Thread: Spooking Deer

Whats everyones experience when spooking a deer, yesterday i spooked a Hind and a yearling it only run 10m then stopped. it was not in clear sight so i could not take the shot but it stood there until the wind swirled and blew my scent towards them. which resulted in a bark and bail. question if they only moved 10m the first time, would they only move off a little bit more then wait again or after the bark and bail would they go hundreds of meters. i did not walk through where they bailed to so i didnt pressure them anymore. be keen to hear what other experience.

Bro , I thought i taught you better lol.!My experience, see you and they walk off , can get them to stop if you whistle , bark at them. If they sent you they will go but sometimes are curious and just around next corner. In my experience if they bark at you they they are gone never to be seen again!!

Originally Posted by Mohawk660

Bro , I thought i taught you better lol.!My experience, see you and they walk off , can get them to stop if you whistle , bark at them. If they sent you they will go but sometimes are curious and just around next corner. In my experience if they bark at you they they are gone never to be seen again!!

i knew it was a deer but due to obstructions i was not prepared to fire for safety reasons. we wont talk about your pig hunting aye bro. i did wonder about making a noise but what noise will hold them and what noise will make them bolt.

It all depends on that deers life experience really.

Depends on how much pressure they have, when they are spooked from noise or movement they sometimes don't go that far. When they wind you they are usually gone, if the wind is swirling with luck they can come bolt towards you.

@Ryan_Songhurst @bigbear very low hunting pressure. ie im pretty much the only human with in 1km

Sometimes you can follow and get a second chance but they will be a bit more on edge and on high alert.

This boy does a reasonable job of the mew call
Jump to 14:50 - and listen and study on the Stag he pulled up
Good clip - he would have shot prob a doz Deer if using a rifle - all in bush to I might add -but he was going for his 1st Long Bow score

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYsn7YkC_ig&t=1610s

I use the above all the time - but they get cunning to it real quick
But in you case it will work a treat
Practice it 1st - preferablly away from any people or they will think your gone mad

I liken it to a 3yr old kid saying no (neh neh - and with a nasel twang !!

if the ONLY see you,or ONLY hear you..they might do as you have described but NORMALLY if the scent you its game over....reds are well known for the stop and look back to see what spoked them.
heavily hunted animals go and dont stop....quiet animals with little pressure may hang around...as Ryan said...it depends on their life experience......the quick and the dead.... slow deer and ones who stop to look dont last long under heavy pressure.

what sarvo says....I use NEWK......almost like nek minute...go to paddock of deer and watch n listen.

That guy is good I watch all his videos

Originally Posted by Sako851

That guy is good I watch all his videos

He’s a goer ah
Gave his partner a pair of my Talan boots - they'd just got married
Look what he wears on his feet

Runs a 240 trap line - stays night on snowline - clears line on way down next day.
Stays Fiord - back up the line next day etc
Sees a LOT of Deer !!

Someone with bush knowledge must of taken him under their wing at a very early age - he knows too much to have had it come to him via mistakes like most of us :-)

Was hunting fallow on Saturday, had one of those dry throat moments where I started coughing and damn near choking. Bunch of fallow walked around the corner of a hill to see wtf was going on. They hung around long enough for my son to get a shot in but he pulled it.

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.