Intrusion during prime time
10-01-2010, 08:30 AM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: central and east texas
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i have too scared off deer just to have them return within minutes, sometimes an hour.
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10-01-2010, 08:31 AM
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: central and east texas
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I guess I would hold tight either way. The woods seem to have a lot going on anyways. Deer have become accustomed to cars, people, dogs, 4 wheelers, etc... If I had some time to let everything quiet down I would. You hung the stand in a good area, so I would just wait it out for a while.
Now if they started up a chainsaw and started cutting firewood, that may be a different story.
Now if they started up a chainsaw and started cutting firewood, that may be a different story.
10-01-2010, 08:31 AM
#13
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Eastern PA
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I have to agree with most of the posts. In an area where deer are acustomed to having humans around you should be OK. If the deer in the area weren't actually bumped, they probably just stood still, watched and waited until the 'coast was clear' and presumed their normal activity.
Oh - halfbaked - I too do not believe that the deer will not come back for 3 days. I had the same thing happen as what happened to Stabandslab. Bump a deer in the late morning and sit and wait and he came back via a different route. Did it ever occur to you that the deer may have walked BEHIND the cam or out of range of the cam?
Oh - halfbaked - I too do not believe that the deer will not come back for 3 days. I had the same thing happen as what happened to Stabandslab. Bump a deer in the late morning and sit and wait and he came back via a different route. Did it ever occur to you that the deer may have walked BEHIND the cam or out of range of the cam?
Last edited by bronko22000; 10-01-2010 at 08:35 AM.
10-01-2010, 09:40 AM
#14
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: RI
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I would sit tight. Last Saturday I got to the property I hunt in CT for an afternoon hunt, about 1.5 hour drive. When I got there, the land owner and his wife were working by the pond I usually hunt near. I walked up to them, joked they were working in my shooting lane, then offered them a hand. They wouldn't have it and the land owner told me I could use a stand his brother had set-up for an out of town friend who I believe is done hunting. I took him up on it and did see 7 deer, nothing close enough for a shot. 4 of those 7 I saw about 80 yards away, coming from the area where they were working, backhoe and all. If I would have set up the 30 yards from the pond where I normally do, I probably would have had a shot, even with all of the commotion that was going on just a short time earlier.
10-01-2010, 09:55 AM
#15
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Wisconsin
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not a farse, as i said, in one area, the deer will come out after people pass by, and in one area, the cam shows, the deer dont come back in for 3 days after we leave..how would you know if its a farse or not...you have never been here!!!
i have too scared off deer just to have them return within minutes, sometimes an hour.
i have too scared off deer just to have them return within minutes, sometimes an hour.
10-01-2010, 10:17 AM
#16
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Northern NY
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I have to agree with most of the posts. In an area where deer are acustomed to having humans around you should be OK. If the deer in the area weren't actually bumped, they probably just stood still, watched and waited until the 'coast was clear' and presumed their normal activity.
Oh - halfbaked - I too do not believe that the deer will not come back for 3 days. I had the same thing happen as what happened to Stabandslab. Bump a deer in the late morning and sit and wait and he came back via a different route. Did it ever occur to you that the deer may have walked BEHIND the cam or out of range of the cam?
Oh - halfbaked - I too do not believe that the deer will not come back for 3 days. I had the same thing happen as what happened to Stabandslab. Bump a deer in the late morning and sit and wait and he came back via a different route. Did it ever occur to you that the deer may have walked BEHIND the cam or out of range of the cam?
10-01-2010, 11:01 AM
#18
Nontypical Buck
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10-01-2010, 11:12 AM
#19
Nontypical Buck
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10-01-2010, 11:29 AM
#20
Fork Horn
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not a farse, as i said, in one area, the deer will come out after people pass by, and in one area, the cam shows, the deer dont come back in for 3 days after we leave..how would you know if its a farse or not...you have never been here!!!
i have too scared off deer just to have them return within minutes, sometimes an hour.
i have too scared off deer just to have them return within minutes, sometimes an hour.
How do you know it just didn't avoid the camera? I've watched deer walk behind the tree with the camera mounted on it, so if I hadn't been there, I'd have never known the buck was even in the area. Lesson: cameras are good, but never tell the entire story.
edit: Others beat me to the punch (lesson to me...read entire thread before responding! LOL)
Great advice, everyone. Pretty much what I figured (ie. just sit tight) but it's still good getting feedback from other hunters, for reassurance if nothing else.
Last edited by UPHunter08; 10-01-2010 at 11:32 AM.