Thread: Spooking Deer

The hound and I spook a lot of deer, 5 close encounters this last trip. If they bark or smell us I leave them be and don’t bother pursuing them so they don’t run over into the next watershed, they settle down quicker not have pressure them.

If your lucky some deer see movement and run 10m-20m and may stop a few seconds then trot off 100m-300m or so and go back to feeding if they aren’t bedded down, so might get another stalk in on the same animal.
Some deer hear unnatural sounds for the conditions and bolt off then stop to check whats going on for as long as minutes then feeding again or walk off not to far away.

Most of the time we don’t need to put the pressure on them, we have plenty of time 3-6 day trips and just move onto the next lots of animals. Some days we may stalk into 12 different animals.
I also use the stag call and fawn call in certain situations to stop animals, if your been around a deer farm or plenty of time in the hills listening to stag communicating to each other ( non roar call ) you will know the call along with antlers clashing.