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The Deer are getting Too Smart

Old 12-15-2011 | 06:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Muley Hunter
I guess numb butt can be hard. I only get one when I take a dump.
Must be Old Age, I get on and get off, the Venesion helps make it faster I think, the mule deer meat must slow it down as there slow.....just kidding Muley, I appreciate your comments, there all in good humor.
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Old 12-15-2011 | 06:30 PM
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Work my butt off in a tree stand.......sitting in a tree stand from 6:30 am untill 5pm is work, ny butt will tell you so. And I dont know how many Whitetails you have where you hunt, im sure there's some, but Mule Deer are Stupid. I've watched many a hunting show to see a hunter stalk a Mule Deer and see them just stand up, look and be shot. A Whitetail Deer would be long gone befor you ever get close enough for a shot at a bedded whitetail. And them Mule Deer bound away like there Nancys, they Bounce, a Whitetail will run away so fast that it will make your head smoke like the Forum is now working for you, Love Ya Muley
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A bouncing deer is harder to hit, than one running flat. I can nail a WT just about everytime on a flat run. depending on distance and led, i have somersaulted a few in my day. if I have a clean open shot.
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Old 12-15-2011 | 07:29 PM
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Looks to me like if deer had the ability to get smarter, wouldn't they wise up and stay out of the roadways or stop eating from bait piles?
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Old 12-15-2011 | 07:35 PM
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Looks to me like if deer had the ability to get smarter, wouldn't they wise up and stay out of the roadways or stop eating from bait piles?
Cant Hunt over bait piles here, if so it would be easy to get a deer, as for deer in the road ways, our deer are smart here, they actually look both ways befor crossing the roads.
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Old 12-15-2011 | 07:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Breechplug
Cant Hunt over bait piles here, if so it would be easy to get a deer, as for deer in the road ways, our deer are smart here, they actually look both ways befor crossing the roads.
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Not supposed to bait here either but people still do it.
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Old 12-15-2011 | 09:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Breechplug
Cant Hunt over bait piles here, if so it would be easy to get a deer, as for deer in the road ways, our deer are smart here, they actually look both ways befor crossing the roads.
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Really?


State Farm Insurance estimates that each year more than 63,000 deer are hit and killed in New York, more than 28,000 in New Jersey and 10,000 in Connecticut, said Victoria Hodson, a company spokeswoman.
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Old 12-16-2011 | 03:08 AM
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State Farm Insurance estimates that each year more than 63,000 deer are hit and killed in New York, more than 28,000 in New Jersey and 10,000 in Connecticut, said Victoria Hodson, a company spokeswoman.
Those are deer from the city, there not as smart as the ones from the country part of nys. Even though they look, it's the underestimating the speed of the vehicles comming at them that takes em out.
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Old 12-16-2011 | 03:23 AM
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Think of a human 3 year old, that has to cross the road for food or shelter. Do you really think we would do much better at that age? Even 4-5, how much older is a deer supposed to act for their age?

If deer had a mother that was 20 years old to teach them right from wrong as we do. Do you really think as many would be hit?

Oh you guys think they should be smarter than us. I am a firm beleiver that many are and if they had guns hunting us back. they would have a higher success rate.

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Old 12-16-2011 | 05:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Muley Hunter
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State Farm Insurance estimates that each year more than 63,000 deer are hit and killed in New York, more than 28,000 in New Jersey and 10,000 in Connecticut, said Victoria Hodson, a company spokeswoman.

How many accidents between cars, where one misjudges distance and speed? And we are supposed to be superior?

I know we are smarter than deer but, for someone to think they are stupid critters, is just fooling themselves.
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Old 12-16-2011 | 08:01 AM
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I dodge deer every single day. I don't know if whitetails are any smarter, but mule deer are the stupidest animal I know.

They wait on the side of the road watching you approach. At the last minute they run across the road. The locals are aware of this, and we all slow down when we see deer. The un-locals have no clue, and hit them. Same with elk.
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