move around!

I killed my buck last year on Halloween and there was a goblin chasing him all around the woods.:smiley_crocodile:

Buckmaster · Oct 27, 2011

The full moon is Nov 10. Things should slow down from Nov 8 thru the 12th with most activity occuring during darkness. Nov. 13 thru 19th should be the prime week this year due to the moon phase.

saddlepants · Oct 27, 2011

Gern186 said:
No that's not why.....it's because it's halloween and all the ghosts spook the bucks out of their beds and force them to move around!

I killed my buck last year on Halloween and there was a goblin chasing him all around the woods.:smiley_crocodile:

That was me!:smiley_crazy::smiley_crazy:

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