Who hunts in the Rain???????

[Hippy]

I was just curious, Who hunts in the rain,  I took a few days vacation and its rained everyday here in Southwest Virginia.  I am seriously considering a ground blind now.

[Pegg]

I hunt in the rain but from the ground but that because I use a climber. The rain does not bother me. plus I can walk a little and be quiet.

[billy shipp]

I love to hunt on good, slow, drizzly days. Your scent and sounds are surpressed by the rain, and I've taken a lot of game on these days.

I have hunted in a downpour, but not by choice.

I find game very active immediately after a long, hard rain. I like to be in the woods before it quits raining, or shortly thereafter.

[snag]

Love hunting in the rain and wind! The Blacktails will be out and about! I am not much of a treestand hunter...think if I was I'd have to have one of those treestand "umbrellas"!

[Paul WA]

If you lived in this part of the country and waited for it to stop raining you wouldn't hunt much...PR

[hawkeye n pa]

Agree with Billy.  And another plus is having the woods all alone.

[Wannabe1]

Yep, if you live in Oregon and hunt the late season, you've only one choice. Hunt or sit at home and dream about it! I choose to get wet.  

[Earl Jeff]

I usually don't hunt in the rain. mostly because of the rain washing blood sign away.

[jer11bravo]

Sometimes I will. I heard bucks will refreshen there scapes right after the rain stops.

[bawana bowman]

I hunt in the rain a lot. See a lot of game activity, and have shot quite a few deer in the rain and plenty of hogs. If in a tree stand I do use a tree stand umbrella. Always thought they were an unnecessary item until about 3 years ago, used one in Alabama because it looked like rain and temp was in the mid teens. Well it did rain.... that thing actually kept me dry!
Now I carry one with me all the time, great for blocking the sun as well as rain. And they make a great little instant ground blind.
   

[Stiks-n-Strings]

I figure by golly I was born wet, I can hunt wet!

[3blades]

I do but not on purpose. This weekend my be wet here too and will go just because.

[Trooper]

I'm a working man so I hunt when I can, if it's raining then I'll hunt in the rain. I even have a recurve set up with an elevated arrow rest and arrows fletched with vains for this purpose.

[tim roberts]

I can choose the dates I go to Montana, but I can't choose the weather.  Yes I will hunt in the rain.

[Landshark160]

Usually not.  I'm colorblind and have a hard enough time with tracking if it's dry.  If I do, I try to hunt somewhere I can see a good ways so hopefully I can see them go down.

[straitera]

Got home Monday night from a weekend hunt. We were the only hunters in the woods because it was raining off/on the whole time. I loved it especially sleeping in my dry tent during heavy nightly downpours. Hunting wet weather will teach you things like what to wear to stay dry in the woods. Saw a lot of animals & plenty of tracks but no deer.

[elkken]

If you live and hunt on the west side of the Cascades you hunt in the rain .... rain keeps things quiet, evergreen, and smelling fresh.  Blood trails can be a bit of a challenge in the rain.

[jhg]

I do and always will. If its going to be a three day downpour thats a hard steady I do consider my approach to the tracking game. It does influence shot/no shot decisions when its raining that much.

Joshua

[Ragnarok Forge]

Western Washington means rain and lots of it.  I just take close shots and make sure to take my time when tracking in the rain.  You can usually find your animal without a blood trail. They break brush, knock over grass, and generally leave some form of obvious path thru the brush we hunt in out here.

[GingivitisKahn]

I'll hunt light rain but not heavy rain.