This just in.......Scientists say shooting at deer doesnt bother them.






Whuuuuuuut? C'mon now.......

You bang does enough you won't see bucks or does in your plot. They will avoid it totally in daylight.

This guy knows what he's talking about.

Most Alabama hunting clubs see far too much pressure, which suppresses deer activity.

Whats the difference in shooting does instead of bucks in a field? If you will shoot one in a field you would think shooting the other would be the same.

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We shot a buck on a field today with 38 females out there. How did they know we shot a buck versus a doe? They hardly ran when he shot.

Shooting does every weekend on a field is bad. Shooting 1-2 a year is fine, shooting none is ideal.

The difference is that a mature buck is what I set out to kill. Does are what I shoot to manage population. If a mature buck presents a shot in a field to me it’s worth the pressure applied to kill it and go into the field to load it up. It’s not worth me applying extra pressure to a field to kill a doe that can easily be killed in more ideal places that don’t affect the food plot. It’s just my outlook on it and I don’t force my opinion on anyone else but I also believe that most hunters today are either to lazy to hunt anything other than a food plot or don’t know how to hunt any other way than a shooting house on a plot so they justify their actions by saying it doesn’t bother the deer daylight sightings

We shot a doe at 4:15 and before dark had several more and a mature buck in the field. Who’d have thought that could ever happen?!😂

Blows my mind 🤦🏿🤦🏿

They are just goats, hunt the right wind and they dont mind it thundering from time to time.

Exactly. Just don’t be a dumbass and you can kill some deer

These guys get it.... ^^^^

Something else to add to this discussion……..Folks make the statement that it doesn’t bother anything because the deer they are watching didn’t do this or that……They never consider the old buck that could be 100 yards off the plot that they never knew was there……..This is one of the main reasons I don’t…….I know exactly where the deer like to bed and where the bucks stage up around my field, etc and it aint ½ mile away……I’m usually within 200 yards or less of them when I get in my stand. This is pretty much the norm too for areas with thick understories like we have in south Alabama………..the deer bed as close as possible to their food source. My biggest point here really is that there’s absolutely no reason in even taking the risk of effecting your chances at the bucks either way when that is most everyone’s top goal……Shooting = Maybe I spook them, maybe I don’t…….. Not Shooting = Definitely didn’t

What is the point of making that gamble when there are other easy options for taking a few does if that’s what you want to do? That’s how I look at it…….Not necessarily if it can or cant be done but the why……

Exactly the type of post I'd expect from someone in/from Michigan to post on an Alabama deer forum. 😁

Yea they get to kill 1 deer a year 🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿

I like low pressure and hunting the wind - do what u want to do

Not crazy about shooting does - but shot 4 in Wilcox county last year cause I got so many on my 80. Had 6 racks step out on me there yesterday so May wait little before I start whacking does but will whack there again this year. My Clarke county lease about right on buck to doe - glad I don’t shoot does there. I hav shot a doe before and had buck step in 2 minutes later - but if my ratios were right - I would not shoot does

Something that really lessens the impact of “shooting at” deer is to do it with a bow……This really increases the chances that the deer don’t even realize anything happened. This is a big factor in it…..The point of concern here should be the fact that a deer can adapt their behavior to a negative experience after one incident……So while you may have gotten away with educating them on this round…..you may not the next……and a deer most likely will change it’s behavior if it happens to them 2 and 3 times. The main goal in IMO when it comes to “hunting pressure” is to minimize the number of times the deer know they’ve been shot at…..however you want to go about doing that. That reduces “hunting pressure”.

Now see you’re just padding your resume for wyncreek now.

I think it's all about he areas you're hunting in. If you're in a high pressure area then it matters. For instance, Count how many bucks you see on a public land greenfield. I get that pressure is pressure but in high pressure areas it will shut down movement after while. I think deer associate blood with danger and your older smarter deer are on egg shells when approaching a field if they come in at all during daylight.

Now in a managed area with low pressure, it doesn't matter. I've hunted in areas where the does would watch you climb your tree and never leave the plot. Feed around ones that were shot, and have to run them off the field to get it out. Then I've hunted in areas where if a deer saw ,smelled or heard anything out of the ordinary they were out of there quick. Also seen where a doe or two was taken off a plot in high pressure areas and it shut down movement for the rest of the year.

It's all about where you are.