a pretty good idea for not spooking deer
11-09-2006, 01:46 PM
#11
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
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RE: a pretty good idea for not spooking deer
I read a book that Germ turned me onto by a man named Mark Brooks. he said that deer get spooked all the time and run through the woods. He said we sound like a couple of deer running when we run through the woods......and that this wouldn't spook them. Heck....I'd already bumped about 10-15 trying to be stealth.....so I figured what the heck.
I swear to you I never heard a deer bump after I started running. Could be because I already bumped them all......but who knows?????....lol
Jeff
I swear to you I never heard a deer bump after I started running. Could be because I already bumped them all......but who knows?????....lol
Jeff
11-09-2006, 03:44 PM
#13
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Eureka, MO
Posts: 1,519
RE: a pretty good idea for not spooking deer
ORIGINAL: flstnhd
I just raked a clear path all the way to my tree stand.
I just raked a clear path all the way to my tree stand.
11-09-2006, 03:50 PM
#15
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Iowa (Heartland USA)
Posts: 3,249
RE: a pretty good idea for not spooking deer
Okay folks I'm going to give you all the secrets at once:
1. Walk heel to toe gently;
2. Do not start and stop;
3. Run if you want to; and
4. Most important to keep your scent down eat field corn and clover for
24 hours prior to hunting and you'll smell like an cow. (And after it
gets through your system, you can make some pretty realistic
cowpies too!)
1. Walk heel to toe gently;
2. Do not start and stop;
3. Run if you want to; and
4. Most important to keep your scent down eat field corn and clover for
24 hours prior to hunting and you'll smell like an cow. (And after it
gets through your system, you can make some pretty realistic
cowpies too!)
11-09-2006, 04:00 PM
#16
Spike
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: southern, Indiana
Posts: 88
RE: a pretty good idea for not spooking deer
I also have heard of this and sometime back in the early 90's I was watching a show about moose's. The guy was walking just like that and had a mounted cow head on his chest and was able to walk up to a giant bull moose. Sounds silly but i have done it and it seems to work.
11-09-2006, 05:13 PM
#17
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: turners falls mass USA
Posts: 319
RE: a pretty good idea for not spooking deer
running to where stand will definately jump deer or at least let them know somethings there.
go in the dark.it works the best.if you go in the light just still hunt your way to your stand you may just get lucky.
go in the dark.it works the best.if you go in the light just still hunt your way to your stand you may just get lucky.
11-09-2006, 06:02 PM
#19
Typical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Virginia
Posts: 753
RE: a pretty good idea for not spooking deer
Someone on here a month or so ago suggested making turkey calls as you walk to your stand, since they are a (relatively) large two-legged animal, which made sense to me. I don't know if that'd pass muster in the dark of morning, since turkeys aren't generally off their roost then, but I don't know if deer are smart enough to put that together.
