Lunar Influences on Deer Activity

Why Mature Deer Start Making Mistakes Not the chaos of the rut. The first crack in a perfect season. All month he has been a ghost with a schedule. Same bed. Same food. Same strip of cover. You have him mapped close enough to taste it — and he still will not give you shooting light. Then late October happens. The woods have been quiet enough to lull you. This is the week the game actually changes. He does not blow up into November chaos. He just stops being perfect. He slips. He drifts. He steps out ten minutes early....

Every serious deer hunter knows there's no single magic formula for predicting buck movement. Weather matters. Wind matters. Pressure matters. But if you want to consistently stay ahead of mature deer, you also need to understand the moon and the role it plays in deer activity. That is the foundation behind the MoonGuide. At its core, the MoonGuide is built around lunar position, not just moon phase. The key moments are when the moon is directly overhead or directly underfoot. Those are the periods of strongest gravitational influence, and they line up with the times when deer are most likely to...

November 1st, 2023 is a day that Chad Postle won't soon forget!  "I was actually hunting a different buck", says Chad "I thought my original target buck was bigger, so when this deer showed up on my Reveal cell cam I really didn't change my plans".After hunting a handful of times, Chad came up empty on the buck he was focused on. As the new animal began to show up with more frequency on the trail cameras, Chad's hunting partners began to question him on which buck he should be going after.  It was a beautiful fall evening and the...

Understanding the connection between deer movement and the moon, and why the MoonGuide works so well predicting big buck activity! Man has long understood the effects of the gravitational pull of the moon, even beyond the obvious like the earth’s daily rising and falling ocean tides. This gravitational force also has a profound effect on living creatures. Deer hunters have long looked for a connection between the moon and deer activity. Initially, they looked for a connection between the various phases of the moon and deer movement. However, this connection never seemed to pan out for hunters and, despite continued...