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I got lucky this year. Got my deer the first morning of the first day out. So after i dropped my deer off at the butcher, i took my coyote gear out and started hunting them. Towards the last week of deer season, deer tracks were very few and far between. I didn't use my coyote howler that much but my buddy seems to think i scared all the deer off when i did use it. The first couple of weeks of deer season, there were deer tracks around but on the last week you couldn't buy one even if you had a million dollars. We werent the only ones with the same problem. Camps 5 or 6 miles away from us..some even 10.. couldn't find any deer tracks. (I'm not that good of a coyote caller...) I don't think i scared them off....
 
you didnt scare them off. Coyotes howl every night here and I still see deer around. Hell i've been calling before and deer come out looking to see what is making all that noise.
 
After us two legged critters have been wandering around the woods for a bit, all the deer drift further back in the bush. You disturb their habitat, they move. Tell your buddies to move quieter in the woods, it's their clumsy movements that drive the deer away. Well, that and the smoking, eating on stand, sneezing, blowing their noses, etc, etc, etc. - dan
 
if coyotes scared deer outta the woods, you wouldnt find deer anywhere. ive seen deer and coyotes in the same field before. deer dont fear coyotes unless theres a pack of them, they are sick, or have young with them.

you say towards the end of the season you noticed a lot less tracks? as in the end of december?

thats when deer will yard up. around here its common for areas to have zero deer around this time of year but another bush 200 yards away might have 20+ deer yarded up.

the same can be said for turkey...
 
dan belisle said:
Tell your buddies to move quieter in the woods, it's their clumsy movements that drive the deer away. Well, that and the smoking, eating on stand, sneezing, blowing their noses, etc, etc, etc. - dan
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hmm...we hunt waterfowl 50 yards from my deer stand, squirrel and grouse directly around my stand and deer bedding areas, and coyotes in the same bush and it doesnt effect the deer at all.

my dad has got a deer every year with his bow and he smokes to, on, and from his stands. its all about playing the wind ;)
 
I've been calling yotes just to have a bunch of deer move into the field with me...they are not afraid of natural sounds they are afraid of man made sounds like eating, sneezing, coughing, farting, metal clinking together.....ect anything they see or hear on a daily basis is ok even gun shots.
 
Deer are more annoyed by coyotes than scared. I had a yote run by my watch one time, and 2 minutes later a doe came out the same trail. I know she could smell him, but she followed him anyway...
 
When my wife was at Cornell in Ithica, NY, you would see the deer move into the city limits during hunting season. They seemed to have learned after generations where they were safe from flying lead.
 
I call coyotes a ton after our big game season is over here in Alberta. You bet that howling will run the deer off. Whenever I howl if there are deer within 1 km they will bolt out of the coulees. Seems that if the deer are further than 1 km it gets their attention but they don't run off.

If you are calling dogs and hunting deer at the same time in the same area I would definately leave the howler at home until after deer season.
 
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dan belisle said:
After us two legged critters have been wandering around the woods for a bit, all the deer drift further back in the bush. You disturb their habitat, they move. Tell your buddies to move quieter in the woods, it's their clumsy movements that drive the deer away. Well, that and the smoking, eating on stand, sneezing, blowing their noses, etc, etc, etc. - dan
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+1.
 
i also am from SE NB and hunt almost every minute possible during the four weeks and notice the same changes in movement but from my experience if you take where they sleep and where they eat they are their. they are smart animals but they are also creatures of habit. i have always seen deer all season long but if you travel the woods alot you notice they are their they just change how and when the travel. also i will check in the winter in the same area to see the amount of winter travel occurs to know the change in amout of deer. also smoking never seems to bother any deer i have seen, but i am not a tree nest person so that might make a difference.
 
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