Spooking deer
06-07-2006, 08:34 AM
#1
Spike
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NB, CANADA
Posts: 42
Spooking deer
Thanks guy for all the good replies on those broadheads! I have another question. If you hunt from a stand or a blind and there are deer feeding or bedded in front of you and hunting time is ending, do you get out and spook the deer or just wait them out? If you spook them, will they return the next day? If you have to spook them, How do you do it? Again, I'm new at this so any help is much appreciated.
Cormier
Cormier
06-07-2006, 09:04 AM
#2
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
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RE: Spooking deer
That's a tough and good question. I'd try to wait it out some. But not ahuge amount of time. If I have to spook them, I'd proably not return the very next day. If it were a "shooter" that I had to spook, I'd probably not set up on him in the exact same spot.
06-07-2006, 10:30 AM
#3
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 842
RE: Spooking deer
If there are a lot of coyotes in your area, and where aren't there these days, a coyote call does a pretty good job of spooking deer away without giving your location away. Just blow it away from them and down towards the ground.
I've been pinned in a tree before by a big doe on a couple of occasions. I just wait till it's good and dark and she's at least 40 or 50 yards away. I sneak down and put my green light on. I've walked right past them and out on a couple of occasions. I'm told that deer are used to things passing by them in the dark and they'll just sit still until whatever it is is gone.
I've been pinned in a tree before by a big doe on a couple of occasions. I just wait till it's good and dark and she's at least 40 or 50 yards away. I sneak down and put my green light on. I've walked right past them and out on a couple of occasions. I'm told that deer are used to things passing by them in the dark and they'll just sit still until whatever it is is gone.
06-07-2006, 10:34 AM
#4
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Oct 1998
Location: Hughesville, PA USA
Posts: 18,322
RE: Spooking deer
ORIGINAL: Trembow
I've been pinned in a tree before by a big doe on a couple of occasions. I just wait till it's good and dark and she's at least 40 or 50 yards away. I sneak down and put my green light on. I've walked right past them and out on a couple of occasions. I'm told that deer are used to things passing by them in the dark and they'll just sit still until whatever it is is gone.
I've been pinned in a tree before by a big doe on a couple of occasions. I just wait till it's good and dark and she's at least 40 or 50 yards away. I sneak down and put my green light on. I've walked right past them and out on a couple of occasions. I'm told that deer are used to things passing by them in the dark and they'll just sit still until whatever it is is gone.
06-07-2006, 11:51 AM
#5
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Northeast Pennsylvania
Posts: 131
RE: Spooking deer
ORIGINAL: Trembow
If there are a lot of coyotes in your area, and where aren't there these days, a coyote call does a pretty good job of spooking deer away without giving your location away. Just blow it away from them and down towards the ground.
I've been pinned in a tree before by a big doe on a couple of occasions. I just wait till it's good and dark and she's at least 40 or 50 yards away. I sneak down and put my green light on. I've walked right past them and out on a couple of occasions. I'm told that deer are used to things passing by them in the dark and they'll just sit still until whatever it is is gone.
If there are a lot of coyotes in your area, and where aren't there these days, a coyote call does a pretty good job of spooking deer away without giving your location away. Just blow it away from them and down towards the ground.
I've been pinned in a tree before by a big doe on a couple of occasions. I just wait till it's good and dark and she's at least 40 or 50 yards away. I sneak down and put my green light on. I've walked right past them and out on a couple of occasions. I'm told that deer are used to things passing by them in the dark and they'll just sit still until whatever it is is gone.
DITTO
06-07-2006, 12:03 PM
#6
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Northern Idaho's Panhandle
Posts: 4,436
RE: Spooking deer
I always wait them out. Here in the mountains and forests, the type of feeding areas I hunt...are usually clearcuts and natural feed like buck brushin the mountains...deer really never sit in one spot like deer might on an agricultural area. Deer here move as they feed....especially mature bucks. I really notice it with the older bucks and does...They learn over time to feed in different spots and move along as they go. I believe its from all the predationthey recieve from wolves, mountain lion, bear and yotes... not to mention humans. They are less predictable this way.
I alway have an exit route planned by knowing how the deer move through the area. Mornings and evenings are much different due to thermals combining with winds to create some crazy winds....Playing the wind inthe moutnains is a completelydifferent playing field than flat ground.... I rely much more on being clean than I do wind direction.The wind swirls here pretty much throughout each day. A constant wind direction for more thanone hour is rare. Light a campfirehere andjust watch the smoke. Deer use the thermals more than the wind directions...in their movements...Again I am relying on being extra clean. I believe deer smell traces of predators daily...Science proves that scent molecules break down and dissipate. Deer know what harmful scent is heavy and concentrated or weak. They react accordingly.I try to keep my concentration of obtrusive scent moleculesto a minimum so that I come across to the deer in my area as someone that has passed by much earlier...or that I am much fruther away. The deer react accordinly...which usually means, I might see them look around for a second or two...then go back to their normal behaviors...I dont think we can eliminate all human scent..but Iput in a lot of effort tomimimize it enough that I haveobserved aconsistent tolerance to me by the deereven by very mature bucks...most deerrarely notice me these days even when they cross my path into my stands. Once they cross that path...well even if they stopand take a whiff....well the pathis positioned in such a fashion that I already have an arrow through thier boiler room!
Good luck, don't let em know your hunting them and you will be able to hunt your areas more often.
I alway have an exit route planned by knowing how the deer move through the area. Mornings and evenings are much different due to thermals combining with winds to create some crazy winds....Playing the wind inthe moutnains is a completelydifferent playing field than flat ground.... I rely much more on being clean than I do wind direction.The wind swirls here pretty much throughout each day. A constant wind direction for more thanone hour is rare. Light a campfirehere andjust watch the smoke. Deer use the thermals more than the wind directions...in their movements...Again I am relying on being extra clean. I believe deer smell traces of predators daily...Science proves that scent molecules break down and dissipate. Deer know what harmful scent is heavy and concentrated or weak. They react accordingly.I try to keep my concentration of obtrusive scent moleculesto a minimum so that I come across to the deer in my area as someone that has passed by much earlier...or that I am much fruther away. The deer react accordinly...which usually means, I might see them look around for a second or two...then go back to their normal behaviors...I dont think we can eliminate all human scent..but Iput in a lot of effort tomimimize it enough that I haveobserved aconsistent tolerance to me by the deereven by very mature bucks...most deerrarely notice me these days even when they cross my path into my stands. Once they cross that path...well even if they stopand take a whiff....well the pathis positioned in such a fashion that I already have an arrow through thier boiler room!
Good luck, don't let em know your hunting them and you will be able to hunt your areas more often.
06-07-2006, 02:28 PM
#7
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Greenville, IL
Posts: 287
RE: Spooking deer
Trembow, not trying to argue for the sake of being a smart@$$, but wouldn't spooking them with your own human presence or that of a coyote be virtually one in the same to a deer: predation?
06-07-2006, 03:18 PM
#8
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 39,060
RE: Spooking deer
I enjoy staying in my tree way after dark. I love to listen to the woods come alive at night. Then again if its cold I can't wait to get down and warm up with a cold beer. One way to move deer along is to lower your bow and wiggle it around in the leaves. This usually does the trick to get the deer to move.
06-07-2006, 06:32 PM
#10
Banned
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: IOWA/25' UP
Posts: 7,145
RE: Spooking deer
There is not much you can do. I spook them with out them seeing me up a tree though. You also should never hunt a stand two nights in a row IMO anyway. Make a strange noise; anything is better than educating a deer to look up at you.