If you're in a club or have property, do you keep a sightings/hunt journal with info about each hunt and what you saw, time, gender, age, weather conditions etc.? If so, how extensive or basic?

If you don't have land or a club and hunt public land, do you keep up with similar info maybe to track wind-weather-moon and such?

We log in the sightings after each hunt in the comments section of our sign out sheet. Don't log in weather conditions but probably should.

We have a small amount of property that we hunt, started keeping a journal the first year I hunted it and that was how I was able to establish the time frame of the rut there. I keep up with the temp, the weather(windy, raining, etc..) what was seen, or if any new scrapes or rubs are found, any scent used, and type of calling that was done.

I also log anything were noting from the trail cams as well.

I use to keep a small journal years ago when I hunted a parcel of private land. I kept up with weather conditions, moon phase and sightings, (sex of deer, what they were doing, which way they were headed, etc). I also documented signs that were found such as scrapes & rubs. After a couple of years, I quit doing it due to knowing the land and the tendencies of the deer. Thanks for asking about this, I might have to start doing this again.

I'm sure NH or MB could give you more info as we are strongly encouraged to keep this data as part of our participation in the state DMP. It doesn't require weather data, it's strictly deer sightings, broken down by gender and adult/fawn. It's my understanding that the entire purpose of this data is to allow charting over time. The data itself may not tell you much in year 1, but analyzing several years of observations on a graph should be able to give you an idea which direction your deer here is headed.

On a personal level, I keep up with sightings, but our club does not. I note the date, location and count the number of does, fawns, and bucks. On the bucks, I put them into a few categories: Shooter, borderline shooter, racked, spike/button and note whether I've seen the buck before or not. If I'm not sure, I don't count it as different. If I see the same deer more than once in a day, I only count it as 1. If I'm not sure, I don't count it.

I keep it in the notes section on my iPhone. I keep a running total. At the end of the hunt, I take a screen shot so I have it in my pictures. Then, on the next hunt, I update the note with the new date, location and number of sightings and adjust the running total. Again, I always taking a screen shot before the next hunt.

So, at the end of the season, I have total the number of deer sightings for the year, the number of different bucks I saw, how many of the different bucks were racked, borderline shooter, or shooter.

I've only done this for the past couple of years. I don't keep us with weather. I just do it for fun.

I track all said data from my cams. I use weather underground and feed a massive spreadsheet. I am such a nerd.

My brother kept a log book of sightings of deer off of our property and it really shocked me how the buck doe ratio was. I figured it would be about 8:1 but after his log from last year I think we were at 3:1. Really pretty cool to go back and look at your population and see if your helping things or not management wise

I've thought about keeping a personal journal, but i wouldn't want to keep it where everyone on the club can see what i've been seeing and where i've been hunting. Talking about ruining a honey hole.

Our club logs pertinent information on a harvest record kept in camp( Buck/Doe, est. age & weight, weather, time, stand location/property )but not sightings. What gets shared about " what did you see?" is word of mouth and subject to edit....