Got a laugh yesterday

[powdergun]

I was helping some family finish harvest and I was sitting in the grain truck waiting for another load to haul. My rifle was back at the farm so shooting a deer was not on the agenda for the day. At about 5:30 a buck walked out from a small bluff on the next quarter and began to feed. About this time a half ton starts coming down the grid and the buck quietly steps back into the bush. The truck passes and the buck comes out again. Ten minutes later the same truck comes back ( Road hunter ) and the bucks slips back into the bush again then comes back out after he passes by. I watched this happen three times and the fellow never saw the deer at all. After the truck was gone for good the buck leaves the bluff and walks casually across wide open stubble in search of love.

We had a tractor and a grain truck running by that deer the whole time. I even whistled and waved my arms at him and he wasn't bothered in the least. How the heck could he tell the difference. I guess if I had the rifle in the truck he would of some how of known. The whole thing was good for a laugh

 

[srt4u2nv]

Deer are creatures of habit they spend the whole year with farmers and their machinery and never end up dead but every time that damn truck comes down the road my buddies fall over.....lol....

 

[Aries-]

its like the deer around my parents place. they come out and feed on grass outside their back window. you can stand there and watch them all you like untill you have that thought "boy your a big one. you would look good on a plate with some tatoes" their heads pop up and they go running off into the bush. im pretty damn sure they have some sort of 6th sense about things like that.

 

[bck1968]

My friends and I have a theory that the deer spend their summer reviewing the hunting regs.

 

[gasoperated]

A friend has hunted the same farmer's land for years. There's a very large buck that's known in the area. It has a distinguishing mark that's most likely an old wound.

Each and every year he sees the buck hanging with the females on his trail cameras overlooking his carrots. Each and every year that buck stops being spotted a week before hunting opens and returns a week after it's all over. He swears the buck has patterned the hunting season into it's behavior.

The first year he hunted there he picked a spot close to a heavy traffic trail. Opening morning he parked his 4-wheeler a good distance from his spot thinking the deer may be cautious because it's not the farmer's and they won't be used to seeing it. He spent the morning watching the parade of deer leave their trail before getting close to him to go sniff his 4-wheeler and he never got a decent shot.

I love stories like these

 

[BrotherRockeye]

dang straight they pattern hunters...
added traffic on opening day is a great signal for them...that and the smell of K-Fry garbage beside the roads...

I had 3 good bucks watch me(ignore me really) bale last year less that 200 yds away...only saw 2 of them once the season started tho...guess which one got sneaky?

 

[DVXDUDE]

deer and coyotes love tractors. Have had coyotes walk about 50 yards away from the combine while combining beans. Didnt even look at it, Really wish I had the gun.