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<blockquote data-quote="Ski" data-source="post: 5797169" data-attributes="member: 20583"><p>That would have been my guess. I've said for a long time I believe hunters give themselves too much credit when it comes to pressure. Sure you can over sit one stand and cause deer to begin avoiding that spot, but it's a stretch to think our pressure dictates when they move and it's probably a lot harder to ruin a property than is normally thought. If hunting pressure was as big an influence on deer as is commonly thought, nobody would ever kill a deer on public ground. Public hunters often think hunting is so tough and they blame the pressure, but what they don't know is that they'd be seeing the same type activity if they were hunting private. Deer do what deer do without much regard for us and they don't recognize property lines.</p><p></p><p>The recent MSU study shows that an average buck has a home range of 12,000 acres, and 67% of them live their entire lives inside it while the other 33% have more than one home range. Of course some have smaller ranges but some have larger. It's why we see a buck for a few days on camera then he's gone and we think we screwed up by hunting him too hard, when in reality he just moved because that's what they do. The stats given in that study are astounding. An average buck covers miles per day and ends up 350-400yds away 24hrs later, which means he's NOT bedding in the same place every day but rather constantly making small daily circuits in a bigger annual circuit. Considering their findings it would be incredibly difficult or impossible for hunters to over pressure a buck enough that he changes his habits. What's really happening is that we see him during daylight as his circuit leaves him bedding on or near our property, but as soon as it shifts out we begin seeing him progressively later into the night until we see him no more at all. We think we over pressured him and made him nocturnal but it's not true. It's just that he has naturally shifted far enough away that when he comes through our property it is late night, and that would have happened regardless of our hunting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ski, post: 5797169, member: 20583"] That would have been my guess. I've said for a long time I believe hunters give themselves too much credit when it comes to pressure. Sure you can over sit one stand and cause deer to begin avoiding that spot, but it's a stretch to think our pressure dictates when they move and it's probably a lot harder to ruin a property than is normally thought. If hunting pressure was as big an influence on deer as is commonly thought, nobody would ever kill a deer on public ground. Public hunters often think hunting is so tough and they blame the pressure, but what they don't know is that they'd be seeing the same type activity if they were hunting private. Deer do what deer do without much regard for us and they don't recognize property lines. The recent MSU study shows that an average buck has a home range of 12,000 acres, and 67% of them live their entire lives inside it while the other 33% have more than one home range. Of course some have smaller ranges but some have larger. It's why we see a buck for a few days on camera then he's gone and we think we screwed up by hunting him too hard, when in reality he just moved because that's what they do. The stats given in that study are astounding. An average buck covers miles per day and ends up 350-400yds away 24hrs later, which means he's NOT bedding in the same place every day but rather constantly making small daily circuits in a bigger annual circuit. Considering their findings it would be incredibly difficult or impossible for hunters to over pressure a buck enough that he changes his habits. What's really happening is that we see him during daylight as his circuit leaves him bedding on or near our property, but as soon as it shifts out we begin seeing him progressively later into the night until we see him no more at all. We think we over pressured him and made him nocturnal but it's not true. It's just that he has naturally shifted far enough away that when he comes through our property it is late night, and that would have happened regardless of our hunting. [/QUOTE]
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