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Post by tek4260 on May 28, 2013 16:17:27 GMT -5
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Post by jwp475 on Jun 18, 2013 13:59:22 GMT -5
Your thoughts?
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Post by tek4260 on Jun 18, 2013 22:44:00 GMT -5
I have seen deer do all sorts of strange things that defy "common deer behavior". Haven't really looked thought about it much honestly. I am hardheaded when it comes to hunting. Sit still and quiet is my method. Pretty simple and old fashioned.
I have seen several deer killed by a buddy in high school with a bow in an odd way. He would sit on the rear rack of a four wheeler being driven by a friend along a cut over. When a deer stood up as they rode by, he would step off and as the deer stood and watched the four wheeler continue on past, he would draw and shoot. Worked like a charm. I have also seen the fawn distress calls bring does within feet of us while standing around a truck in an open field. They would run up and stomp at about 10 yards then turn and trot off. Blow the call again and they would wheel around and be right back. I also believe that on a drive with dogs, the best place to be is just out of sight behind the dogs as the deer will circle back close behind them, or at least the bigger bucks will usually.
But, like I said earlier, I'll be high up in a tree still and quiet with my handgun hoping to catch one easing through the woods.
All in all, it is an interesting read and some of it may be fun to try.
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Post by tek4260 on Jun 18, 2013 22:44:41 GMT -5
So what do you think about it JWP?
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Post by jwp475 on Jun 19, 2013 3:23:39 GMT -5
The behavior of deer under the circumstances that you described above I have seen as well. I couldn't get through very much of the write up
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Post by subsonic on Jun 19, 2013 12:34:10 GMT -5
Deer have not struck me as being very intelligent. Particularly young, horny, bucks. Young does aren't much better. Seems like most are "smarter" in a herd than they are alone because they are looking to the old ones for guidance. I could say the same thing about a lot of animals, even human animals......
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Post by tek4260 on Jun 19, 2013 21:31:20 GMT -5
One thing I'll definitely have to try that Jim mentions is the blowing/stomping back. Can't hurt as I am sure I am not the only one that freezes when I am moving and a deer blows at me. They all run off when I freeze, so I can't see what it will hurt to blow back at them!
I'll have to re read the part on camo and see what he said about it. I never wear camo. I rely more on sitting still than worrying about camo. I don't believe there is a camo good enough to mask your movement.
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Post by jwp475 on Jun 20, 2013 2:10:33 GMT -5
They will still take off, deer can smell you know, you also stand up right on 2 feet. Deer aren't fools atl least not the mature ones
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Post by dmize on Jun 20, 2013 22:28:22 GMT -5
In 33 years of hunting I find a deer's curiosity to be intriguing.
I have been plowing and disking fields before and had deer stand in the fresh dirt and watch me,have been brushogging and had them stand in a fence row and watch, took a break when cutting wood with my Grandpa and had them walk out and look and smell around. Also in the rut I have had many many bucks break every "rule" ever written.
And jwp,except for the rut occurences you are very correct, when on a tractor,regardless of what you are doing deer are pretty cool untill the tractor stops.
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Post by tek4260 on Jun 20, 2013 23:36:15 GMT -5
Back when I was about 15, I went hunting in the hills of MS for the first time. Up until then all my hunting was in the delta and you just didn't see the number of deer that I saw that day in the hills. I was hunting on a food plot in a pine thicket that was probably 30 yards wide by 300 yards long and when I shot a deer, there were about 40 others in the plot. At the shot, about half of them ran off and the other half stuck around. I got out of the shooting house and went to walk down to the deer, leaving my rifle in the stand. The deer I shot was about 200 yards down the lane and the closest deer was about 50 yards from the stand. Well as I go walking down the lane, the deer didn't run off. I managed to walk within about 20 feet of the first deer and it hadn't run off. I decided to walk back and get my rifle in case one of them decided to take me on.  I walked within feet of a few of them while walking to get my deer. I wish I had a video of it. |
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Post by magnumwheelman on Jun 25, 2013 7:46:42 GMT -5
I used to go "up north" ( northern Minnesota ) to party hunt with my FIL, many years ago... the MRS property owner always went out in the party, but had her own special stand... this particular year, everyone had bonus tags, so we could shoot about 12-14 deer between the party... this gal shot literally 10 of those deer... snow was on the ground, & by the 10th deer, the area around her stand looked like a war zone, blood everywhere, plus all the foot traffic associated with dragging out the previous deer (s)... yet the deer kept going right by her stand... you'd think all the smell of blood, & human traffic would have turned them down the trail further, but apparently, they opted to go through there, even though it must have smelled like deer death  |
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Post by flyfisher66048 on Oct 27, 2013 21:11:16 GMT -5
I was shooting at a 3d archery range a few years ago, and a small buck started stomping and blowing at me. I stopped moving and blew back at him while moving my bow up and down. My arrows had white fletching, I thought it would look like a deers face. The buck kept blowing and stomping at me, as I moved forward blowing and stomping at him. I managed to get with 25 yards. It might not work every time, but is it worth a shot.
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