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Old 12-01-2010, 11:16 AM
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OntElk
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Deer are differnet creatures during the breeding season as well. I will sit outside on the back deck in summer with a beer in hand BBQing and talk with the deer that feed around the lawn less than 20 yds from me. There is a time when eventually they will run away and become extremely skittish. It has nothing to do with pressure. they have yet to be pressured anymore than all year but come early-mid October they just start becoming much more wary. Eventually by mid-late Decemeber they are back to calm and I can walk out back and they won't run.

You don't need to scare them in other words. They are programmed to become wary during the breeding season no matter what.

Same as turkeys. In the fall you can walk up on a flock and almost grab them it seems sometimes. In the spring during thier breeding season if they spot you 400 yds across a feild they hightail it out of there.
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