RE: THE main thing that amazes me about a Whitetail Deer
 

Ive seen one deer cahsing one other deer through the woods in 2+ years hunting. Other than that.....every deer I've ever seen was walking.

Again....I hear them 90%+ of the time before I see them.....unless (as Scott eluded to) it's been raining. Even early season I hear them, first.

Dunno......I've never known anything different. Also, though....I hunt NO fields. I can rarely see over 40 yds or so.....so there might be deer that other people see in their setups that I would NEVER see because of the foliage where I hunt.

That's why it's so cool to see how other people hunt. It's probably VERY different than we likely think it to be.;)

RE: THE main thing that amazes me about a Whitetail Deer
 

If deer amaze you that much, wait till you get up close with an elk.

They blow my mind.

RE: THE main thing that amazes me about a Whitetail Deer
 

Jeff, ive thought about that VERY thing too many times.

how can an animal that weighs over 100lbs and walk on 4 legs "appear" out of nowhere on a dry forest floor, covered in DRY leaves and go unnoticed until its practically underneath of you??

how can you WALK right by the same animal while its bedded and not even notice it??

Monday me and 2 other people were walking a trail talking as we made our way from the fields to the woods to put on a drive...laughing, talking, and walking. the 1 guy stopped and backed up 10 yards...said "come here...i think theres one laying here" me and the girl backed up 10yds, looked, sure enough, a perfectly healthy deer laid there..we were ALL looking in there for deer and didnt notice it...we know deer often lay in there and were looking hard...we all said it was a log...till it got up and bolted. how that guy noticed it is beyond me...he said he thought it was a log as well, but thought he caught movement..thats why he backed up. it was hardly brushed in...it was just laying under a crab apple tree...let us walk and talk right by it...

mannnnnny times i have jumped them from places you would glance at and say "nope! cant be a deer in there!" dad and i jumped a nice buck one rifle season walking back to camp one morning in a blueberry field...stuff aint higher than your knees with a few shrubs here and there...he jumped up not 10yards infront of us out of nowhere...

"if its big enough to hide a rabbit, it will hide a deer" nothing is too small to hide a deer...youd think a brown blob would stand out like a sore thumb...when in reality, they got some pretty awesome camo....exspecially the fawns!

amazing animals for sure...

RE: THE main thing that amazes me about a Whitetail Deer
 

I would love to do it one time, Rybo. I have a buddy who guides in CO every year. He has offered to let me come out with him.....but the timing has never been right. I WILL go one day, though;).

He's been "mildly" successful on his own, too.;)

RE: THE main thing that amazes me about a Whitetail Deer
 

I'm amazed by their sense of smell and their survival instinct.

Sometimes a deer will just know something isn't right, and leave even though they didn't smell you, see you, or hear you. They have a sixth sense that keeps them alive. And it's equally amazing how this sixth sense doesn't apply to cars and highways! As smart, wily, and elusive as they are, they still stand in the middle of a road while cars are coming! [:@]

I'm also amazed at their ability to hide during the day time. I've spent alot of time in the woods and I've yet to see a "bedded deer". I see them after they bust out of their beds, tails waving as they run away. But I've never actually seen a bedded deer, even though I know where the bedding areas are!

RE: THE main thing that amazes me about a Whitetail Deer
 

Rob, Kurt and I walked up on the same 4 does bedded in the same area on our way out of the woods one day (10-15yds).....and on our way back in. It was really cool.

I've had 'em bed down around me on a few occasions. That's something special, too.

RE: THE main thing that amazes me about a Whitetail Deer
 

Depends on what you call a big deer I guess.Our mature bucks will generally weigh 175-200# before dressing, 130-140" bucks are fairly common on mature deer andthe area usually produces a couple of 170" plusracks each year. I realize these may not necessarily be considered big deer in other areas, butthese deer do not make anymore noise than other deer unless they are chasing during the rut.

As matter of fact, one of the neatest things I have experienced first hand while hunting was when a mature buck followed in the tracks of a 4 point by about 5 minutes on a crusty icy day that you could hear anything walking and crunchingon the ice pack a quarter of a mile away. The mature buck walked exactly in the same tracks as the 4 point and made no noise at all.

RE: THE main thing that amazes me about a Whitetail Deer
 

That darn sixth senseis killer qzq!! It cannot even be explained. I've seen them turn around on a dime to go the other way when I KNOW they didn't wind me.

As smart as they are most of the time, I bet everyone who has hunted over a few years has seen them do really dumb things to. You know like letting you take another shot when you missed the first ect.. I sorta like dumb deer on occasion

RE: THE main thing that amazes me about a Whitetail Deer
 

My last buck I heard the stick break he step on, my first thought was "That is not a squirrel":D

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