Deer blowing

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Blowing/snorting, whatever it is they do when they figured out something is not right and they warn everything in hearing distance.
My question is, how do you feel that mature bucks respond to an area after this happens. For exsample, this evening I got penned in a tree by 6 does/fawns feeding as it got dark. I waited for a bit thinking maybe they wandered away. I was wrong, once my feet touched the crunchy leaves deer went to blowing about 50 yards away. If a mature buck was close do you feel he will mark that area as danger for a few days or what?
 
cutman said:
Deer snort at the stupidest stuff. If they are really scared, they run. If they don’t know what’s going on, they snort.

I wouldn’t worry about it at all. If deer avoided areas where other deer snorted a few days ago they wouldn’t be able to move!
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This^^^^^.

Here, deer regularly blow at hogs, coyotes, etc. Although I try my best not to let them see me, some times it’s unavoidable. If I’m at home, I’ll get my wife to run over to where I’m hunting to run them off with the sxs, I feel that’s better than them seeing me.

Most all of my stands allow me to slip out the back with little noise and under cover, but one or two don’t. If you have a bunch of crunchy leaves, clear a path with a rake or leaf blower. I’ve done that also.

A buck grunt or coyote howl will usually move does off the plot so I can make my escape. When I commit, I leave in a hurry and never look back. It is what it is !
 
Many times I’ve seen one deer blow, stomp their feet , run and create a ruckus. While other deer in the plot or area just look at them like they’re crazy and go back to feeding.
 
I have been called “high impact” before and that is fine...if I feel by researching that my target deer may use an area in daylight no matter how iffy it is I will try to get there. This year we had a white oak grove that was drawing deer like mad and I remember sitting in there one evening and seeing 9 different bucks. When it got dark I still had deer around and basically they ended up watching me get down and leaving. I had that exact scenario twice with mature bucks near me and all sorts of blowing and running going on... I also hunted that set many mornings and in the morning trying to get there I had deer blowing and running every single time but once. I probably sat deep in our woods in that stand 20 times this fall and I killed both my bucks this year out of it. Both bucks were with a single doe and both were tending. 1 in mid October, early but I saw it with my own eyes, the other was yesterday...probably had 6 sits in that tree for the first buck and then several more to kill that second buck. I only had 1 sit I didn’t see at least 1 buck...don’t worry about a few deer getting spooked occasionally...it’s gonna happen.
 
OkieKubota said:
I have been called “high impact” before and that is fine...if I feel by researching that my target deer may use an area in daylight no matter how iffy it is I will try to get there. This year we had a white oak grove that was drawing deer like mad and I remember sitting in there one evening and seeing 9 different bucks. When it got dark I still had deer around and basically they ended up watching me get down and leaving. I had that exact scenario twice with mature bucks near me and all sorts of blowing and running going on... I also hunted that set many mornings and in the morning trying to get there I had deer blowing and running every single time but once. I probably sat deep in our woods in that stand 20 times this fall and I killed both my bucks this year out of it. Both bucks were with a single doe and both were tending. 1 in mid October, early but I saw it with my own eyes, the other was yesterday...probably had 6 sits in that tree for the first buck and then several more to kill that second buck. I only had 1 sit I didn’t see at least 1 buck...don’t worry about a few deer getting spooked occasionally...it’s gonna happen.
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This is really helpful information for a lot of people. There is a new “gospel” floating around online that says “Thou Shalt Not Hunt The Same Stand More Than Once.” Usually guys are trying to emphasize the importance of not pressuring deer, and I get it. But to think somehow that sitting in the same stand multiple times during the rut is going to inform bucks that aren’t even in the area yet to your presence is stretching things a bit. If your buck beds there everyday, yeah ok. But if’s just a great cruising spot or lockdown area, I say grind it out until he comes by!
 
MilkweedManiac said:
This is really helpful information for a lot of people. There is a new “gospel” floating around online that says “Thou Shalt Not Hunt The Same Stand More Than Once.” Usually guys are trying to emphasize the importance of not pressuring deer, and I get it. But to think somehow that sitting in the same stand multiple times during the rut is going to inform bucks that aren’t even in the area yet to your presence is stretching things a bit. If your buck beds there everyday, yeah ok. But if’s just a great cruising spot or lockdown area, I say grind it out until he comes by!
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I agree, half the bucks you see during the rut might be bucks you have never seen before. My only hard and fast rule is to never discount wind direction getting to or out of my stand. If I can’t use the wind to my advantage coming and going I simply won’t hunt that stand that day. That’s why I have different places to hunt. Especially before daylight, you can never tell where a deer is and to enter the area that you’re gonna hunt is asking for failure if you don’t have the wind IMO. I realize if you’re hunting big woods that ain’t gonna always work, but it’s something I’m gonna always try to do.
 
No doubt, does blow at every little thing! I heard one blowing in a bottom around a week or 2 ago...no one was near this doe. I watched a buck take off and head her way because she gave herself away and he had one thing on his mind.
 
I may be in the minority here, but IMO deer blowing where I am hunting is a bad thing, my experience has been that after a deer snorts, the deer activity for that spot drops drastically for the next hour. And this contributes to the "total accumulated pressure" for that specific area, which to me is also a bad thing.
MilkweedManiac said:
This is really helpful information for a lot of people. There is a new “gospel” floating around online that says “Thou Shalt Not Hunt The Same Stand More Than Once.” Usually guys are trying to emphasize the importance of not pressuring deer, and I get it. But to think somehow that sitting in the same stand multiple times during the rut is going to inform bucks that aren’t even in the area yet to your presence is stretching things a bit. If your buck beds there everyday, yeah ok. But if’s just a great cruising spot or lockdown area, I say grind it out until he comes by!
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I think you hit the nail in the head, multiple hunts in a row on the same stand on a buck travel corridor are OK, but multiple hunts in a row on a food plot or bedding area edge are not, this is the #1 reason that us habitat guys develop dozens of good hunting stands. Here's an oxymoron: I have hunting stands that are such a great hot spot I'd be happy hunting only that spot the entire season, except if I'd hunt only that spot it would get so burned out there'd be zero deer activity there anymore.
 
My grandson killed his rifle 10 point at the same location I killed both my archery bucks this fall. My wife is hunting there this evening because we have a 150” 8 point still using it every 2-3 days just before dark...as a matter of fact he was there with several others the evening after my grandsons hunt...it is not a food plot.
 
I seldom hunt a stand but once a wk but I do hunt the same rut ridge Jst w multiple stands within sometime sight of the other. Deer blowing jst spooked is to me not big concern but if they identify you they prob won’t hang around more than few seconds late n season. Each area of country is certainly diff and I treat hunting Midwest when there much diff than the East for sure. Never hunted the south but I would imagine it the same as my area.
In still hunts I carry a snort call I’ve had for years. IF a deer doesn’t ID you then if you respond w same number of snorts as they used they most times will settle down. They are simply asking who is there.


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