Deer Season 2020-21

[phylodog]

Well we just ran off three Coon hunters who apparently believe that once their dogs are off leash they have permission to trespass wherever the **** they want to. I wonder why we aren’t seeing any deer? We had pictures of these *****s on us over the weekend as well.

 

[76caprice]

It’s very hard to do that for sure. Everyone in my family does that at night with dogs and I’m the only one that deer hunts!

 

[yetti462]

congrats sugarcreek!

 

[DadSmith]

Well we just ran off three Coon hunters who apparently believe that once their dogs are off leash they have permission to trespass wherever the **** they want to. I wonder why we aren’t seeing any deer? We had pictures of these pricks on us over the weekend as well.

We deer hunt the same woods we coon hunt in here, have had no problem with deer running away. They can't break their patterns. We were logging out that woods and they got so use to Chainsaws running they just kind of stood about 50+ yards away and watched then went about their business.

 

[ndawoods25]

Thursday update. 0755, had a small 6 pointer moving pretty good with nose to ground. 1050. Doe walking through eating acorns. 10:53 spike buck nose to ground, trailing doe. Grunting as he goes by. It's still on. Update completed. hunt safe guy's

 

[Tryin']

Nothing yet. Haven't seen a deer on this property this season. Good sign, no deer.

 

[phylodog]

We deer hunt the same woods we coon hunt in here, have had no problem with deer running away. They can't break their patterns. We were logging out that woods and they got so use to Chainsaws running they just kind of stood about 50+ yards away and watched then went about their business.

That is the case for 95% of the deer. The 5% we’re after do not tolerate that type of disturbance in the woods, either by the dogs or by people. We step foot into the woods as little as possible year round and we’ve been patiently waiting for the activity to pick up before we start hunting because we’re only hunting about 10% of the ground we used to and it doesn’t take much pressure to drive the mature bucks away.

We have 50 acres of woods and 25 acres of ag fields and we’re bordered by 1000+ acres of woods that we have yet to see anyone step foot in. They aren’t going to hang around here when they can go 1/4 mile and have all of the solitude they want.

 

[indyartisan]

Disturbed a doe this morning when I let the dog out.
She was bedded down 20’ from the back door.

 

[hoosierdaddy1976]

Some inspiration for you guys. Not me (haven't had time to hunt in years) but killed near my neck of the woods yesterday.

 

[hereforthecootbash]

My old dogs grave is on the path to my stand about 20 yds inside the tree line. I stopped to say good morning to her around 6 and when I stood back up I heard a deer walking. Sounded close but I wanted to be in my stand soon so I walked when it walked and stopped when it did. Took me about 25-30 minutes to cover 60 yds. Took another 4 or 5 to climb the ladder one rung at a time will it walked around. Felt right next to me at one point and I think it was just off to my right a bit. Got seated and harnessed and he started grunting. Spent all the way until shooting light walking around grunting and rubbing trees. Disappeared before I could count points. Woods were quiet for the rest of the morning except a little fork walking passed around 8. Went home empty handed but happy to have been up in my tree. Good luck out there this weekend. Stay safe

 

[1nderbeard]

saw a nice young (2-3) buck in my neighborhood today as I was loading up the truck with my gear for shotgun season tomorrow. Decent 6 pointer. Will be a nice buck in a few years if he survives. Time was almost 11:30; the rut must be on!
Hope I have the same luck tomorrow.

 

[76caprice]

Good luck and Stay safe tomorrow for gun season! Gotta work all weekend so Monday is my day.

 

[JimH]

Well we just ran off three Coon hunters who apparently believe that once their dogs are off leash they have permission to trespass wherever the **** they want to. I wonder why we aren’t seeing any deer? We had pictures of these pricks on us over the weekend as well.

If they were real coon dogs they weren't affecting the deer.I can't count the times I've had deer bedded within 25-30 yards of treed dogs.That being said,I do go out of my way to hunt where the dogs are likely to "trespass".

 

[yetti462]

At night I've walked right by deer. They pay little mind. I check my cameras at night alot of times, just for that reason.

 

[phylodog]

So Coon dogs don’t scare deer, right. They don’t smell like dogs, deer can’t see them and their baying is comforting to them.

Sounds a lot like the bull**** the dog owners were spewing last night. I hope they don’t come back, it won’t be a pleasant experience.

 

[phylodog]

If someone can post a few pics of a booner all snuggled up with a dog maybe I can be convinced. Otherwise, the *******s need to control their dogs and keep them on property they have permission to be on.

 

[phylodog]

Why do they run deer with dogs in some states? How does that work? Do the deer follow the dogs out of the woods?

 

[churchmouse]

OK fellas. Getting reports about this thread.

 

[Ruger_Ronin]

Good luck to all today. Stay safe, shoot true.

 

[JimH]

Why do they run deer with dogs in some states? How does that work? Do the deer follow the dogs out of the woods?

Deer dogs are trained to run deer,coon dogs trained to run coons, rabbit dogs trained to run rabbits etc. Really pretty simple.