ORIGINAL: wholelottagobble
Do any of you guys ever wait to walk into your stand until their is enough light to shoot because thier could be deer near your stand when you get there? I have this problem and I'm scared to walk to my stand before daylight because me walking and my flashlight could spook deer as I walk to my stand. Is the after daylight strategy a good one?
See the "cool trick to not spook deer" thread,
http://forum.hunting.net/asppg/tm.asp?m=760290
just because they get up and move around a little doesn't mean they are spooked and won't come back. They are there at that time because they figure it's a safe place to spend the day and more may move in as it gets closer to daylight any way.
Just noise will not normally spook deer out of an area. Everything makes noise from squirrels to other deer, turkeys and possums. Just try to sound like anything other than human and don't give them any other clues like scent or stand clanking noises and you'll be all right.
I carry several types of calls with me when deer hunting as well as this is a good time for a scent trick. I've been busted when walking only to drop immedieately and work a trick. They are not that much different from you or me. They "flinch" at something unexpected and then stop to try to figure it out. If you give them something they expect to find in the woods to excuse the noise, the smell of a doe, a turkey purr, squirrel bark, or a little buck grunt, something to suit the faub pax committed that is what they WANT TO HEAR so they will convince THEMSELVES it is safe if you just give them an excuse not to leave a spot they like.