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Scott Brooks replies:

December 5, 2006 |

One of the biggest things you hear discussed in deer hunting, is that certain lunar cycles are more conducive to deer hunting. Most fisherman should be familiar with these cycles as they’ve been discussed in the fishing arena for years.

The basic tenet is this: Animals tend to feed when the moon is either overhead or underfoot. I would say that there seems to be some anecdotal evidence to support this theory, but my personal experience is such that I can neither confirm or deny the theory.

I have noticed though, in reference to the moon, that the brighter (fuller) the moon is, the less I see deer during the day. My theory for this is that deer feed more on nights when they can see better than on nights when they can’t see well.

What seems to matter the most, though is the weather. If it’s a night when the bright full moon is obscured by clouds, it has the same effect on deer feeding cycles as does a clear night when there is a new moon (no moon).

If the wind is blowing hard during the supposedly peak moon phase feeding times, the deer will lay low. If the wind lets up during a supposedly bad feeding time, the deer will move.

I wonder if there is any correlation between weather and human behaviors in the market. Intuitively, there seems to me that there would have to be. For instance, I’ll bet that there was a lull in trading activity from Missouri due to the ice storm.


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