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<blockquote data-quote="FLTENNHUNTER1" data-source="post: 4983556" data-attributes="member: 5033"><p>IMO 53 acres isn't enough to hold deer. Average home range is 600 to 700 acres. Core areas can be much smaller; but it is real easy to bump deer on smaller properties. Once you take away their feeling of security, they might not return. My property is 80 acres, and I have designated a central area as a sanctuary to try to give them the sense of security. That said, with shifting winds, it only takes deer on my property 3-4 days to pattern me and disappear. My sightings drop dramatically the longer I stay. And this is rotating stands playing the wind, and only sitting in the same stand 2 times in a row max. Many times I will hunt a stand in the morning and change to a different stand in the evening.</p><p></p><p>I see bachelor groups of outstanding bucks on camera in early bow season, only to have them disappear and never be seen again later in the year.</p><p></p><p>The game changer is the rut. At any given time a deer can enter and or exit my property at any time of the day. Granted, most of the activity is in the first two hours and the last two hours of the day; but I have also killed good bucks between 10 and 2.</p><p></p><p>Acorn mast can affect deer sightings also. I am a firm believer the less acorns the better, when they are everywhere I see less movement.</p><p></p><p>What I have learned over the 5 or 6 years I have owned the property and ran cameras is all deer are nocturnal; some more than others. Activity on my cameras are all hours of the night. There is no rhyme or reason, they just like to move around I guess.</p><p></p><p>One thing I have noticed, I have heard upon many occasions during archery season single gunshots right at or close to dark. I think as many or more deer are poached every year as are taken legally. This truly is a shame; I have no respect for poachers at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FLTENNHUNTER1, post: 4983556, member: 5033"] IMO 53 acres isn't enough to hold deer. Average home range is 600 to 700 acres. Core areas can be much smaller; but it is real easy to bump deer on smaller properties. Once you take away their feeling of security, they might not return. My property is 80 acres, and I have designated a central area as a sanctuary to try to give them the sense of security. That said, with shifting winds, it only takes deer on my property 3-4 days to pattern me and disappear. My sightings drop dramatically the longer I stay. And this is rotating stands playing the wind, and only sitting in the same stand 2 times in a row max. Many times I will hunt a stand in the morning and change to a different stand in the evening. I see bachelor groups of outstanding bucks on camera in early bow season, only to have them disappear and never be seen again later in the year. The game changer is the rut. At any given time a deer can enter and or exit my property at any time of the day. Granted, most of the activity is in the first two hours and the last two hours of the day; but I have also killed good bucks between 10 and 2. Acorn mast can affect deer sightings also. I am a firm believer the less acorns the better, when they are everywhere I see less movement. What I have learned over the 5 or 6 years I have owned the property and ran cameras is all deer are nocturnal; some more than others. Activity on my cameras are all hours of the night. There is no rhyme or reason, they just like to move around I guess. One thing I have noticed, I have heard upon many occasions during archery season single gunshots right at or close to dark. I think as many or more deer are poached every year as are taken legally. This truly is a shame; I have no respect for poachers at all. [/QUOTE]
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