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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 5847400" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p><strong>There is also a very simple spatial analysis method:</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Simple note where other hunters are hunting, over a few days, or weeks, or most of the season.</strong></p><p><strong>You hunt where they haven't been hunting.</strong></p><p><strong>The older deer are very quick to gravitate where they are least disturbed.</strong></p><p>This could even be a small patch of weeds in the middle of a large field,</p><p>but generally needs to be enough cover to hide a bedded deer.</p><p>However, it can also be some open hardwoods when no hunters are "disturbing" a particular area.</p><p></p><p>That said, there are certain activities that in one setting, might greatly disturb, but in another, don't disturb at all.</p><p></p><p>In some particular spots, certain types of low-impact "hunting" may not actually "disturb" those local deer (so long as nothing is killed around that spot).</p><p></p><p>It's always location specific.</p><p></p><p>As to how much a particular activity "disturbs" local deer, it has much to do with that activity's ongoing frequency. A farmer riding his tractor daily to check on cattle will not disturb the deer. Deer acclimated to cars driving down a road, will not be disturbed by those cars, even if they're bedding 75 yards from a busy highway.</p><p></p><p>But, it there are no humans coming regularly into an area (weeks, months in between), a hunter coming in one morning to hunt (or "scouting" can be more disturbing than actual hunting) will often displace local deer activity by several hundred yards, for several days. Just one intrusion of either scouting or hunting <em>CAN</em> do that, and often does.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 5847400, member: 1409"] [B]There is also a very simple spatial analysis method: Simple note where other hunters are hunting, over a few days, or weeks, or most of the season. You hunt where they haven't been hunting. The older deer are very quick to gravitate where they are least disturbed.[/B] This could even be a small patch of weeds in the middle of a large field, but generally needs to be enough cover to hide a bedded deer. However, it can also be some open hardwoods when no hunters are "disturbing" a particular area. That said, there are certain activities that in one setting, might greatly disturb, but in another, don't disturb at all. In some particular spots, certain types of low-impact "hunting" may not actually "disturb" those local deer (so long as nothing is killed around that spot). It's always location specific. As to how much a particular activity "disturbs" local deer, it has much to do with that activity's ongoing frequency. A farmer riding his tractor daily to check on cattle will not disturb the deer. Deer acclimated to cars driving down a road, will not be disturbed by those cars, even if they're bedding 75 yards from a busy highway. But, it there are no humans coming regularly into an area (weeks, months in between), a hunter coming in one morning to hunt (or "scouting" can be more disturbing than actual hunting) will often displace local deer activity by several hundred yards, for several days. Just one intrusion of either scouting or hunting [I]CAN[/I] do that, and often does. [/QUOTE]
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