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<blockquote data-quote="sun" data-source="post: 5142232" data-attributes="member: 8678"><p>Forest roads, logging roads and trails can influence deer movements.</p><p>They move in circuitous routes that parallel a forest roadway, say within 100 yards, and cross in habitual locations.</p><p>It depends how much they're pressured, the terrain and their daily routine.</p><p>I'll try to identify their routes, looking for sign, and then get to know the boundary areas where they enter and leave state land.</p><p>The deer don't know the boundaries, but I think they know pressure and gun fire.</p><p>Sometimes the gun fire is coming from nearby private land and drives them out.</p><p>Not all deer are the smartest of animals, but there needs to be a number of them per square mile in the given range of your chosen habitat to increase the odds of finding one in the open that will provide a shot.</p><p>If you locate an active scrape, and learn the area where the deer is primarily spending time, then that improves the odds of staking it out.</p><p>Roads can help to provide some access, but if a deer has a 2 - 3 mile route in any direction, then you may need to find where the does are grouping.</p><p>Deer sign is everything., the more you find the better the odds are whether it's near a road or up and over the hill a ways.</p><p>Needless to say, I'm not hunting out of a tree stand, but remain free to move on the ground.</p><p>If an area feels empty then I'll move out on foot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sun, post: 5142232, member: 8678"] Forest roads, logging roads and trails can influence deer movements. They move in circuitous routes that parallel a forest roadway, say within 100 yards, and cross in habitual locations. It depends how much they're pressured, the terrain and their daily routine. I'll try to identify their routes, looking for sign, and then get to know the boundary areas where they enter and leave state land. The deer don't know the boundaries, but I think they know pressure and gun fire. Sometimes the gun fire is coming from nearby private land and drives them out. Not all deer are the smartest of animals, but there needs to be a number of them per square mile in the given range of your chosen habitat to increase the odds of finding one in the open that will provide a shot. If you locate an active scrape, and learn the area where the deer is primarily spending time, then that improves the odds of staking it out. Roads can help to provide some access, but if a deer has a 2 - 3 mile route in any direction, then you may need to find where the does are grouping. Deer sign is everything., the more you find the better the odds are whether it's near a road or up and over the hill a ways. Needless to say, I'm not hunting out of a tree stand, but remain free to move on the ground. If an area feels empty then I'll move out on foot. [/QUOTE]
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