- Location
- The Conservative part of Ontario
Here's the set up
I'm whitetail hunting Crossbow.
I go out into the field (now a clearing), and make a number of deer scent posts on brush.
I call infrequently, from a ground blind downwind of a major trail. I'm wearing several of HS Scent's Cedar cover scent tabs.
The wind is in my face.
A doe and two fawns appear, comming in from my left. They are too far away to get into the scent posts, and are upwind of them.
I try a call The doe imediately turns my way. Then suddenly Blows a snort? She's a good 50 feet upwind of the scent posts, and a hundred yards from me??
The two fawns raise their tails imediately, but they don't run, and the doe never raises hers. They continue to feed in the area after a bit. I try another call. She ignores it.
They slowly move off, then, back almost out of sight in the bush, and way upwind of everything, she blows a series of snorts. Last I see of them.
An hour later
I see a flicker of white aproaching from my right, and again well upwind and working in my direction. I am well shielded by lots of brush, and the deer keeps coming.
I see another deer, then another, all apear to be does.
One steps out in the clear, and starts to move out into the field like she's going to leave.
I start to plan a stalk, but I am still making like a rock.
There is a tremendous snort, and a giant of a buck blasts out from the scrub brush. I now see five tails, running away.
They stop just inside the bush, in a side by side line.
i figure I'm being mooned by five deer.
They are all looking at something upwind of me??
If that's what spooked them, why are they running towards it?
At no time were the deer anywhere where I had walked, and none were closer than 100 yards away, always upwind, and it was a steady breeze.
They were never even remotely close to the scent posts, and upwind of them too.
Big Bucks have radar??
half an hour later, I see two more deer,or maybe it was some from the last five? Feeding upwind. They ignore my calls, and disappear.
I'm whitetail hunting Crossbow.
I go out into the field (now a clearing), and make a number of deer scent posts on brush.
I call infrequently, from a ground blind downwind of a major trail. I'm wearing several of HS Scent's Cedar cover scent tabs.
The wind is in my face.
A doe and two fawns appear, comming in from my left. They are too far away to get into the scent posts, and are upwind of them.
I try a call The doe imediately turns my way. Then suddenly Blows a snort? She's a good 50 feet upwind of the scent posts, and a hundred yards from me??
The two fawns raise their tails imediately, but they don't run, and the doe never raises hers. They continue to feed in the area after a bit. I try another call. She ignores it.
They slowly move off, then, back almost out of sight in the bush, and way upwind of everything, she blows a series of snorts. Last I see of them.
An hour later
I see a flicker of white aproaching from my right, and again well upwind and working in my direction. I am well shielded by lots of brush, and the deer keeps coming.
I see another deer, then another, all apear to be does.
One steps out in the clear, and starts to move out into the field like she's going to leave.
I start to plan a stalk, but I am still making like a rock.
There is a tremendous snort, and a giant of a buck blasts out from the scrub brush. I now see five tails, running away.
They stop just inside the bush, in a side by side line.
i figure I'm being mooned by five deer.
They are all looking at something upwind of me??
If that's what spooked them, why are they running towards it?
At no time were the deer anywhere where I had walked, and none were closer than 100 yards away, always upwind, and it was a steady breeze.
They were never even remotely close to the scent posts, and upwind of them too.
Big Bucks have radar??
half an hour later, I see two more deer,or maybe it was some from the last five? Feeding upwind. They ignore my calls, and disappear.
