Anyone ever use a scarecrow

[Al Bundy]

My hunting area is small and I have several unhappy neighbors. So... we are limited on how to hunt it.  The best place to be is within 100 ft of an angry neighbors place. We have tried to talk to him but that just wont work. not happening, never, period, end of story.  The deer travel along a hedge that is right by his place. So I was thinking of ideas how to move deer away from his house. One idea I had was to make a scarecrow of some sort on my land near where the deer travel. The theory being that the deer will see this, smell this and move in a different direction, toward where the guns are.

 

Anyone try something like this?

[ApexerER]

I posted on Archery Talk asking if anyone put a scarecrow in their stand while they were not there. I have a stand that is pretty out in the open overlooking a powerline and I thought if there was a scarecrow in it all the time the they would ignore me. The consensus was that deer are more afraid of movement and smell then they are of a human shaped object. I thought it was a good idea but never did try it.....It sure can't hurt.....

[landtracdeerhunter]

I believe growalot uses something like this, but on other hunters. Might be worth a try on the deer. I know reflective pie pans work pretty well.

[Jeremy K]

Plastic shopping bags tied to tree limbs

[growalot]

Deer get use to both the shape and the smell...

I have put old smelly boots in the garden to keep deer at bay..fenced mind you.... and have prints walking past them...a Battery operated radio would work for a while on a hard rock station( change in sounds) with one of those caution yellow blinking road lights..but they will get use to the light eventually...Clothe on trees  dipped in nasty cheap mens body oils...like DKY...lol...you just need to time it right and a plot close to where you want them...or fruit trees...watch the wind with smells..it could back fire on you with wind shifts

 

PS ....put one of these next to the neighbors border...I will tick him off enough checking it out...he'll scare the deer closer to you...

 

 

Edited December 17, 2013 by growalot

[DROpTINE]

hang Ivory Soap from branches in that area...deer hate that soap for some reason...

 

although it may be easier to lure the deer to you than to scare them away from your neighbors...no telling which way they will run unless your property has something they want... maybe some food plots or creating some thick areas the deer will feel safe. good luck

[Culvercreek hunt club]

I have never used a scarecrow but I have parked a 4 wheeler in the middle of the field to force deer out of it and make their way around. Where I was waiting.

[Al Bundy]

I do have a small tractor I could drive there. I may think the noise of that though would scare the deer when I park it there. Its pretty loud. Soap may work. Shirts/pants something hanging from a branch sounds easier than a full blown scarecrow. Shopping bags may work, long as they are not white I would think. WHite bags flapping around could be bad.  Lots of good ideas here, simple and hopefully effective.

[Culvercreek hunt club]

Another one that may work is stopping by a local hair cutting place and getting their garbage hair clippings. I know one guy that did it to another over a disputed stand sight.

[crappyice]

Let ME hunt right in their path - deer never come anywhere close to me!!!

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[genesee_mohican]

I've use a scarecrow out back in my garden to keep the deer out. It has to be used with irish spring soap or some other strong smelling bar soap. Seems to work well and worth a try. I stuffed cloths with straw, staked it to the ground.

[Doc]

I used a scarecrow to mess with trespassers. ....... lol. Well, it wasn't exactly a scarecrow as such. It was more like an old worn-out red hunting jacket that was headed for the dump. I figured that if it were hung on a branch far enough inside my property line that they could only make out the red color, that would turn them back.

[EagleCrag]

hang Ivory Soap from branches in that area...deer hate that soap for some reason...

 

 

 

And here I thought it was my scent the deer didn't like!