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Topic: Soluna Tables and/or Barometric pressure
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posted February 04, 2003 08:59 PM
What are your opinions on using Soluna Tables and changes in the barometric pressure durning callings?
I know that trappers pay pay close attention to the pressure and try to have all of their sets in good working order before the storms. Some people say the animals lay up during the lows and are much more active after the low passes through.
At lot of fishermen swear that the soluna tables tell you the best times to fish. Do they work with predators?
What are your opinions on these two issues?
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Leonard
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posted February 04, 2003 09:38 PM
Solunar I occasionally try to reconcile after a hunt, and it's always inconclusive.
As far as barometric pressure, I have a definite opinion. High pressure; meaning clear and cold is good for predators, you can't ask for any better conditions.
Good hunting. LB
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Bud
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posted February 06, 2003 06:03 PM
I can only speak for my experiences in Oregon. Before I moved here I didn't think of such things. It seemed "mumbo-jumbo" to me.
First, I am a skeptic on theories. I had to prove it to myself.
It seemed logical that weather systems would throw everything into a cocked hat so I picked a time when the weather had been stable for a few days. I didn't want to have any preconceived notions so I didn't check the solunar tables.
My two sons and I picked an area(ten mile circle) that had tons of blacktail deer. We loaded extra gas in the back of a pickup and started driving logging roads at noon. We took turns driving at about ten miles an hour(interesting in that my boys were 12 and 13 yrs. at the time and learned to drive).
It was hard not to give up. For twenty-one of the twenty-four hour period we saw NOTHING. For approximately an hour, a couple hrs. before dark, we had twenty deer cross the logging road as we drove. At approx. three o-clock the next morning it started again. In two hours we saw fifty-five deer. This was in the headlights. Using a spot here is called "harassment" by the law. God knows what was moving off to the side. Both times it was almost like turning on a light switch, on- we saw deer, off- we didn't. We stopped our test at exactly noon.
A check when we got home showed that the deer were moving during the peak periods.
If the weather is unstable here Solunar Tables mean diddley-squat. Two or three days of low pressure(insert the words "torrential rain") followed by a dry high pressure means animals moving the instant the rain stops. Period. By the same token, a light-warm rain preceeding a heavy storm means animals moving, no matter what the time of day. This for Oregon. Don't have a clue about Kissmybutt, Kansas.
I guess it's clear that I now believe in this stuff.
Good hunting.
Bud
[ February 06, 2003, 06:07 PM: Message edited by: Bud ]
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