#430 - The 70 Rule: Why 80% of Your Daylight Deer Repeat Every Single Year with Brandon Barlow

Welcome to the WHTL Podcast, your source for Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests. In this episode, we're back in the studio with Brandon Barlow of The 70 Rule.

We Discuss:

• Up to 80% of daytime deer behavior repeats in the same areas year to year.
• Cameras over corn and field edges produce deer photos, not repeatable data.
• Browse damage at nipple height marks the bedding mature bucks actually live in.
• Mature bucks catch REM sleep in bomb-shelter cover with no vantage point.
• Deep sleep runs 20 to 45 minutes a day regardless of the season.
• A buck's range shrinks with age until he burns into one small daytime spot.
• Fawn spot fade and drop dates back-calculate your property's real rut timing.
• Buck bedding is most consistent in early October and unravels in the full rut.
• Fewer than half of your daylight bucks come back the following season.
• Moon phase has zero measurable impact on daylight deer movement.

And So Much More!

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