Seeing Deer

[FrankenMauser]

I also listen for sounds of deer walking. 9 times out of 10 I hear a deer moving toward me before I see it. Watch that direction and wait for it to pop out of cover.

It doesn't work when they're sleeping.....

Last year, I spooked a deer at less than 10 feet. I was watching for movement, and listening for walking noises. (The conditions were perfect for me to be absolutely silent while stalking.)

Popping around some scrub oak was as frightening for me, as it was for the poor doe. It must have taken 10 minutes for my heart rate to come down, and for her to stop blazing across the mountain side.

She had been sleeping next to an old, over-grown logging road, by the scrub oak.
It's too bad, again, that I was hunting Elk.

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I do agree. A mule deer flicking its ear is like a giant 'shoot me' flag.

[Para Bellum]

"Wetback" in Texas is an identifier, not a pejorative....

Thanks for the info. As an Austrian, I couldn't possible understand, what you Texans were talking about. Now I got the point...

[Jack O'Conner]

I know what you mean!

Jack

[rantingredneck]

It doesn't work when they're sleeping.....

Last year, I spooked a deer at less than 10 feet. I was watching for movement, and listening for walking noises. (The conditions were perfect for me to be absolutely silent while stalking.)

Popping around some scrub oak was as frightening for me, as it was for the poor doe. It must have taken 10 minutes for my heart rate to come down, and for her to stop blazing across the mountain side.

She was just waiting for you to break cover .