maybe it could work....when they are under pressure of rifle season though i highly doubt curiosity will kill them...but if nobody hunts near you give it a wack one day...one day we were sitting silently to see nothing but tree rats....my dad gets up and walks to the right of me to put on a drive for me and made a bunch of noise and a doe came looking for whatever was walking....then she heard my saftey click off!...but i think that was curiosity that made her come from the brush....