Homedeer huntingAre Deer Getting Smarter?

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Are Deer Getting Smarter? — 2 Comments

  1. From Boggy Creek Ranger over at 24hourcampfire.

    Interesting, thanks all. Seems like most are seeing/experiencing the same thing I am. Maybe the deer ain’t “smarter” but they surely do act different than they did years back.

    Shaman, I had an old doe like your Madge. It was funny as the dickens. The stand I had on an oat patch was just a board nailed in the fork of a big red oak tree. After a couple of seasons that old slut would stick her head out of the bushes looking at that fork. If you were in it she would carry on just like you said yours does. She’d keep everything out of that patch. Frustrated the hell out of me and I decided to shoot the old thing. Well, kiss my foot, she knew it I guess because she wouldn’t come out if I was in the stand. Just stand there and blow and stomp, her head stuck out of the bushes and she looking at me.

    Got a bright idea. Took a limb about six feet below the stand fork in the same tree. Old slut came, looked at the empty fork and hopped right in. Smoked her with my flint lock and a more surprised looking deer you never did see. Just an instant of recognition but too late to do anything about it. I laughed like a loon.

  2. That is hoot and a half! I’ve switched trees before, but I never thought of moving on the same tree. I’d have laughed like a loon too.

    Funny, but have you noticed how hunting can turn some of the ghastliest scenarios and make them hilarious?

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