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Tomorrow is a holiday for me but is supposed to be rainy.

Anybody here ever have success under such conditions?

I love to still hunt mountain sides in the rain. It's what I'll be doing tomorrow! ...even though it is supposed to be thunderstorms...

I remember shooting my first big buck when I was a kid, perched in a cedar tree, while it was pouring rain.

Hunting in the rain is great. The first mz buck that I ever killed, was in NM in the rain. The deer were out and about and it was quiet sneaking. I am old now and don't give a damn enough to do it anymore!

For many years I hunted in the rain, it was a miserable experience if you hunt out of an open tree stand like I do, all your gear gets soaked ( huntin out of a nice dry blind would be different of course) but I didnt ever notice any better deer movement if anything the deer movement was less......Good luck....Hb

adjust. i take two rifles if going on a hunt where it might rain. one scope and one with peeps. be aware that deer as well as you will move quieter. that is if you move.
if hunting from a stand, they won't change habits too much, if anything will feed longer before bedding down.

besides, being in the woods in the rain, if it isn't a downpour, isn't a bad experience in itself. if it rains, you will also have less competition if you are on public land.

I have seen some very good bucks in a gentle mist, but deer don’t have eye brows and a heavy rain gets in their eyes and that inhibits their vision and their movement. After the rain though, everything on four feet will be on the move. I was in Minnesota one Friday in a driving rain but it was coming to an end. I was bow hunting in eastern Wisconsin that weekend and was in my stand when the rain let up here. Within half an hour deer were everywhere.

I don't hunt in the rain. Hunting is suppose to be fun.Getting soaked isn't

I have had great success hunting in the rain. That said, it it's raining hard I stay inside. Deer's sense of smell and hearing is degraded in hard rain enough they typically don't move much. In a soft rain they come out and seem to feel safe.

I normally don't hunt in rain, but I have. I've hunted in just about every condition known to the Greater Ohio Valley. Normally, if it looks like a heavy rain is coming, I'll try and hunt before it hits, and then I'm back out just before it starts to clear.

I've got a luxury box that lets me sit out of the elements and survey 2 1-acre pastures. Sometimes, if the rain has been really bad, a slight break will bring the deer out. I've nailed them within a half-hour of a toad strangler with horizontal rain.

Hunting in the rain is great. The noise of still hinting is minimized. The deer will be holed up. You can get close in the rain.

That's the camp I'm in too.

I don’t like to hunt or deep sea fish in the rain.

I grew up in Louisiana, most successes are in the rain! memtb

I've never had success in a moderate to hard rain, but have had success right after a rain let up. I've also had good hunts in light, drizzling rain, so long as the wind isn't howling. I've had even better luck with pigs on the rainy days, as they seem to let their guard down much more than the deer. I can think of several rainy hunts where I sat in one spot and shot 4-5 hogs over the course of a couple of hours.

This mirrors my experience. I killed my largest whitetail in a light drizzle during the peak of the rut.

I'm whitetailing for longer than I care to admit. Took some of my bigger animals in normal rain conditions.

Good luck.

-Ken

That's my preferred hunting condition. Most of the biggest bucks I've killed were in the rain. Get out there and get it done.

Tom

Rain = scoped encore pistol in .243 and an F-150. Coca Cola, maybe an old rerun of star trek on netflix. Killed several that way. Nice n dry

Dont know how heavy the rain will be tomorrow but thx a bunch for the replies.......I will be in the woods.

I've killed some of my best bucks in the rain.