deer question
#12
RE: deer question
Deer have an amazing ability to adapt. If you shoot often they will get used to it and pretty much ignore it. when I built my log home the deer got so used to my nail guns (the gas operated ones that fire like a gun) that they didn't even bother to look when I was firing nails. I shot a doe one evening about five minutes after putting down my nail gun. This was after shooting off a roof and firing nails as fast as I could for hours. I shot a ten pointer one evening while he and I were listening to two guys talking while they were loading their quads on trailers. Deer get used to things. It's the unusual things that really put them on guard.
#13
RE: deer question
It shouldn't, we skeet/target shoot at one of the properties I hunt on. Shooting 300-400 rounds of 12. guage and it doesn't seem to bother them in the least. You probably wouldn't have much luck that evening though, lol.
#14
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RE: deer question
Back in the 70s my dad (a John Deere dealer) bought a new contraption made to run deer off your property...We raised mainly corn, soybeans, peanuts and wheat and I could ride around and count 150 deer in just a couple of hours...
This rig had a propane gas cylinder, a car battery, some wiring and a megaphone with a spark plug in one end...You could set it to go off at different intervals...The gas would be released and the plug sparked and BOOM!!!
We sold a few dozen within 2 weeks they started coming back the dang deer were feeding all around them...
I have shot many deer off a combine or a tractor, sighted in rifles in the middle of the day and killed deer that afternoon...
I would use a little common sense and stop shooting a month or so before the season comes in, but I always have guest check their zero before I let them hunt and it is done on one of our farms, often before we hunt that farm...
This rig had a propane gas cylinder, a car battery, some wiring and a megaphone with a spark plug in one end...You could set it to go off at different intervals...The gas would be released and the plug sparked and BOOM!!!
We sold a few dozen within 2 weeks they started coming back the dang deer were feeding all around them...
I have shot many deer off a combine or a tractor, sighted in rifles in the middle of the day and killed deer that afternoon...
I would use a little common sense and stop shooting a month or so before the season comes in, but I always have guest check their zero before I let them hunt and it is done on one of our farms, often before we hunt that farm...
#16
RE: deer question
ORIGINAL: wi_buckstomper
i read a study in a book and it sayed that on these collared deer when human pressure made them leave there core area they would 100% return within 48 hrs
i read a study in a book and it sayed that on these collared deer when human pressure made them leave there core area they would 100% return within 48 hrs
#18
RE: deer question
I shot about 25 times in september,with shotguns,22s,243.All together 25 times.Killed about 16 squirrels in october with a shotgun.In early november I killed about 10 more squirrels with shotguns and 22s.On november 23rd I was deer hunt n over a shoot n house over a green field and about 5 o'clock that evening,3 bucks walked out.A 6 point,8 point and a 13 point.I killed the 13 point,and dadgummit I could have shot the other 2.But the other 2 bucks still come in that food plot.My friend has seen them come in that food plot about 5'o clock.(My friend does't hunt).I was hunting another food plot in a different part of alabama.So I dont think it matters. The food plot I killed the 13 point in,is still just eat up with tracks.(BIG UNS)
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