They Khow

[thphm]

That hunting season is over for them here, eating and resting  50 feet from the road.

[Suilleabhain]

My family used to joke about this and still do. Go out small game hunting and have bucks run right into us. Go and get a bow or a gun and you see rabbits, squirrels and grouse. Where I hunt in 9H we have squirrels by the bushel. Day before opener I go out with a .22 and don't see any. My father went to East Nassau squirrel hunting and ran into grouse after grouse. He & I went back their the next weekend and didn't flush a bird. They put the latest alerts on the forest wire service, shotguns headed to Dusenberry Hill Road. Head for cover. News at 11.

[Doc]

Every year this kind of thing happens. the season ends and with a few days they are wandering around in my yard in broad daylight munching on shrubs ..... lol. Somebody has leaked a copy of the game laws to them.

[Pav2704]

Have to wonder if a week break between bow and gun seasons would be beneficial to us hunters???

[Suilleabhain]

My own opinion which is worth zip. That hits me in the ethics spot. Change the season to outsmart them. Fair chase, let them have their time. I have a "safety zone" around my brother's house. Won't shoot a deer in the zone, passed on a nice doe this year becasue she was browsing there. Just my own way of thinking.

[growalot]

Yesterday I found 10 fresh beds 10-15 ft from a stand I couldn't use this season due to a bad ladder...not far from the blind...I'd watch them go in and bed down then get up to feed 50 yrds away... I've taken several deer from that stand..they know! ...lol

[ants]

Yesterday I went to my buddies barn, to put a float charger on one of the ATV's. There were 2 doe in his yard that let me walk within 20 yards of them before the took off and then they stopped at about 50yds. and just stood there. They know alright.

[Suilleabhain]

One year I shot my deer and was walking to push for the other guys. I's walking with a shotgun and walked right up on a doe browsing. She was only 50' away from me and never fretted while I walked up, stopped to watch her and then walked on. Another year I did the same, walked up on a spike bedded with a couple of does. They looked at me, he mounted one doe and only moved when I tried to push the spike to my brother. Any other time I would have seen tails 100 yearsd in front of me. They do seem to have a sixth sense, can't be true but it seems so.

[thphm]

Just got back from from replacing the cards in the trail cams,2 young ones munching on the clover  and mom was bedded near by, rode up to then about 10 yards then the moved plus 4 more bedded on the other side of a stone wall they didn't even bother to get up, good size one was a shed on one side buck.