Look for pieces of a deer
- Thread starter DomG
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Very cool! Would love to hunt blacktail!
Saw the doe and fawns pretty quick. Not 100 percent sure I see the other 2.
DomG
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BSK
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Back when I was learning to deer hunt, I was always reading these articles saying to learn to look for pieces of deer. I never found that to be as useful as learning how to train your eyes for movement. Now I sort of "look at nothing" while scanning for movement. In essence, I don't focus my eyes on any one thing and just let me eyes settle into "movement detectors."Not by my camera or by my wit, only because I seen them moving before I snapped the pic. It makes me wonder how many deer I have overlooked in seasons- past....
DomG
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The Ol Professor
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We lived in Warrenton, OR for a few years in the 80s and I hunted Blacktails. Tough to spot no doubt. The only one I ever shot was a doe across a clear cut.
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BSK
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Growing up on the outer edge of the nearly endless housing developments of the Bay Area in CA, we always had a summer garden. And in CA, the summers are extremely dry. All of food sources for deer "up in the hills" dry up and deer go looking for alternative foods, which meant our garden. I used to spend evenings shooting deer with a BB gun to get them out of the garden. Those blacktails would make my mom so angry, she would hold the flashlight while I shot the deer in the butt!
