ORIGINAL: GregH
I have never alerted a deer to my presence while in my stand, and I never will. I don't want any deer to know where me or my stand are.What does, fawns and bucks 2 1/2 and younger will often do is try to verify 2 senses. Whereas mature bucks only get just a touch of 1 sense and they're gone. The next time this doe comes past your stand she may avoid it and circle around it. That would be bad if a big boy was trailing her.[:-]
Greg, I'm glad you brought that up and it's a very good point and I was in test mode regardless, I was in the same stand Saturday evening and I'm pretty sure it was the same doe, she came by at 20 yards, from the same area I left her in the am and never looked up, like I said, I never spooked her. One reason I say it's the same doe and I could be wrong they all look alike..lol but this doe had an unusual white patch behind her ears, brighter then most I remember. I still could be wrong but again, I never spooked her so she's not alert for the stand. I hope.
I'll try to get a picture of her when I see her again. It really caught my attention. I once had a "piebald" there, well I use that term loosely because it was a normal colored deer except the tail, snow white, up or down....
And your absolutely correct about mature bucks and one sense and they are gone so why do people not do everything they can to fool all their senses rather than concentrating on one and not the others.
