Tight Lines
Senior Member
Exactly. That pinch point in my back yard is never devoid of human scent, and there is always a leaf blower, kid, or dog yet they slink through there every day, twice per day. If they were as skittish as the deer on my lease, never happen. If I was trying to walk into their bedding areas up and down the creek, I suspect a different story.I think it's all kind of subjective. Elfi's example of hunting in the swamp behind the office. He was hunting somewhere that people don't typically go. If there were human activity constantly in that swamp, then the deer wouldn't have been nearly as easy to spook. I used to live in a neighborhood on Lake Jackson and shooting the "pet" deer in the neighborhood was off limits. Momma's rule. But they would let us come outside and get within a few feet of them while they were feeding. Wouldn't ever spook and could have easily been killed. My hunting club was across the cove on 300 acres and it was a totally different story over there. In these neighborhoods where they are being hand fed by every other neighbor and are accustomed to people being in the "woods" they are 100% easier to kill.
My in-laws live on Lake Jackson and the deer actually follow them in the golf cart like dogs or chickens...while they toss corn out...and if they don't toss the corn out the deer get real aggressive and close trying to get to the buckets...
Them must be short bus deer...