Scaring deer
12-14-2006, 12:32 PM
#2
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: North Lima Ohio & Clarion Pa
Posts: 6,453
RE: Scaring deer
Try and pick a route that will not take you through the area where you are spooking the deer. It's not always the easiest or shortest route but you have to avoid letting them know you're there.
In the morning they will be coming from feeding areas to bedding areas and vice versa in the evening. So play the wind and have alternate stands if the wind isn't right.
There is still always a chance of spooking a deer. They do not read the "rules" but if it's a consistant place where you are jumping them you have to change tactics.
In the morning they will be coming from feeding areas to bedding areas and vice versa in the evening. So play the wind and have alternate stands if the wind isn't right.
There is still always a chance of spooking a deer. They do not read the "rules" but if it's a consistant place where you are jumping them you have to change tactics.
12-14-2006, 12:39 PM
#4
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location:
Posts: 21,043
RE: Scaring deer
I found in my herd......that the deer were staging just inside the woods and bedding there......before heading into their core bedding area, afer daylight. The ONLY way I can get in there undetected.....and without bumping them all.....is to beat them home. I gotta go EARLY. I was on stand a GOOD 2 hrs before first shooting light on Saturday. 2.5 hrs before sunrise.
Trial and error taught me that. MOSTLY error.
Jeff
Trial and error taught me that. MOSTLY error.
Jeff
12-15-2006, 08:03 AM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location:
Posts: 1,032
RE: Scaring deer
Even if he does where he hunts it will still scare them. Steve you need to sneak in on the property behind you then come in from the back side. if you can you need to come in earlier to becuase then if you do scare them you have a better chance of seeing them again.
12-15-2006, 08:39 AM
#8
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: West Central Illinois
Posts: 863
RE: Scaring deer
ORIGINAL: rednecksteve
Whin i am going out to my stand in the morning no matter how hard i try not to i end up scaring a deer almost all the time
any idea on what to do
Whin i am going out to my stand in the morning no matter how hard i try not to i end up scaring a deer almost all the time
any idea on what to do
one last thing, take your time getting to your stand.
