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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 5142277" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p><em>NOW</em> you're talking my language.</p><p>Also, it doesn't take "a lot of hunting pressure", as I'm convinced older deer simply prefer to "hang out" most wherever they are least "disturbed" <u>by whatever, </u>but in particular humans (with exception to some <em>VERY</em> regular daily human activities, such as farmer regularly feeding his livestock).</p><p></p><p>What's more, some of the things we might think "disturb" older deer, do not.</p><p>Routine highway traffic is often found more tolerable than a whiff of human scent.</p><p>Older deer will often bed for the day within 75 yds of a major road.</p><p></p><p>They will also often bed in very open hardwoods, defying what we often hear about them bedding mainly in heavy cover. When not feeding, not particularly hungry, not preoccupied with the rut, most older deer simply like to spend their "resting" time wherever they are least "bothered" by whatever, even if that's in the most open hardwoods in the middle of several hundred acres.</p><p></p><p>Last but not least, I believe hunters' "scouting" often puts more "pressure" on older deer than those same hunters' actually "hunting".</p><p></p><p>In that vein of thought, one of the best public land strategies can be simply to note where the most hunters go "scouting" the day before a "quota" hunt. Then forget about looking for deer "sign" yourself, and instead hunt for "pockets" that would typically be over 200 yds from anywhere a "scouter" walked thru in the preceding day. I'm only saying 200 yds because it just needs to be far enough that a bedded or standing deer would generally not be noticed by someone walking by. It is commonly only 75 yds or less.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 5142277, member: 1409"] [I]NOW[/I] you're talking my language. Also, it doesn't take "a lot of hunting pressure", as I'm convinced older deer simply prefer to "hang out" most wherever they are least "disturbed" [U]by whatever, [/U]but in particular humans (with exception to some [I]VERY[/I] regular daily human activities, such as farmer regularly feeding his livestock). What's more, some of the things we might think "disturb" older deer, do not. Routine highway traffic is often found more tolerable than a whiff of human scent. Older deer will often bed for the day within 75 yds of a major road. They will also often bed in very open hardwoods, defying what we often hear about them bedding mainly in heavy cover. When not feeding, not particularly hungry, not preoccupied with the rut, most older deer simply like to spend their "resting" time wherever they are least "bothered" by whatever, even if that's in the most open hardwoods in the middle of several hundred acres. Last but not least, I believe hunters' "scouting" often puts more "pressure" on older deer than those same hunters' actually "hunting". In that vein of thought, one of the best public land strategies can be simply to note where the most hunters go "scouting" the day before a "quota" hunt. Then forget about looking for deer "sign" yourself, and instead hunt for "pockets" that would typically be over 200 yds from anywhere a "scouter" walked thru in the preceding day. I'm only saying 200 yds because it just needs to be far enough that a bedded or standing deer would generally not be noticed by someone walking by. It is commonly only 75 yds or less. [/QUOTE]
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