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Bortz. “When you start dragging a deer out of the woods, it can get awfully hot in your thinsulate.”
Aheat wave in January is no fun for a deer either. “You take a down parka and walk around in 70 degrees and that is what the deer are feeling,” said Jim Abbott of Centreville.
Abbott and three friends spent Saturday, the last hunting day of the season, looking for deer in Orlean. After shooting a small buck, the group broke for lunch. In spite of the weather they planned to return in the afternoon to see if their luck continued.
Conditions other than temperature can also have an effect on hunting. Moisture levels and food supply may influence the way hunters pursue game. “If there is a drought and a ban on burning, hunters that camp out in the woods can’t build fires,” said Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries employee Julia Dixon.
Furthermore, an abundant mast crop can cause game to stay deep in their habitat, rather than forage for food in more open areas. A mast crop, explained Dixon, means there is a large resource of acorns and berries in the woods. “This year is a pretty good mast crop,” said Dixon.
In Virginia, there are approximately 300,000 licensed hunters. The VDGIF does not
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