Northwest wind, cobalt blue skies = Birds.

It's been my experience that hunting in the rain is generaly a complete and miserable waste of time.

ive never liked hunting in the rain until this year. so far on rainy days this year Ive harvested a lot of birds. and as hhguide said I love bow hunting on a late october day in the rain or snow.

I love hunting in the rain, the birds fly all day. I have had some of my best hunts in the rain, but it has to be a slight drizzle. Actual rain or pouring rain will shut the birds down, but if its sprinkling on and off all day or slightly raining all day its game on. The best thing about the rain is the fact that all the fair weather hunters arnt around.

I had a lengthy conversation about this very topic with an avid duck hunter friend of mine two days ago while hunting....in the rain. We couldn't remember the last good shoot we had in the rain. Drizzle, sleet, snow, ya bring it on, but plain old rain seems to cause them to hunker down.

If you like hunting in the rain you would LOVE huntin with colbalt blues skies and a slight nw wind with mid 20's for a temp.

sunny blue skies, Ducks fly lower!

Rain is my ideal weather for hunting. Not a down poor ,but a nice light rain to make it quiet walking through the woods. For duck hunting I have found that the ducks fly lower and decoy easier. My greatest ducking hunting memory is my dad and I going out in the rain and shooting our limit of mallards.

Box - You know what I think of hunting in the rain! My stuff is still wet after last Fridays all day medium to heavy rain. The birds that day came into the lake but they never decoyed and they would not get back up. The birds were low but they wanted no part of what we had to offer. The next two days were not rainy and the same birds really came into the decoys and we had the just about the same setup. I think I will sleep in when it rains from now on but I will be out if it is cold and snowing.

Sounds like just about every other debateable issue. Some guys like the rain others do not. Strange but both sides sound like they have had the experience to prove why they like rain or blue sky.

Which at face value, those staements don't make any sense but to each his own. I'm on the side of rain but will hunt under all condidtions. What else am I going to go do?