Was cutting the lanes with the mower on our hunting property , and there was a doe that would stand up in the tall grass and watch me go by .
Might have to change my hunting tactic come this deer season .
Could carry my bow while mowing .    

I would think it would be the same from hunting from a combine..... ILLEGAL.

Used to be able to hunt from farm machinery while being used during normal operation in Ohio. Some farmers used to move bales from one side the field to the other during gun season.
Not sure if that is still the law or not.

It was a joak , I doubt I could shoot from my tractor .

I bet that practice session would get the neighbors talking  

I wonder if she had a fawn near by?

Usually in my case for the last two years in a row she had fawns hid out in the tall grass. She had twins and would not leave. Stayed within 50 to 75 yards from me and was really eratic and nervous.

I have a doe that spends a lot of time at my place. I caught a pic of her fawn this year on a trail cam. As long as she is here and producing young she is safe.
When I was a kid hunting from a combine during harvest was common. Probably wasn't legal but still common.

Funny,,, you need to add a small platform behind the seat, maybe above the three point, where someone could stand at the waiting, fully camouflaged head to toe.  I didn't see it, but a friend described seeing folks in a diesel pick up truck road hunting "somewhere" ( don't matter where) with two "hunters" sitting on lawn chairs in the bed, bows at the ready with arrow on the string ( compound in this case, but I guess that isn't the issue), totally camo'd up including headnet and gloves.

Really ?  Pretty sneaky there.

Up until recently, if it had wheels on it, it was a vehicle and you couldn't hunt from it in Wisconsin, even a parked trailer with straw bales on it.
ChuckC

When i worked summers for the DoW I would have to do a good deal of mowing down weeds with a 14' deck  for new food plots or clearings for turkeys or just plain old trails.

Anyways there was this doe who would frequently hang out in this one field on the far west end of the property. One day while mowing that field I found her fawn, all i could see was the little fawn poke his head out of the kosher weeds every 5 minutes or so to watch.  

Funny how some days you can be as quite as you can and spook all the animals and other days you can get right up on them in a tractor. I think they have a 6th sense and know when you are hunting.

Sound like a good idea for a new thread---"show us you mow-kills".  Deer do seem to have a knack of differentiating between our chore mode vs our predator mode.

Never had a deer do it but had foxes sit on the edge of the cut when cutting fields waiting to jump on anything that runs out.

Critters are funny that way. I was mowing paths on a riding lawn mower for an archery shoot that I put on this past weekend at my hunting camp and a Woodcock stood and watched me go by. That has to be the first Woodcock I have seen on my place in 20 years.

I think you could pull it off...it's been done for thousands of years on horseback.  The tractor's slower and you don't have to deal with the "up and down" thing (it's not trying to throw you off).  And you could get the Tesla auto-pilot tractor when they come out and use it as distraction while you stalk in from the blind side!

Graps, do it. You could be on the next episode on "North Woods Law". You'll be famous.

She may have had a fawn or two in the area. I've had that happen to me on several occasions.

I'm always extra careful during first cutting of hay.  Even then I still ran a fawn over last year, hate doing that.  Hard to believe how tight they sit with a large piece of machinery coming their way.  This week I kicked up a deer during hay cutting, it still had spots.

QuoteOriginally posted by Frank Warnke:
I'm always extra careful during first cutting of hay.  Even then I still ran a fawn over last year, hate doing that.  Hard to believe how tight they sit with a large piece of machinery coming their way.  This week I kicked up a deer during hay cutting, it still had spots.

Good move, I always like to give the pheasants and other critters a chance to escape, sometimes they are stubborn but at least we can try.

With all the oil patch activity there was in my area deer were unaffected by a vehicle...I actually had a doe and young buck come closer to check me out

DDave