Thanks for the PM Landon... it is bad news.

And I appreciate the updated vernacular. I'd hate to sound like a yankee when I'm bumming around Sussex and Southampton this year putting out trail cams. It is definately getting heated... hopefully everything will turn out for the best of the resource.

The older the deer the lesstolerance they have to human intrudence.I think thats what turns the big ones to bestrictly nocturnal and it doesn't take much.IMO.If we only knew how often it happens.

Pressure:Any human contact in a deers normal home range.IMO

pressure starts the minute you walk in a deer's woods!No matter what your in the woods for... weather it's a walk or hunting or checking your cam's when your in a deers house there one pin's and needles!My new hunting spot I got is heavily over populated with deer,when i put my cam in last week deer stood there and looked at me but I guarantee they were on pins and needles. These deer are use to humans but I thinkwhen I went down in the woods they were a little jittery.

In the woods i hunt i'm the only one there so i make sure i go out of my way to and from my stand so i don't miss up my hunting area. But come pre-rut and the rest of the season it like a chest game ,because i know the guy's are hunting the woods next to me not only do they walk around there woods but also the woods i hunt in because i 've caught them three time in the past three years they just don't seem to care if they screw it up for anyone else.

I think that pressure is when deer in a specific area are hunted very heavily.

To much human scent in an area of a woods in a given time. Thats pressure to me.

Exactly.

It is amazing how quickly deer that show up on my trailcam transition from daylight activity to becoming nocturnal in mid October.

What happens in mid October? All the gun hunters start getting out in large numbers preparing for the opener of gun season in early November.

Our country is rural/agriculture area but not so much that deer aren'taccustomed toa certain level of human activity and interaction.

But when the activity rapidly increases and happens in a wider area than normal, then it is PRESSURE anddaytime deer activitychanges dramaticallyalmost overnnight.

Early In is exactly right. They know the difference in the kind of intrusions they experience. Many times I'll be talking to people and they find out that I hunt, and they'll say, "You should see the deer around my house. They're so dumb I can walk right up to them and get within 30 yards from my driveway." I tell them that next time they see them to step off the driveway, just one step, and see what happens. All they'll see is white flags waving at them.

The deer definitely know how to determine threat levels in their environment around here.

Pressure is hunting a farm that immediately borders state gamelands that is also stocked with pheasants. There isn't a day that goes by where I don't have someone bumbling off the state land or through it on winds that hurt me, walking dogs, riding horses, scouting, shooting at game (pheasants rabbits) or just straight trespassing. PLus the fringes of the property I hunt also get bowhunted heavily and by guys that don't know what a wind current is or where it's going. Throw in an early youth rifle season and muzzleloader season and I'm out of that patch of woods seriously by the end of the first or 2nd week of the season.
I won't go back until the rut if at all.
It's one of those places where if I don't whack one in the very first week the bucks turn out the lights until November, and I'd just be relying on forced movement of bumped deer.

Bryan, that reminds me of something a lady said to me one time. She owns a small parcel ofground that she lets me hunt exclusively. She hates the deer because they eat up all of her Hosta's (sp), flowers that she spends a lot of time planting, that she LOVES!!She told me it should beeasy killing some of these deer, because they just graze on her lawn as she tends to her gardening.
I laughed, and told her those deer don't run because they seeyou do thatall the time, and you pose no threat to them. She also told me she has banged pots together to scare them, and they just stand there and look at her! I also told her whenI go back into their world to hunt, they become a TOTALLY different animal, because they know I'm a threat!