Thread: How deer react to gunshots?

Suppressors are for shooters that are rotten shots and don't want to hurt the animals hearing....yet deaf deer would be easier to sneak up onto....and OP, 'when there is lead in the air there is hope'

I generally shoot with a suppressed rifle these days, recently I shot 4 deer inside the bush edge on a creek, I doubt I’d have got them all with an unsuppressed rifle. Deer are used to hearing branches breaking, rock slides, etc I don’t think a shot bothers them too much

@flyingpillock, there’s a saying; you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take

Thanks for all the replies team, definitely sounds like it’s not game over for an area if shots fired.
As for running shots, I appreciate the sentiment but for me it’s just not worth the risk of just wounding it with a chancer, just my view on it and happy to have an empty freezer by not taking those shots.