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Tips to avoid spooking deer #3759356
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How do y’all avoid alerting deer when getting out of the woods? I’m more talking about bow hunting and not a good greenfield setup. Do y’all coyote call to run em off? Any tips on trying to run em off without blowing a spot would be appreciated. Thanks!


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Re: Tips to avoid spooking deer [Re: Gobble4me757] #3759366
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Easy. Do like me and hunt where there are no deer.

Re: Tips to avoid spooking deer [Re: Gobble4me757] #3759367
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Wait until it’s pitch black dark and slip out without a flashlight. Most of the time if they hear you coming down the tree they are gone. I’ve got some setups that I can slip down and they be 20 yards away and not see or hear me from the brush in between me and them

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Jd5036 has it. Just slip out real slow and easy after dark.

Re: Tips to avoid spooking deer [Re: Gobble4me757] #3759381
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I've called my nephew before to ride to where I was to run them off.

I've stuck my cell phone out the ground blind and waved it ,,,, light on

You can run a deer off and you can scare a deer off . You don't want to scare a deer off


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Re: Tips to avoid spooking deer [Re: Gobble4me757] #3759392
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If u hav him coming out in daylight fairly routinely - I would try my hardest not to spook

I hav not hunted hot days and never hunt wrong winds

One of my bow stands I can ease out of blind and go straight away from field on trail in woods and they can’t see me r no what I was - i set it up that way on purpose - so I could leave w out getting busted

It’s easier to do w rifle - but sometimes the Lay of the land will not allow u to do that


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Re: Tips to avoid spooking deer [Re: TDog93] #3759403
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Originally Posted by TDog93
If u hav him coming out in daylight fairly routinely - I would try my hardest not to spook

I hav not hunted hot days and never hunt wrong winds

One of my bow stands I can ease out of blind and go straight away from field on trail in woods and they can’t see me r no what I was - i set it up that way on purpose - so I could leave w out getting busted

It’s easier to do w rifle - but sometimes the Lay of the land will not allow u to do that



If I think they can/might see me I walk hunched down too

I think if they don't know what you are makes a difference .

I've plowed green fields and they just look at me . If I get close they back off and come back as I went away from them .

I've cut fire wood and killed deer eating off the trees that evening.

Had deer eat in a green spot with kids running and playing less than a 100 yards away on the other side of the wood line.

If they starts huffing and puffing, ,,,,, you scared him . Lol

If they just look at you funny and trot off you just run them off a little ways .

I may not be making any scenes but it come's down to ,,,,, will/does the deer see you as a danger

Re: Tips to avoid spooking deer [Re: Gobble4me757] #3759404
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^^^
I walk hunched down at my bow blind - it’s actually a big muddy - it shields me and when I finally walk to the right to hit the road - they should not b able to see me thru the woods - but I walk hunched over where it hard to tell what I am

I killed one that I think was 7 years old at this spot doing this last year. I don’t think I hardly ever had one snort at me when I left - a few times I heard them run off - but they did not know what I was

The no snorts is huge


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Re: Tips to avoid spooking deer [Re: Gobble4me757] #3759405
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Appreciate the reply’s…yeah Tdog it’s in a spot down in a hole that even with the wind good, I’m still blowing does out. I tried coyote yapping with my mouth then climbing down silently in the dark though wasn’t completely pitch black…she still blew out of there and hope the buck I’ve been after wasn’t around/isn’t spooked

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Re: Tips to avoid spooking deer [Re: Gobble4me757] #3759409
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Old does are the worst , they been around to long and seen/learned to much

They have pissed me off enough to pop her too lol

I like to lost it one evening when I had doe playing peek-ah-boo from behind a sweet gum .

She peek around one side and stump the peek around the other side and stump.

Re: Tips to avoid spooking deer [Re: Gobble4me757] #3759448
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If she blows...she goes. I hate an old nanny.

Re: Tips to avoid spooking deer [Re: Gobble4me757] #3759451
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Wont matter if you are close enough to bow hunt they are going to know when you came and went no matter when you get down. Just walk out normally when you get ready to leave. They are deer dont give them so much credit they get hit by cars daily

Re: Tips to avoid spooking deer [Re: Gobble4me757] #3759468
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If I’m bow hunting a plot and have a field full of deer I’ll usually text my dad and get him to drive into the field to bump them out so they don’t see where I’m set up. If I’m in the woods I’ll just let my pack and bow down and they usually see that and take off without looking up at me.

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The only correct tip is
STAY OUT OF THE WOODS
If you hunt your gonna spook deer, get busted and hang your head


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Re: Tips to avoid spooking deer [Re: Gobble4me757] #3759481
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Sounds like a tuff set up Gobble4me

It’s easier to set up stands for gun hunting to b spook free - w bow u usually right on top of - the dirt trail leading straight away from my small field and being able to keep me and the shooting house between deer helps - I can get out pretty silent on dirt trial in the woods

My big field in Clarke - i got the ground blind about 45 yards off the field (for gun hunting) - the way the timber is - b hard to push it any further away - if I could set it about 60-70 yards off the field - they would never know I was there - that’s ideal. Thats the best gun set up I hav. The other 2 gun stands I am about 10 yards off field - best I can do w timber being thick - on a windy day I can get out - I hunt those stands less to keep them fresh - if I never got detected - I could hunt more. I miss having a place where I could set up my stand and always leave undetected - the results hav been awesome when I can do this - how I got my mounters - pressure not as important - they never now u there - just hunt wind and your good


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Re: Tips to avoid spooking deer [Re: Gobble4me757] #3759499
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This has been a game changer for me now im in a wheelchair but itll work for yall id go ahead and do this now so everything can settle down in time but i take an old push mower and rachet strap it to my push handle bars behind me and drag that bad boy two or three passes and really widen up my trail in and out of that spot then come back with a little electric blower or yall can use a rake if you need to and try to get down to bout bare dirt. no sticks no leaves no noise

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I have blown a trail in with a leaf blower but on my own property.. Deer didn't seem to care but the path was not 200 yards or anything.

In general the best you can do is wait until dark and move out as quiet as possible. IF it is noisy then consider how many times you really need to hunt that stand location.


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The deer I hunt don't spook as easy after dark, they know our hunting regs. I'm fine just as long as I don't stare at them or move directly towards them.

My main concern is them going down my scent trail and patterning me. Best way to avoid that is to not hunt the same spot too often.

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Re: Tips to avoid spooking deer [Re: Gobble4me757] #3759539
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Slow down and be quiet .



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Re: Tips to avoid spooking deer [Re: Gobble4me757] #3759572
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I had a great spot years ago hunting a funnel next to a soybean field. But, I ran deer off every evening. My solution was if it was getting close to dark and the deer hadnt showed up yet I got out of there as quick as I could.

The other method is staying way past when you can see. I would stay over an hour in the dark to let them feed and leave. Deer are also less spoked in th middle of the night.

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