Most hunters wish for snow in deer season, an event that makes animals easier to see and much easier to track and trail. Rain, on the other hand, tends to keep deer (and hunters) in their beds.
The recent wet season was particularly problematic for me, because I hunt an escape area and depend on hunting pressure in the lowlands to drive deer into the thick, mountainous cover where I set up. Is a wet season a benefit or a negative for deer hunting? The survey says … it depends.
When Texas’ 700,000-plus deer hunters look back on the 2015-16 whitetail deer season, which begins winding down with Sunday’s close of the general season in the state’s 212-county North Zone, many may remember it for quality over quantity. It was a season in which hunters took fewer whitetails than normal, but the ones they took were above average in body conditions and antler development.
Some, especially those whose hunting areas are in the floodplains of rivers and streams in East Texas, almost certainly will recall it as one of the most frustrating deer seasons they’ve experienced. And that’s if they got to experience it at all; a considerable amount of premier deer country has spent much of the season under water or otherwise inaccessible… [continued]
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