DecoCast: Know when to go.
Hour by hour deer movement for your ground, for the next two weeks. It tells you the best window and shows why it’s up or down.
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Today, hour by hour
Tonight’s window opens at five.
Our test ground, NY
- TodayOct 2559
- MonOct 2659
- TueOct 2761
- WedOct 2862
- ThuOct 2961
- FriOct 3061
- SatOct 3166
59Good
Sunday, Oct 25
Morning or evening
Best 5:00–6:32 PM83
High confidence
Why it’s up · weather +0.6 pts
- Warm−1
- Cool+1
When to sit
Drag across the chart to read any hour
5:45 PM87Best window
- Morning76
- Midday40
- Evening73
Read the hours as a table
| Hour | Movement | Wind from | Temp |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 AM | 4 | NE 2 mph | 29° |
| 6 AM | 5 | SW 2 mph | 30° |
| 7 AM | 70 | S 3 mph | 29° |
| 8 AM | 72 | W 1 mph | 31° |
| 9 AM | 60 | WSW 2 mph | 36° |
| 10 AM | 48 | WNW 3 mph | 42° |
| 11 AM | 40 | S 3 mph | 50° |
| 12 PM | 37 | S 3 mph | 56° |
| 1 PM | 36 | SSE 2 mph | 61° |
| 2 PM | 38 | SSE 4 mph | 64° |
| 3 PM | 50 | S 3 mph | 65° |
| 4 PM | 64 | SSE 4 mph | 66° |
| 5 PM | 80 | SSE 5 mph | 64° |
| 5:45 PM | 87 | ESE 4 mph | 61° |
| 6 PM | 82 | ESE 3 mph | 58° |
| 6:36 PM | 70 | E 4 mph | 55° |
| 7 PM | 6 | W 5 mph | 51° |
Real app output from our test ground in New York. Your ground and your forecast will differ.
Where to sit
Every stand, every sit, by the wind.
DecoCast ranks your stands for each sit from the hourly wind and the winds each stand hunts.
Morning
Movement 76 · S 6 mph
- Skid roadGo
- Hayfield ladderMarginal
- Saddle standSkip
Evening
Movement 74 · NW 11 mph
- Saddle standGo
- Hayfield ladderGo
- Draw ladderGo
Real app output from our test ground in New York. Your ground and your forecast will differ.
The rut runs on a calendar.
The rut
Which phase of the rut you’re in.
Worked out for your latitude. Tap a phase to read it, or set your own peak date if you know it better.
Peak breeding Nov 14
Seeking · Oct 24 – Nov 4
Bucks widen their range and cruise between doe bedding areas, scent-checking scrapes and trails, more and more in daylight. Midday movement climbs toward its peak of the year. Hunt funnels and downwind edges of doe bedding; stay later in the morning, and all day once the middays come up.
- Midday movement
- 462.0x a normal midday
- Length
- 12 daysends 10 days before peak
How DecoCast works
- The number
- Every number is a 0–100 index, not a percent. 50 is an average hour of legal light on a typical early-season day. Higher always means more bucks on their feet, so dawn and dusk stay on top. A dry day at peak rut rates about 66.
- What goes in
- The hourly forecast for your ground (wind, temperature, pressure trend, rain) from Open-Meteo, sunrise and sunset, the moon, and the rut’s phases for your latitude and date. No AI and no guesses about your season dates.
- What it’s built on
- Buck GPS-collar studies. The rut lifts midday movement most, peaking about a week before peak breeding. Weather is a small, capped nudge, except steady rain (which can cut the chance by half) and cold after the rut.
- When it says sit all day
- From about 19 days before peak breeding to a week after, unless rain or wind takes the middle of the day.
- What it can’t do
- See your deer. It forecasts the odds a buck is on his feet, not where he is. Your hunt log saves the forecast with every sit, so you can see how it matched.