Bucks will be back next year. I don't think their memory is that good. LOL! But they do learn from individual experiences and when they hit their 4th year and more, they're about a genius IQ at times.
The word about seeing deer from skidders is correct, but NOT on the first or second day. Usually it's a few days, even a week and the deer start to get desensitized towards such activity. Nowadays a week a long time because of new equipment and methods, they can do things much faster than they could years ago. The days of cable chokers and one man skidder puller teams are the way of the Dodo. Now they have grapple skidders. I've known several people to have "seen" deer from their skidders in the middle of the day.
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