This made my day

[Chiflyguy]

I just throw cameras in the woods with no strategy.
I'm not a strategic deer hunter.
I just sit in a tree and hope for the best.

 

[Ski]

Good buck! But for not being strategic you sure picked a good spot. The opposite side of that bank is a field??? Notice how if he raises his head he just barely could scan that field for does, but nothing in that field can see him. Makes for one heck of a rut cruise corridor.

 

[Chiflyguy]

Good buck! But for not being strategic you sure picked a good spot. The opposite side of that bank is a field??? Notice how if he raises his head he just barely could scan that field for does, but nothing in that field can see him. Makes for one heck of a rut cruise corridor.

It's a trail the owner put in.
Goes to the top of the mountain.
He came down like they do.
Maybe I have a clue what I'm doin after all.
Oh, this made all the chigger bites I got Monday worth hanging my camera.

 

[C1295]

What's he looking at a corn Pile? Just kidding man good looking Buck hope you bag him!

 

[BSK]

It's a trail the owner put in.
Goes to the top of the mountain.
He came down like they do.
Maybe I have a clue what I'm doin after all.
Oh, this made all the chigger bites I got Monday worth hanging my camera.

Make a trail, and deer will follow it. Not really sure why they do this.

 

[rifle02]

Make a trail, and deer will follow it. Not really sure why they do this.

Path of least resistance is what I suspect.

 

[Chiflyguy]

What's he looking at a corn Pile? Just kidding man good looking Buck hope you bag him!

A F150 transmission pile

 

[C1295]

A F150 transmission pile

Im glad I have a belt buckle that one was a close low one

 

[BSK]

Path of least resistance is what I suspect.

Except I have intentional made trails that go all over the place, and much farther than walking in a straight line, and the deer still followed them.

 

[Ski]

Except I have intentional made trails that go all over the place, and much farther than walking in a straight line, and the deer still followed them.

Edge is my guess. A path cuts a separation line through an area that didn't already have it. If the habitat is thick enough then every trail cut through it also reveals easy access browse that would've been difficult or impossible to get beforehand. And since they're already hardwired to make & follow trails, perhaps they just can't help themselves.

 

[BSK]

Edge is my guess. A path cuts a separation line through an area that didn't already have it. If the habitat is thick enough then every trail cut through it also reveals easy access browse that would've been difficult or impossible to get beforehand. And since they're already hardwired to make & follow trails, perhaps they just can't help themselves.

I think this is the answer: they are hardwired to do so. Where I grew up in southern KY, I when we had snow, I would cross-country ski across open pastures. No matter where I went and zig-zagged, the next day, deer tracks following everywhere I went. They just can't help themselves.

 

[backyardtndeer]

Nice looking buck. Good luck with him.

 

[Chiflyguy]

Edge is my guess. A path cuts a separation line through an area that didn't already have it. If the habitat is thick enough then every trail cut through it also reveals easy access browse that would've been difficult or impossible to get beforehand. And since they're already hardwired to make & follow trails, perhaps they just can't help themselves.

There is a hayfield where he was looking.
He has to climb down about 75 feet straight down to get there.
There is a trail that goes down to it back where he came from.