The Sixth Sense of game animals

You mean like how the moment I decided to leave an area just now, making a ton of noise DRIVING out of the bush, a very healthy whitetail specimen decides to teasingly jump 5m in front of the car across the trail???


Noobie question - should I be looking to stalk the spot that it crossed and see if it will for last light? Or is it likely a bad /missed opportunity?
 
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My brother is vegetarian and gets mobbed by wildlife while I don't. On the old Barnett range in BC, the deer would stand in front of the targets and mock us from time to time, silently quoting BC hunting regs, or so it seemed.

I wish I had ESP, although when I look at they way people drive, maybe I do.
 
This is absolutely true. I had an experience where I walked to the end of a clear cut and had the distinct sense that something was just inside the treeline so I glassed it for a while and then turned and started to walk out. I hadn't gone very far when I turned back around and saw a guy coming out of the trees. He had literally pushed bush for a kilometer or so to get around to the end of that cut and had been sitting there all stealthy, watching me the whole time.

He asked me if I had heard or seen him and why I had glassed that area where he had been hiding. I told him I just felt something was there, couldn't explain it. I was really glad though I had used my binos and not my riflescope when I glassed when I thought about it later.
 
Ran into a moose while bird hunting. He stopped at 50 paces and looked. Stood broadside for a minute or two, turned back, finally decided to leave. I'm convinced he knew we were a week outside of season and I was packing 7.5's.
 
Turkeys walked beneath my tree stand every day in early October, once the season opened, not one trotted by..
 
I had that experience this fall while bow hunting. I made a great half mile stalk on a 190" mulie bedded in a wheat field. I waited for 2.5 hours 35 yards away from him waiting for him to stand and stretch. My legs and feet were falling asleep and I was getting quite uncomfortable. I stared at his antlers almost willing him to stand and stretch. All of a sudden his head bolted up, he looked my direction and stood up and bounded off before I knew what had happened. I'm an experienced mule deer hunter and was directly downwind and silent the whole time. He just knew something was up.
 
The fact that animals and especially people can tell if they are being watched is easy to prove. Check out a nice looking woman walking down the street or in a store and see if she doesn't turn around and see who is looking at her.
I have a bunch of blind pigs waiting for the end of hunting season in a pen and they know when I am checking them out almost like they can see me. Also you can get a pig to walk past you if you turn your head and not look at them and they will go past you but if you look at them they shy away.
 
I don't think there's anything supernatural required to explain the phenomenon.

They don't need a sixth sense, they just need some of the five main senses to be excellent.

For example, when you're hunting you're likely moving in such a way (sight / sound) and giving off smells / pheromones (scent) that the animals can pick up on because they've evolved for thousands of years to pick up on and avoid things that predators do.
 
hoytcanon said:
I'm not superstitious... I deal with my quarry's "five" senses and do ok... the sixth sense doesn't appear to help them much.
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I like this post hehehe
I do have an open mind to esp, ghosts, ect ect, heck even bigfeets ..... but if the deer I hunt have a 6th sense.... mine must be just a little bit better :evil:
 
45ACPKING said:
I like this post hehehe
I do have an open mind to esp, ghosts, ect ect, heck even bigfeets ..... but if the deer I hunt have a 6th sense.... mine must be just a little bit better :evil:
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No you wowdee wasckal.
Whut yewsze gartzs is called "eyes".
I'm a bit coloured blind and need to look for movement.
Them furs mold into the background camo style fer me eyes.
Pizz me awff.
 
I avoid staring at game and once you decide to take that animal ie: a nice buck, moose or elk, take your eyes off the rack. I've heard of hunters so focused on the rack they either got serious "buck fever" or sent a round through the rack.
 
Sometimes, when everything is just right, and I am totally in tune with my surroundings, I can sense a game animal far away that I have no other clue is there. It is not seeking with the senses, but the mind. I just open myself to the possibility and sense its presence. Have found and killed a few deer that way. It doesn't seem to work for me with the smaller critters, Don't know why.
 
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

Hamlet
 
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