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Old 02-20-2008 | 05:49 AM
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From: Cogan Station, PA
Default RE: Do you Turkey Hunt your deer properties ?

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Am I too paranoid ?
Depends on your situation. In your case, as long as you can hunt seperate properties, and if your deer property doesn't see much human activity outside of hunting season, then I feel your approach is correct.

I turkey hunt on the same property I deer hunt. I live on the property I deer hunt and turkey hunt. We farm/plant food plots on the land we turkey/deer hunt. We take walks on the property we turkey/deer hunt. In a nutshell, are we potentially altering travel patterns/behaviors of the general deer population? Absolutely not (in my case). Deer sightings in general have only gone up in recent years on our property (ironically these past few years have seen the most activity throughou the year on the property. There are certainly core areas I don't travel in/around for the majority of the season, but a large part of our property does get used year round. IMHO, and it's not gospel, and certainly doesn't hold true for ALL properties, but I feel the deer are quite accustomed to the human activity on our land. It has been farmed and lived on for over 100 years. Just my theory. If my land was offsite of where I lived I may be more apt to "tread lightly," but (and I made a post about this earlier) I'm not going to not USE the land I live on to its fullest potential.
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