If a deer blows at you?
 

While hunting last night my hunting partner had what he thinks to be a nice buck blow at him. It was after dark and he was waiting for a couple of other deer to clear the area so he could leave himself. As he was waiting, he saw the large bodied deer approaching, it came to within 20 - 25 yards from stopped and blew at him and pawed the ground. The deer then retreated a few yards and stopped, it then resumed its travel but in a different direction. He thought he waited long enough for the deer to clear but as he climbed out of his ladder stand he was blew at again by the same deer he believes. He is hopeful that same deer will come back, but I say no way after all that. What do you guys think?

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I' m suspecting that the deer did not know what your friend was and needed some type of confirmation. As long as the deer didn' t identify your friend, I would continue to hunt the deer.

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Your friend alarmed the deer and the deer responded hoping that your friend would idenitify himself.

Should be ok...

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My understanding if the snorting/pawing/stomping is that they can' t identify what they are looking at and they do that to try to spook what they see. I could be wrong .. if so I' m sure someone will correct me. :)

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I would hunt it agian but not at the same spot. Especially when he was getting out of the stand they blew agian.

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Not only will he come back - he has already come back.

probably about 3 hours after you friend left - to check it out what spooked it. Got it a good nose full of people stink....

and NOW will never come back:D

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The buck was obviously spooked and maybe your friend didn' t directly spook the deer, but his scent is probably still lingering a bit. I' d give that area a break for a few days and things should be OK. That doesn' t mean your friend cannot hunt 30 yards away from that spot, but I would stay away from that same exact spot for a few days.

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YUP, good strategy. Give it a few days and set up 40 or 50 yards away further downwind.

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They will come back, had a doe bust me one morning getting into my stand, snorted a few times and took off, half hour later she came back just to snort at me again. A week later I think I shot her, 30 yards from where that tree was. As mentioned above, good idea to change stand location and maybe take a different route to the tree.

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The deer was trying to get your friend to commit and show himself. Just move a bit down from where the ladder is now. Sounds like a good chance to bust one.

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because u stink!!!!!!!!1 wash your behind hahahahahaha. i hate when thats happerns ....





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Funny this threads started today. I was getting down out of my treestand about a half hour ago. After I detached it from the tree I proceeded to pack it up and gather my belongings. No sooner do I sling my climber onto my back I hear a snort. Sure enough I turn around and there is a doe giving me the evil eye at about 8 yards ! [:o] Thank god she was upwind. She stood there for about 10 sec and then gave me the white flag. She retreated about 20 yards and then stopped again to look back. I stood there motionless. She kept snorting over and over probably 50 times while stomping her foot. Finally after what seemed like 10 min she turned, put her head down and wandered away at a casual pace. Hopefully the next time I see here she' ll be in my sights. :D

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Over many years of deer hunting I can honestly say that I' ve never wittnessed a buck blowing at me. All of the deer that I' ve actually seen blowing at me were does. If a buck senses that something just aint right he' s gone!

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I completely agree with BOWFANATIC. Never had a buck blow at me. Does on the other hand, oh yeah. And he said it was a good buck " he believes" . This reminds me of a buddy of mine. Every deer noise, print, dropping, sighting is a pretty good buck. Man, does make some big noise and leave some big tracks sometimes.

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If it was a doe or buck , understand why they blow.... Deer see or possibly smell something that is cause for alarm, most often they are not sure of what they have seen, heard or smelled. The actual " blow" a high pitched weeze sound is a deer clearing its nasal passages, they are constantly smelling and gathering " info" through smell, when alarmed they will blow hard to excuse all smells from the nasal passages to gather new smells to indentify their reason for alarm. once that smell is gone they will likely return to check what was there that alarmed them. Keeping the area scent free will NOT give them a reason to change their pattern.

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It is funny how every little sign, whether it be a rub, scrape, track, manure, hair on the fence, snort, or whatever is a monster buck. :D

On the other hand I have witnessed bucks snort on more than one occasion. Three days ago I witnessed a buck snorting only 12 yards from my stand. I could have arrowed him a number of times before and after his little tantrum but he was only a small six.

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I don' t like it when it happens, but it wouldn' t keep me from hunting that deer, or area again. Give it 3 days or better to settle down if possible. Hunt a different tree in the same general area, make sure the wind is right, and be as scent free and quiet as possible. If he was only alerted once, he might come back(probably will unless he' s a very wise 4 1/2+ year old buck). If alerted once, and he smells a human there again, he might get a little spooky of that area.
He' s not gone for certain, but being careful is very important now.

peashooter

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There was an article I remember reading years ago, I think in Deer & Deer Hunting mag, that when a deer stomps it' s foot, it is releasing a scent from it' s hoof that acts as an alarm/warning for other deer.

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yea it should be alright to go back and hunt the same spot

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MikeE51848
There is some truth to that statement, Deer have an interdigital gland between their hooves, it does release scent, that along with urine they step in is how deer easily follow each other on the same trails reguardless of wind direction. I have seen deer act abnormal when coming to a spot where a deer has stomped earlier in the morning or day, They seem to act with much more caution when approaching those areas. I would imagine that more scent is released when they do this but as of yet have not seen any data to back that up. It may be out there, I just have not seen it. TR may have some info on this also, may be a good question to post in his forum.