Does fog **** up your hunting much?

[John Gryphon]

A genuine question seeing as the UK probably has the common enemy.
For the bloke behind a lens its terrible, the bino/scope glass can see through it to a point but the cam lens is woeful.
I found a young stag in his bed,I stayed with him for just under two hours and the fog lifted to the point of getting a few reasonable pics, 20 others were schiite. One video out of four was just ok. The fog lift lasted 10 minutes then was pushed up from down below again and it was painful watching him browsing through glass without pic opps. Straight up the foreleg Dunny, allow for the steep angle with the guests .300 Winny.....BAM! The gully I named as Pox Gully as that`s where my Sydney mate came out with "the pox" which really hammered him.

In bed with light fog.



Then fog rolled back up as he stood....grrrr.



Then after waiting and waiting and watching intermittent glimpses of him he showed up crossing in the smallest of glades. I gave him a call to pull him up and got a few pics.

 

[stalker.308]

It’s definitely an issue at certain times of year. Coastal fog can be a bigger issue here, beautiful day and suddenly comes from nowhere. One patch I shoot on by a river the floodplain around it dogs up a lot in the autumn.

 

[.25-06]

I think it dulls some of a deers senses, they are more likely to linger out from cover, problem is you may not see them until very close.

 

[Overlay]

In reckon your a Ninja getting so close to so many deer Nice pics mate

 

[Rory]

Yes, had the issue on Sunday, really makes life difficult to get a completely 'visible' animal and ensure the backstop is good etc (especially in an area that one might not be 100% familiar with).

 

[John Gryphon]

they are more likely to linger out from cover,

Yes agreed they do stay out longer in the feed grounds. It was for this reason I went out this arvo tow hours 'before time' and saw nothing ha ha .

getting so close to so many deer

Nah, I go every morning and night (evening) something has to give lol.Its why I buy a lotto ticket every week too.....fail.

 

[Overlay]

Yep. I’m quite happy just to settle in and sit it out and wait in a good spot until all becomes clear again, chill time

 

[John Gryphon]

Right in the middle is a 400 pound stag and boy I was pi$$ed off with the fog.

 

[mike308]

I find the deer are more active in mist and fog so I will always go out but remember safety. You can't see what's behind the deer. A few years ago I was walking along a forestry track in the fog when a stag crossed in front of me,60 yards an easy shot but luckily I didn't take it. As I carried on about 150 yards further on there was a pickup parked with a forestry worker eating his breakfast.

 

[VSS]

We get fog when the rain eases off. If it isn't raining or foggy then there's a sea mist.
That's in the summer.
The winter is somewhat wetter.

 

[TringSaint]

I had 2 challenging stalks last winter. The first was during a snow storm - every time I flipped the scope caps I ended up with a lens full of snow, so only managed to shoot 1 that day.
On another, when I arrived it was clear and crisp, but as the light came up so did the mist and before long I had 50m via max.
I could see deer but not a backstop so had to wait until it cleared for me to see where I was aiming. Eventually I took 2, but if it hadn’t have lifted as much as it did then it would have been zero as I wasn’t prepared to shoot into a blanket of mist and hope for the best!

 

[Overlay]

fog or mist does have the knack of putting you on edge, deer definitely don’t like their ears and eyes shut down

 

[User00035]

Fog has never bothered me that much when stalking. Obviously is cuts the range down but then again it can help the stalker too if you use it to your advantage.
Rabbit shooting at night with IR NV it could be a pain though. Cold winter fogs coming down unexpectedly can play havoc with IR illuminators. And the cold weather effect on the smoke from dirty rimfire cartridges only makes things worse when you're trying to maintain sight of the shot impact in the scope.

 

[John Gryphon]

I stepped out for a snakes at 2am and a look at the stars...what fugging stars?
Its another unseasonal misty fog here,I will still go out at dawn but it does make it tough for viewing the further targets.

 

[Johno2486]

A nice foggy morning on Arran, not a Red to be seen....get that now again.

 

[John Gryphon]

I got fogged badly today, nothing much to report at all except a dim view of a deer.

 

[rem284]

Fog/mist can stop play where I am to the extent that it was included in a famous song. When it is too thick to see effectively in the summer months it means I can go back to bed and get up when normal people do

 

[John Gryphon]

Tail `tween legs, I`m just back in from the hill and the higher I went the thicker it became. Another trip ****ed.