Research suggests that lunar phases have no measurable impact on the timing of whitetail breeding.

“Yeah, that it doesn't affect it at all. I mean, there's no relationship. It's a flat line.”

Extensive GPS and observational research has failed to find a correlation between weather patterns and increased deer movement.

“there hasn't been any research that says weather. And I'm talking about everything from barometric pressure to rain events to temperature drops to all that stuff has. We're talking about collared deer, hundreds of collared deer in some cases in some of these studies and have not seen a correlation”