October Lull...

As long as I've been hunting there has been talk of the "October Lull" and even though I've seen a lot of deer during the early season but I'm on the band wagon.  As the month of October begins the temperatures are normally still fairly warm here in Indiana, the crops begin to come out, food sources change for the deer and there's a full moon around the second week which encourages the deer to feed all night and not move during the day.  They are transitioning off the green soybean fields to alfalfa and hard mast to get the carbohydrates they crave as they begin to put on fat for the winter.  This year it seems that certain oaks are dropping lots of acorns but not all of them are.  So looking for the right tree is more difficult than normal as the deer are bouncing around every other day making patterning them tough.  The bucks that were showing up during daylight have vanished from the fields and from the cameras almost as a whole.  We've seen a few does but no more mature bucks on hoof.   Which was expected, but every year I think it will be different but it never is.  We've hunted hard the first two weeks of the season.  There have been some high points and low points, but no deer on the ground since opening day of the Urban season.  We've since had 5 sits with not a single sighting of a deer.  These sits are very boring, demoralizing, and start to make you questions your stands and plans.  This weeks video will be clips from the last 4 or 5 hunts we've had.  Looking forward to cooler temperatures and Halloween!!!  Hopefully the next clip will show a few big bucks on the ground.

Thanks for watching! -ASMS-