ORIGINAL: davidmil
This was a fair chase hunt filmed on the Mussleshell river near Lewistown, Montana. The reason the Whitetails did not run at the dry fired shot. They just do not have much hunting pressure around there.We took two whitetail deer this year in that same general area. Wewalked up to a good rest 80 to 100-yards from them. We were in plain sight & talking to each other.Our deer did not run because theyhad never been hunted before. We both shot & both killed our deer. We were shooting a 300-win mag & a 30-06. The other deer ran out about fifty yards & stopped. They stood there & watched us gut the other two deer. They never did run off. Our deer were killed on private land.Our deer were not in a high fence. They were on a working cattle ranch.Just not enough hunting to make them scared of humans
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And they call it hunting. I call that shooting, target practice or whatever. There are deer in the Northern woods that probably have never seen a hunter, but the hunters will never see them either. Different worlds I guess.
Davidmil, If you look at private land & the large amounts of public land? You can see why so many deer never get hunted. You can on any given day drive up to public land & shoot a deer or several deer. If you want to hunt private land? Most deer will let you shoot at them, before they run off. The reason for this? We are way over-populated with deer.
Thats right too many deer & not enough hunters. We need to kill thousands of deer around here. Mostly does just toget our population back into check.