Thread: Fallow activity in winter, different than summer?

Fallow can be easier to hunt in the rain than in the dry. What they don’t like is cold wind.

If it is raining hard, then meh, not much fun for the hunter or the hunted. Fallow go into thick cover in heavy rain (and very hot sun) and you’ll be hard pressed to find them without bumping them. But intermittent rain and showers, or steady light rain, they’ll be feeding on and off throughout the day in cool winter weather.

One of the things about starting out is to simply get out there and learn the deers’ habits. Time on the hill in different weather and seasons at different times of the day is always valuable. Fallow are totally different to reds in their habits, they can be harder or easier to hunt, depending on how you approach the problem. They don’t move around as much as reds and tend to stay within quite a well defined home range, which once you’ve worked that out, can make finding them relatively straightforward.