Define "Pressure"
05-31-2008 | 03:59 PM
#31
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RE: Define "Pressure"
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Fast forward to the hunt. Now I'm sneaking around in camo and off of the trails. I spooked quite a few deer. I personally feel like the deer noticed the difference in behavior, and while they didn't understand it was because I was trying to kill them......They didn't care either. It was different, and that's all they needed to know.
I think if there's consistant activity in an area, the deer grow used to it and it doens't bother them. That's why they simply watch a farmer plow their field, but don't try walking across it, or driving across it w/ your truck. I agree that for the most part they don't care what you're doing, but they notice the difference. And in most cases, human activity in the woods IS the difference.
Fast forward to the hunt. Now I'm sneaking around in camo and off of the trails. I spooked quite a few deer. I personally feel like the deer noticed the difference in behavior, and while they didn't understand it was because I was trying to kill them......They didn't care either. It was different, and that's all they needed to know.
I think if there's consistant activity in an area, the deer grow used to it and it doens't bother them. That's why they simply watch a farmer plow their field, but don't try walking across it, or driving across it w/ your truck. I agree that for the most part they don't care what you're doing, but they notice the difference. And in most cases, human activity in the woods IS the difference.
[8D]I agree though, running a tractor you could get close enough to pet one. Stop 400 yards away on the road to put the glass on one and they are all gone in seconds.
05-31-2008 | 05:11 PM
#33
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RE: Define "Pressure"
To me "pressure" is anything that occurs frequent enough to changea deer's routine. If a deer is on its "normal" routine and pumps into a hunter/jogger/predator he will alter his route that day and then go right back it the norm. However, if that hunter/jogger/predator happens to be there again and even again, the deer has been "pressured" to competely alter its route.
Does it make sense?
Does it make sense?
