How smart are deer ?

[sourland]

Saw Bucky last night. While I was sitting on the porch he crossed the lane by the gate. It appears that he is either an 8 or 10 pointer this year with a nice sized rack. They'll be hunting him.

 

[bobbi-j]

Saw Bucky last night. While I was sitting on the porch he crossed the lane by the gate. It appears that he is either an 8 or 10 pointer this year with a nice sized rack. They'll be hunting him.

I think you need to lure him inside somewhere and hide him until the season is over.

 

[sourland]

I think you need to lure him inside somewhere and hide him until the season is over.

I told the membership at large that I was going to get 22 birdshot and start shooting him in order to educate that 'man' is bad. Interestingly he seems to be far more wily every time that I have seen him this year. Thought it might be because he was in velvet, but last night his antlers appeared polished, and he was very alert and spooking when he crossed the lane.

 

[drumstick diva]

Sounds like the Texas deer are real wimps, crawling on their bellies to avoid hunters.
How does that make you feel Sean?

 

[itsasmallfarm]

sounds like a nice buck, (would not be the best eating though)

 

[007Sean]

Sounds like the Texas deer are real wimps, crawling on their bellies to avoid hunters.
How does that make you feel Sean?

No dd, they are highly intelligent. They have also gone nocturnal to avoid human contact, sometimes they just stand perfectly still till a hunter passes by, so me thinks their pretty dog gone smart.

 

[itsasmallfarm]

Sounds like the Texas deer are real wimps, crawling on their bellies to avoid hunters.
How does that make you feel Sean?

not sure about deer (heard there pretty smart/tough) but i do know moose are wimps (or i have been told) shoot em and they don't go far my grandpa has always told me.

 

[Pork Pie]

I told the membership at large that I was going to get 22 birdshot and start shooting him in order to educate that 'man' is bad.

Surely a few flyers with your face on it would do the job, Sour

 

[007Sean]

Surely a few flyers with your face on it would do the job, Sour

 

[microchick]

Hunters around here will tell you some funny stories about bucks. One friend told us that he was in his blind one day watching an area that he knew deer bedded down it. The thicket was dense brambles. He watched a buck approach the thicket, look around, drop down on it's knees and crawl into the brambles. He said all you could see was the tips of his antlers sticking up above the thicket.

I've seen does run across the road in front of me while cycling, run into corn fields where the corn was hip high, look around and drop down between the rows. Deer? What deer? No deer here, move along.

The old joke around where we live is your best chance of getting a deer is the first 48 hours of the rifle season. After that they disappear in caves. Actually they go nocturnal unless they are deep in rut. I set one beautiful Sunday morning in our timber, leaning back against a tree and watched a nice buck with only one 5 point antler amble along the neighbor's side of the fence. He stopped, looked at me a few times, sniffed the air, all the while I had him in my sights muttering, 'jump the fence, jump the fence, jump the bleepin' fence!' as I hadn't talked to our neighbor about such a contingency. He still looked at me like he was saying 'neener neener neener, can't shoot me' and slowly walked away sticking to that fence line.

Reminds me. I gotta talk to the neighbor before rifle season.