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I never could get it why we always had to have to hunt them at night. This was never necessary since they hunt through out the day. But their best times in my opinion was when deer were on the move and they would be in those good spots just like bow hunters. their night time movement I think is just their way of not being seen. But day they are just as active in day time as night time . I do know that at night they do use trails or places of that have the least resistance which makes it easier for them to move at night. I have found prints on trails of juveniles in the night in the middle of winter with a big heel to heel spread bare footed. During my hunting scouting I have been growled at in some good prime deer area where I have come home sick. Have gone back to the area of where I was growled at and have found the spot where the creature was crouching down waiting to ambush deer. The growling came from me disturbing their hunting of a bottle neck where deer were strolling to their bedding..I had no idea that the creature was on a ledge of a hill where it was crouch down . When we went back to investigate where I was growled at we learned how these creatures were ambushing deer as they were leaving their bedding. It was the perfect place to ambush a deer and the deer did not have a chance. If it wanted a human like me It could have just taken me out and no one would have known. Instead it warned me and I listen to it's warning while I still payed a price for that warning. So now when I in valleys where there are ridges around me I look hard up around me. I look hard up on those ridges when I am in those valleys when I see a lot of deer tracks on the ground. That for me is my warning to start climbing on top of the ridge and start looking down or just sit down and start scoping.