Most anyone that grew up or worked on any form of dairy or cattle farm knows an old saying by heart. One makes hay when the sun shines.
There’s a handful of ways one can take that. Any way you look at it, though, it comes back to getting things done when need meets opportunity. When the two meet, that is when it’s effective to act.
Sure, one can do it outside of those windows, but odds are that it either won’t work at all or not as consistently well. Farmers learned to wait for the two to meet and then make that one of their top farming priories during that window of overlap. After all, one is slave to the weather and there is nothing farmers or anyone else can do to change that.
It’s the exact same in hunting. As I type, it’s late January, it’s overcast and the snow is melting, as we just got out of about a week stretch of legit winter weather and are now seemingly back to spring. Despite the light rain and overall gray, as it applies to getting set for next season’s success, now is time for us to fill the haybarns for the coming season, as the “sun” is