Pressure

[duckriver]

You always hear about how some deer change their patterns/ shift ranges from pressure. Hunting, scouting, etc. But for the ones of you that hunt working farms what do you think about tractors, trucks, 4 wheelers, etc and the traffic from them? I have been sitting out hay, bush hogging, checking fences, counting cattle and the deer don't really seem to be bothered by me. Do you think they just get used to it?

 

[Boll Weevil]

To a great degree, yes. As long as they don't perceive it as a threat and it's not a dramatic deviation from normal. Feeding, working cattle, mending fence, mowing...they get used to it and just move around it especially if you don't pay any attention to em as you go about your work. They just hop out of the way (if that).

That being said, I think there are absolutely times when spikes in normal farm operations activity can affect movement short term. One example is right now...harvest time. Combines running at all hours day or night and big grain trucks rolling in and out...they'll avoid those immediate places till it quiets down.

 

[stik]

That being said, I think there are absolutely times when spikes in normal farm operations activity can affect movement short term. One example is right now...harvest time. Combines running at all hours day or night and big grain trucks rolling in and out...they'll avoid those immediate places till it quiets down.

i have seen them feeding in the cut part of the field as the combine cuts just yards away. it don't bother them.

 

[280longshot]

I have been hunting a new lease this year that is a working farm, 65% pasture 35% woods, and I have been wondering the same.

So far the deer that I have seen in the fields while riding my four wheeler are tolerable to the noise and I have actually ridden past several deer within 75yrds, they just stood there looking at me...
Now the deer that I have encountered while actually hunting seem to act the same when they have smelled me.
The bigger bucks that I have seen don't hang around long but I could have killed them with a rifle.
I actually rode up on a coyote hunting, he looked up and keep on hunting.
Yes they sure do act different from what I can tell.

 

[travle]

I hunt near some houses that set in the woods. First hunt someone was shooting a gun for 20 minutes. Then someone started beating on stuff. I was like great, going to be a bad spot. But has the guy was beating on something the deer came walking by and never paid it any mind.