We've never keep much in the way of deer records but I was able to pull the dates off of 27 bucks that we have killed over the years and plot them against the moon phase. There really were the bigger deer because most of the dates were taken off of photographs and we just haven't always photographed smaller deer.
One was my nephew's first deer, a 6-point killed by my nephew and two 7 points. The rest were 8's or larger. Many of these were really big rack bucks including 5 record book deer that dad has killed over the years and one that grossed 146 but didn't make either book. They were all killed in the woods without bait or sent lures.
6 Points - 1
7 Points - 2
8 Points - 15 including an 8+2
9 Points - 3
10 Points - 6 including a 10+2 and a 10+5
I wish I had a lot more data but I do have a better idea when I'm going to be hunting this fall. The percentages are how much of the moon's disc was visible so 0% is a new moon and 100% is a full moon. The really amazing thing is that out of 27 bucks not a single one was killed when the disc was between 32% and 71%. This based entirely on how we like to hunt so it might not work as well for others. Based on everything I've read and heard this isn't totally surprising but I did not expect such extremes.
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