thoughts on nocturnal deer?

[borrowed time]

Some people think that baiting makes the deer nocturnal. I am passive on baiting, do it if you want, don't do it if you don't like it. I live in one of the highest deer per acre in the state in Outagamie co. and can show you fields in the spring with over 100 deer in a field. In the fall you hardly see a deer before dark, when years ago you saw plenty. Food did not make these deer nocturnal, hunting does and fawns accomplished this feat, in my opinion.

Same up north, used to see does during the rut with bucks following, after all the permits the does are jumpy as hell. Trail cameras show some bucks on scrapes and trails at 12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 11:00, all night time movers, earliest was 7:00 in the evening. No permits were issued for gun hunters in 44 but bow hunters are allowed a doe with license. Evidently the DNR thinks bow hunting for 2 months cannot harvest many deer. Any thoughts?

[Cheesehead]

I think it is the process of natural selection at work. The "day time" deer are dead. Only the "night time" deer have survived and reproduced. One solution, hunt like we did years ago, large gang drives.

Cheese

[ihookem]

Baiting doesn't make deer nocturnal, over baiting does. I am sure a little corn in the woods scattered around makes them move looking for "nibbles' corn. Lots of hunters make deer spooky too especially why up north were they don't see hunters 11 months a year.

[buck460XVR]

I think it is the process of natural selection at work. The "day time" deer are dead. Only the "night time" deer have survived and reproduced. One solution, hunt like we did years ago, large gang drives.

Cheese

I gotta agree. Folks used to get up and move around after 9:00 a.m. opening morning also and kept the deer moving all day. Now everyone has gore-tex down filled  hunting blinds with a Mr. Heater heatin' up their MREs so they don't have to leave all day.(and God forbid, drive the big boy over to the neighbors) Folks say there ain't the Turkeys like there used to be cause 15 years ago they heard gobblin' all day.....now all they hear is a few gobbles in the morning and then nuttin'. I believe the same is true there.......those Toms with genes that made 'em gobble all day are dead. Those with tight lipped genes lived long enough to pass on those genes.