Done let my son shoot a doe on a field today at 3:45. I shot one at 4:15. Field is still filling up with deer now. 1/2 acre field that hasn’t been hunted but once all season. It’ll probably not get hunted again until rut. They do not care as long as you don’t HUNT often and make bad decisions. Killing them does not hurt a thing and never has anywhere I’ve ever hunted. Hunting on the wrong wind, hunting 2-3 times a week, spooking them while climbing up and leaving your stands etc is a much larger issue than an occasional gun shot. We are looking at more pile in as I type. I’m gonna sit right here, watch the show, drive back in after dark, load em up and all will be well. 😂😂

Y’all need to take a chill pill during thanksgiving and relax. Don’t overthink it. 😉

There are deer that see,hear and smell people year round and there are deer that never see,hear or smell people. The deer where I hunt come unglued at the presence of people. There is no one on the property 11 months out of the year and it’s some rough mtns.

Asking CNC not to overanalyze something. Now there’s a funny 🤣🤣🤣🤣

A dog becoming gun shy after someone "just shoots" a gun around it would have been a better example of the potential psychological impact of the "BOOOM" on a deer.......

Let me get this straight.. I think its safe to say The vast majority of hunters on here all stop shooting does on plots by January.. quite a few of these same folks dont seem to think doe killing on plots has a negative impact at all prior to January. Then why would they stop shooting does on plots? There's a reason for it & its not because it helps buck sightings

While we’re overthinking and overanalyzing…….something else to think about is that the dog forms a negative association with the visual sight of the gun because of the BOOM……I think there is the potential for the deer to form the same negative association with shooting houses and stands and we know this happens….Everywhere I go for the most part I see shooting houses and such that are stuck out in the open ……For the most part the norm is for hunters to go with a blatantly obvious shooting house on the side of a field or what have you……..This sets the stage and creates the visual object for the deer to form the negative association with…..Which is what ends of causing those deer to come out and watch the stand or check it out…..stomp and blow at it, etc…….

Where this really has the potential to be impactful is with the bucks and many folks may not even know its happening…….Bucks, especially older ones, have a tendency to hang back in the woods or in the thicket and watch the field for a while before they ever show themselves…..There no telling how many times each year a hunter is seen moving around and fittle farting in his shooting house by a buck that’s sitting back in the woods watching and knowing where to watch……What I would suggest is to take more a sniper mindset to setting up blinds and stands around fields and ghillie them in where the deer don’t have that blatant object to form the negative association with…..when a boom happens then they don’t have the visual of the stand to tie it to and start watching from then on.