OK . . so it was a leading question. Of course, they look up . ..as this video of me getting bust last night will attest . .
http://youtu.be/VMyaDbpet6w
:biglaugh:
Kingsnake
Been there to many times I would like to admit! It's always the big ol does :smileystooges:
Actualy... It happend to me this morning!!!!! LMAO :banghead:
LOL, that was a cool video Kingsnake. An old nanny saw something in my tree one morning that she didn't like. She stomped, blew, everything in her bag to make me move, and when she couldn't she headed downwind to try to catch me for sure. That was a bad move. I stood up and turned around when she went out of sight and aerated her when she passed through a small opening just before dead downwind.....
Can I ask what kind of camera you're using?
Gotta wander how she pegged you that easy. They most definately look up, but she acted like she had other reinforcements as to what you actually were. Like an errant breeze. Get'er next time. Good luck and God Bless
Happened to me a couple weeks ago and I still have not figured it out. Ol' Doe was walking quartering away from me, wind was in my face. She slammed on the brakes and snapped her head right up at me. I swear sometimes they have a 6th sense.
i guess they must be smart :biglaugh:
Short answer: yes.
Long answer: yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssss
I've been busted just like that more than a few times. Such is hunting!
Follow up: remember that deer have something like 270 degree vision. So they can see you sometimes when you think you must be in their blind spot.
I think I hunted that same doe yesterday. Busted my butt just like that.
longrifle346---the camera is just a little standard def Sony handycam DCR-SR87. Nothin' too fancy, but it gets the job done.
AWPForester---She (and the rest of the group) approached from crosswind on the downwind side. She definitely had a little of my scent before she moved from the thick cover toward my shooting lane. Then she looked toward what she smelled.
Anytime a deer can peg you with eyes AND ears, it's all over . .
Still . .. it was a blast!
Kingsnake
Heck Yea Deer LOOK UP. And when they do look up
YOU LOOKUP fools them every time !!!!!
Im ready to go sit in a stand. Havent got to hunt this year yet but hopefully thursday. great clip btw !!
They definitely do when you make the rapid climb stirrup on your summit clink as you turn to the wrong side :banghead:
They are fast too! :biglaugh:
Had a real nice 8 look up last evening. :knothead:
It is unreal how some does can spot you sometimes....and really raise a heck of a fuss.
And they can do it from quite a distance, through some real thick woods...... while you are siting there motionless in a ghillie suit 20 feet in the air in a brushed in hemlock. :-)
I had 2 different deer bust me 25' up a tree last week!
YES is the answer to your question!
Bisch
Yep, that particular doe gets around. She sees durn near everybody before the season is over.
One time in a tree stand....shortly after sunrise, a nice buck hiding behind a brush pile looking directly at me.....
I don't know if the rest of the gang with her knew what exactly the threat was, but they sure followed her lead in getting the heck out of Dodge!
Kingsnake
QuoteOriginally posted by BowHunterGA:
Happened to me a couple weeks ago and I still have not figured it out. Ol' Doe was walking quartering away from me, wind was in my face. She slammed on the brakes and snapped her head right up at me. I swear sometimes they have a 6th sense.
I think they call it a "back draft". Hunt the wind is easy. Manage the back drafts and the thermals in the terrain...not so much.
Busted! ;)
I've seriously considered putting a "dummy" (other than myself) in my treestand as a decoy and digging a pit blind. Actually, I've killed more than one nosy old doe by putting up a second treestand and killing them while they're looking for me in the first one. Use their superior intelligence against them!
Kingsnake: how soon are you going back to that stand?
Around here that stand would be off limits for at least two weeks. For some old does, that stand would be cursed forever.
+1 on the 6th sense especially old does.
I think one doe even knew my truck and just made a tour of my stands until she found me!
Oh ya and once they see you, they will look up at your stand every time and start going way out around you.
If I get busted like that I'll stay out for a while and then usually move trees.
I won't be back in that stand for a while . .but that's more because I won't be able to get back to that property for at least a week. Even then, I have a few other stands on that property that I can hunt instead.
The problem is . . .the lone white oak in that creekbottom is dropping acorns NOW. This property is primarily pulp-wood pines. Only the creek bottoms have any mast crop at all. Unfortunately, most of it is red oak. This little white oak was key to my successful hunts with the wheelie . . .
Kingsnake
She is diffently educated. Maybe she sky lined you? Try a different tree next time. Lol. Good luck lawman
Yep. especially if I make noise.
I got busted big time this morning by a wise doe. The wind was right and I was motionless. All I can figure is that she saw a 240# squirrel hanging off the side of a tree and knew something wasn't right with that picture. Some foot stomps, a couple snorts, and she and her brood were outta there.
Sometimes they pattern us better than we pattern them. Seems this old girl may be familiar with the dangerous places on your hunting tract. I truly believe that experienced does teach their young to look up.
A few years back I had a VERY nice buck walk into the woodlot I was hunting. I couldn't shoot him cause it was earn a buck rules. I watched as he took a few steps and very obviously looked around (up) into the trees ahead and repeated the process through the woodlot. No doubt what he was doing.
ChuckC
An old "horsehead" doe is a trophy!! She taught that cagey buck everything he knows. I've had them walk headon into range trying to locate me in a tree, blowing nearly every step, and then, whirl and be gone, along with every deer in the field-never offering a decent shot. A week later all the deer still checked out that tree and gave it a wide berth, not even the fawns would get within range of it (I knew what would happen and had already moved my stand).
A couple years ago I had a nice buck trailing a big old doe. She came by me at about ten yards. The buck was going to pass into my shooting lane at about 15 yards. I waited for the doe to get by me before I tried to draw on the buck. She was about five yards past me to my left. The buck stepped into my lane and I started to draw. Out of the corner of my eye I caught movement to my left, then I heard that dreaded sound you heard on the video. She blasted out of there and so did the buck, even though he never knew just why.
The next weekend, I was in the same stand. I saw a big doe coming down the fence line upwind of me. About every ten yards or so she would stop and look up into the trees. When she was about forty yards away, she found what she was looking for...ME! I was sitting dead still, but she still picked me off, snorting and flagging across the pasture.
Those big old does don't get that way by being stupid or forgetful. If you want a true trophy, try killing one of those old donkey-faced does. They make the bucks look like amateurs!
yes they do. seen them do it many times
I've noticed they are almost like dragon hunters: one eye on the sky all the time. :rolleyes:
Well, I have other stands to hunt, but if she tries that during muzzleloader ... ;)
Kingsnake
I have a simple rule. If a deer looks at me in a tree. I will either shoot them right then or hunt them until I do. A trick I've used is to leave the stand in palce and put another 20 yds away. This has worked for me on big does. It took me two yrs to take one out. It did not matter if the wind was right , where she came in from no matter what she would stop 10 yds from the field edge and look at that tree she busted me in stmp,snort and raise holy hell clear the field and walk away. I finally got her using a ghillie suit and a brush pile.I also think they past that trait of looking up to the young deer.
On Long Island they walk through the woods looking up. I've been busted 45 yards away during October when the leaves are still on the trees and really brusehed in. Unbelivable.
To kill an old doe is an accomplishment.