Grew up being taught how to hunt without stands or blinds. I cant tell you how many times we have looked eye to eye. Hunting this way has made my immediate reaction to freeze no matter what position I am in. Situating myself for the shot, raising my rifle or bow. When that neck moves I freeze until the deer goes back to whatever it was doing. I'm constantly looking for the next thing that will obstruct the deer's vision and I will make my largest moves quickly. If there's nothing between them and me well I think I actually move slower than the DMV in that case. Lol I now enjoy trying to get away with it under multiple sets of eyes in the area because 1 or 2 just isn't usually a challenge anymore. Patience, exstreamly subtle movements, prior preparation to eliminate unexpected noises and being more alert than the deer. The closest I have been to a doe was about 3 and a half feet. I was sitting on the outside edge of a downed tree top. She walked right to me and passed beside me. She didn't have the slightest clue I was there. I carry a bowie knife on the hunt and if I would have had it in my hand I could have reached out and touched her with the tip I believe. My eyeballs are the only thing I felt safe enough to move at that distance though. I will never forget that day. If she knew what she had done I bet she wouldn't have ether. Lol. Anyway, good luck and good hunting.
80% of deer hunting is setting up the right place and the right time period. If you have your own land you set your own stands you set your own feeder you have plots you have cameras,you know exactly where those deers are going to be because that's where you want them to be because that's where you feed them. you know exactly what time they're coming in and out because you position cameras you MAKE the right place and you make the right time sure every time you go out there and sit your stand is that big one going to come out that you've been waiting for that you seen on your camera? no, but he will come there eventually or was he there but seen or smelled you before you ever had a chance at him? Did you not do your part ? If you do everything right you can get them there it's not a sure thing but it's definitely not right place right time, you first have to have deer in your area then you have to get them on to your fields then you have to do your part as a hunter to be able to harvest that dear
@@liamaaronduran most deer hunters can't track a deer. If ya cant track it, i dont have respect for that hunter. I give more respect to someone who can track and follow a deer
Jeremiah Fyan some of you folks need to realize tracking and stalking deer isn’t possible in every part of the world. For one, it’s illegal in a lot of places. Still hunt only here. Too many idiots out there, to be waltzing through the woods. And thickets where you can’t see 5 yards in front of you and have to jack up a tree at least 30 feet just to be above all the under growth. Loggers just strip cut my area and now I can finally scout tracks and see where the deer are actually traveling. Turns out, the deer are in my area, they were just traveling through a thicket 150-200 yards on the other side of a bottom. Hopefully I’ll catch a big buck slipping in a couple weeks.
That really threw me for a loop, too. "The more you understand about how a deer's vision works..." 5 seconds later: "Okay, now that we understand how a deer's vision works..."
In my youth, I was one heck of a still hunter. I'm a traditional archer so I always had to be within 40 yards, preferably far closer. I've shot deer as close as twenty feet away by stalking them. Lots of fun. Now that I'm over 40 I prefer a blind in front of a food plot. Way less work.
For the majority of my life, I hunted from the ground still hunting/stalking. Now old age and health problems prevent me from doing it. Although I still hunt from the ground, I do it in a deer blind. I read an article many years ago that actually got me into the still hunting/stalking. It was called "The Curtain of Vision". Simply put, in the woods, all animals can see just so far and then it's like a curtain has been drawn and they cannot see beyond that point. Since deer cannot see behind them, if you jump one in the woods, it often will run straight away until just before it reaches it's curtain of vision and then it will either circle right or left so it can see you and what you are doing. Often, once they do, they will stop before they slip off into invisibility. So, while walking, I never cared if I was seen or not. I just slipped through the woods until the deer appeared (often flagging me in the process), stayed perfectly still, and then bring my binoculars up and watched for it to make that circle and stop. For my first 50 yrs. of hunting, I never stuck out. I always killed at least one and usually 2 deer a year and at least 75% of them were killed using the method described above. BTW, my hunting areas were Southwest Arkansas and Northwest Georgia.
I got 2 this season still hunting, sitting down. One with crossbow and the other with .308. Sat perfectly still until they looked the other way. Got both on the move, right through the heart. Both bled out within 50 yards. Good video. Hold still!
#1 Smell , make the wind work for you , #2 take away your silhouette with a background , #3 be still using slow motions to look for signs or approach , # 4 color camouflage suited for the area and the season ! With this I have hunted on the ground and had deer come within feet of me , it’s a thrill just in itself !
I agree with everything you have said except for the wind. I have hunted for 20 years and never once checked the wind. I kill deer ever year. Deer still mine no matter the weather in my experience
Very true about your silhouette from a tree stand. I hunted for years from a store-bought tree stand without any camouflage and wondered why some years were a bust. A few years ago, I went with my wife to check my cameras and lay out some bait apples. While I was swapping the cards in the cameras, my wife sat in my tree stand (probably thinking “what the hell does he see in this?”. I could see her silhouette starkly contrasted with the clear blue sky. I might as well been hunting with a neon sign saying “Warning! Hunter here!”. Using my old Army training (the five Ss of camouflage, Shape, Shine, Silhouette, Shadow and Sound), I purchased a cam net from a surplus store and draped it behind and around the seat and shooting bar. I couldn’t believe the difference. I get my deer every season now. All the money we spend on high tech gadgets, and my fix was a simple $30 surplus camo net. It took care of my shape, silhouette and shadow, shine and sound were already taken care of.
I still hunt on the ground with a bow and let me tell you, hunting from a tree is no where near as exciting. The thrill of a herd of deer moving towards you on the ground is unexplainable.
@@hiTCAM00 Yeah it is a lot easier with a rifle and effective too. If you're bow hunting I've found that you have to know how they move through an area to be able to move in a way that you'll be able to get a shot at them with a bow.
I've got a acorn spot where the camera picked up two does feeding at 1:30 in the afternoon, and another day 8 in the morning, problem is they show up on the cam about twice a week. My question is do they alternate between different feeding areas everyday or were they still feeding in that spot but just out of sight of the camera? And why the heck were they feeding that early in the afternoon?it's public land with quite a bit of human traffic. Weird.
chances are they are not bedding in that area and they may be different does than the last time. Find the thick brush and food source (combined in one area) and you may be close to the bedding areas.
where I live we have several fields that are farmed every year and usually a mix of corn and alfalfa, which deer love. And in the winter the alfalfa stays green and they eat that. I'm pretty sure they are bedding down in the woods here because there are some thickets in there, but I do not own much of the wooded property so I don't go in very far I hunt the fields edge. Btw; if you have a trail camera, you need to secure it either in a box or at least bolt it to a tree or fence post. I had my camera stolen 2 weeks ago, it was on my property, at the fields edge, no one should have been there, but someone got it anyways. That thing may disappear on you eventually, especially if its on public land or if there are houses near by like in my situation.
I forget the name of the new cameras that send a duplicate copy of your pictures to a remote box 70' or so away. Literally, you can hide the box anywhere and the thief won't find it. With a little luck you captured him on camera and he will see the antenna and leave your shit alone. The other thing to do is have abhidden camera pointing at your visible game camera and wallla jail time.
Can deer sense fear and other emotions from you? When I'm being sneaky and actually looking for deer, I can't find them. But when I'm just walking casually through a field or forest, I end up walking right up on them. It's weird.
Deer are conditioned to avoid predators. When you are "sneaky" you are acting like a predator. When you are "just walking casually" you are not acting like a predator. Deer notice the difference.
As much as I try to learn about Whitetails, mostly geared toward hunting. A magnificent doe is bedding in my back yard, she comes abt 11:30pm (I hear a thud as she jumps the fence) and leaves for the day 9:30am.I see her bedding and eating throughout the night & bedding in the morning. So graceful I get an incredible feeling of peace watching her. We're in an urban area with a large park abt 1/2 mile behind my house. My backyard all fenced, front facing a busy road. She goes out of her way to get here it seems. It's July, I read they leave their fawns on forest floor for hours. Hard for me to determine her age, looks young, big and healthy, her coat is solid, even, not a mark on it. I've seen her drink from the bird bath and she eats a lots of my plants & grazes but it's worth giving her a hand in survival. How can I help her in winter? What can I leave outside for her? We get a ton of snow. Also she looks in the Windows a lot and stands facing them sometimes. She's turned her head at me and I see her big eye and then she turns head back. I just walk backward away from.the window. So far she hasn't bolted and seems relatively unafraid in the yard. Is this what you call an urban deer? I wonder about her.
I always scouted for crossings in the summer... then set up on the crossing against a tree when the season hit... I also like to hike up a mountain in the dark, and then slow walk a trail... a few steps and then listen for a while... hear some leaves and twigs breaking then don't move and wait for them to step out...takes patience.
I have taken several deer in blue jeans and dark shirt. I do use camouflage clothing but I know without a doubt breaking up my silhouette is by far more important. I ground hunt only, I tuck myself back into cover as low as possible. Another tip is don't sit right at the edge of a field when hunting a field. Set yourself a few yards back into the darkness and make sure you don't have light behind you exposing your silhouette. Remember darkness is your friend when hunting.
Like the gentleman in the video said, deer see in 2D right? If that's true, then maybe they get confused because vehicles don't move. They do obviously but maybe they see a car and you know you can't see the wheels or "legs" so maybe they get confused by that? I don't know, that's my hypothesis and I'm sticking to it!
I am a animal biologist and one of my college professors did research on deer’s eyes and the oils in the retina. Their conclusion was deer see black, white, blues and yellows. Also when deer can smell anywhere from 5,000 to 10,000 time better than us, it opens a whole different world we have no idea how predict what cover scents will work and won’t or how effective they really are to us for hunting. If it is anything like dogs, they smell in layers where they smell each ingredient separately but not like us all mixed together.
I can agree iv killed several deer with my hair smelling like good shampoo, i have got were I hunt with the wind worry less about scent covers and camo. Not putting cover sents, or camo down, Iv just found out more so than not that face to the wind, be still and be quite works so that's what I do. Shrugs.
I also think that deer are pretty smart, I always see a lot of deer before hunting season but as soon as I get on that stand on the first day of modern gun season there’s nothing.
@@Lips1410 because they will smell you when the wind is in there favor ,and they will see you long before you see them ,plus never enter your hunting site the same way.
Funny seeing all these comments how to wall quietly deer can tell how a human walks it's not about being quiet it's how you walk think how loud squirrel are it's the distinct sound they are use to. The best way to get in the woods is to imitate a squirrel meaning take a few steps with the tip of your foot move leafs around also a huge tip is learn how to make that squirrel bark sound with your mouth me and my dad do this walk up on deer all the time evening when they spool make that sound doesn't effect them. Also scent control and wind direction is key deer will smell you and be gone you won't even know it. Seen it this year I was set up on the edge of a field before my dad got out he was walking to a stand and the wind shifted a nice buck instantly got up and moved off that made me think how many times has that happend before
Hunter orange is mandatory here, but I've never had a problem with deer seeing me. I was sitting on the edge of a field once and could hear a deer approaching from behind. It was getting closer and closer, so close in fact that I decided it must be a squirrel or grouse. It got really, REALLY close, and then the noise stopped. For a few minutes I sat perfectly still and could hear nothing else. I very slowly turned my head and almost jumped out of my own skin - there was a doe standing right behind me. I quite literally could have kissed her full on the lips had I wanted to. She jumped, I jumped, she screwed off, no shots fired. Hell, had I wanted to shoot I would have had to push her away to get the gun up
I have had deer walk up to me less than 12 yards away, I'm climbing down from a treestand they stand and just look at me,i stay still as long as possible, and they just look at me.one will snort at me ,they all walk away.is amazing, they know exactly when I can't see my sights
Just had this happen! I even walked towards it thought! Then it walked towards me. Got about 8-10ft away Granted I had a very bright headlamp on. Was looking for my cat..who decided to try to pounce the deer after it stared at me for a good 2 minutes
I’ve been still hunting or ground hunting for 30 years with a muzzle loader and have rarely not come home with a deer, I hunt with a group of guys who all use tree stands and I’ve shot just as many deer as them and don’t find myself getting board to tears sitting for hours on a 2x2 seat. I admit that I’ve not gotten a few deer because they’ve seen me before I’ve see them (always a challenge) but have loved every minute of it!
Never worn camouflage. It doesn't matter and just looks daft imo. Stay down wind and move slowly, freeze when they look at you. I've had them 30 feet away and look straight at me standing in the open. They will go back to feeding if you're still.
Thee is also a deer's ability to smell not to mention needing to take into consideration how we will see a deer have it's head to the ground and then all of a sudden look up in the opposite direction toward the edge of the woods that's at least a hundred yards away and not long after, another deer walks out and so hearing is more likely what it is until there is deeper research on the actual specifics for what a deer's vision is and isn't capable of
I agree with the comment below .....stillhunting is actually hunting!😁 And after four decades of hunting , I see no advantage in camo for hunting mammals.(Except those that shoot back!)
What effect does blaze have? I live in minnesota where the upper 50%+ has to be covered in blaze (chest, arms, head in fair weather. In snow most have a full blaze suite)
They do not see the blaze-orange like we do. They see more as a block of uninterrupted tone, which makes natural camo in your stand even more important. Also, it is key to make sure you do as much as possible to eliminate ultra-violet (UV enhancers in detergent, etc) by using after market treatments if needed. Best, Daniel Schmidt
I don't know how deer eyes vs. horse eyes, but I know blaze orange scares the bah geese's out of my wife's horse. we've had him for 23 of his 28 year's and he knows what I look like, my scent, my voice and how I walk and move. I can walk up to him in his pasture wearing any street clothes and he pays me no attention. as soon as I put on blaze orange I cant get near him. he will snort and run away.
Hillary Eisenbarth hell yes. In PA we have to wear orange during the fall season. Yeah, it goes just like you imagine it would. You pretty much have to ambush them from behind a huge ass tree
Deer also memorize every little detail of their habitat. When deer move around in alert mode they can spot a candy wrapper at 100 yards or better. I have also seen deer just walk right into a new campsite completely unaware when there was no hunting pressure. My wife and I had a doe lead a 8 point buck into our camp within 10 yards. We had a campfire, a 10 man tent, camp chairs and my truck there. It was the opening day of deer season and my wife shot both while sitting in her camp chair. Deer without hunting pressure will walk right into your lap. But once hunting pressure exist they become very alert to everything.
Hunting off the ground I always lay a log\stick at an angle from the ground to the tree I'm against. Not sure why, but it works great and always breaks you up.
Great question. I use scents (scrape drippers) mainly from August on, but mock scrapes can provide action in the off-season as well if you are looking to get trail camera photos.
A whitetailed deer is a blind dog, compared to an elk. You want challenge that often requires 400-yard (or longer shots), take up trophy elk hunting...it will REALLY make you re-think how 'attentive' deer are, and put it in a far more useful perspective.
The most fun I ever had deer hunting was sneaking up in fresh quiet snow on two does. I wasn’t interested in taking them only in learning what I could get away with. They let me load my rifle, take a couple photos text those photos, walk back to my gear and then come back to them at about 75 yards a second time. All from downwind over about 30 minutes starting in relative darkness into broad daylight. What a riot. It was as though they couldn’t SEE me. Like it didn’t register in their brain.
I think that deer have photographic memory and that they are constantly scanning and making sure everything is basically the same as it was the last time they came through. When something is different it causes the to change their paths, weather its the lingering smell if another animal, if anything is disturbed or broken, etc. Their hearing is amazing many of times when another dear enters a field its because they kind of know certain deer and their movements and times of exit and entry. We know this of dear and they know it of each other, especially when they've been following their routines unbothered by human interference and predators.
Stephen Klick yup. Few years ago I was climbing my stand and a small cedar branch broke off and fell down onto the trail. I thought I should get down and move it. Half hour later the big guy I was after came out of the swamp and was making his way up the trail about 40 yds away he stopped and stared straight at that branch. Turned around calmly left.
When a deer jerks their head up from the ground and turns it quickly, it is not because they saw something, as you said. They jerk their head up and turn it toward a sound or a scent. Then, they see something; in my experience.
Deer in low-"pressure" areas are a completely different animal from those on alert. A low-p deer who has never seen a human, in the deep woods, will walk under your stand, and chill there, a high-p deer in semi-suburban fields/woods will scent you from way off, no matter the wind direction, and may still approach but is more likely to eventually see something out of place and look through you in your $25 ebay ghillie suit and if you are perfectly still, may go back to eating or begin exiting slowly, or blow out of there fast (Ideally, close one eye before she spots you, and squint out of the other (makes a difference sometimes) don't move, ever, before or after you see deer around you, they can see a wide angle, but usually if they are eating, you can move snail slow to draw or position). How they respond to the split second of human scent that blew the wrong way, or to seeing a blind, ghillie suit or glint off something depends on their age... an old doe gets as cagey as mature bucks, people saying "deer" do this and "deer" do that, what age and sex deer, and how much and what kind of pressure are present in an area? Scents do work, maybe not how you wished, estrous draws doe and young buck following those doe which are following your pee scent in pre-rut. Deer on high alert in pressure areas do smell your tracks NO MATTER if you have new boots aged in a shed with no scents for 2 years, sprayed with $40 scent spray and ozoned with a machine, they do smell the tracks, or see the footprints or something, I've watched them follow me, it's nuts. Low pressure deer must be less tuned in to the scent they have capability, but not interest in pursuing. As far as estrous scent, the young buck will slowly come up to the does you've attracted to your scents, they will run at the doe and effectively chase the doe away, trying to find the non-existent one with the estrous scent to breed, the doe, they will scatter. In rut you may lure a mature buck, but a grunt tube, sometimes antler rattling, will also work at times. If you use scent, they want to see her before coming out of cover, pressured deer, they will stand, invisible to you, for 30 minutes plus, no movement, out of sight range, and very capable of seeing any movement from you, especially when they've picked your scent up on an errant breeze wafting to them once for a single second, boom, they are on to you, now they stare and try to see, what is that stenchy thing? It's quite a game. You can hunt pressured deer from the ground, but you have to blend.
Wear different types of camo helps to break up your image such as realtree pants , mossyoak jacket , and woodland hat . Your not doing a fashion show ,your trying to breakup your silhouette . So mix it up !
I have had deer come with in 30 yards from me. Was sitting on the ground no blind and the sucker still saw me. It looked directly at me for about 2 minutes trying to figure out what I was. It didn't last forever because she had a buck chasing her. What a show that was.
sight is still way more important, staying hidden from the deer. one can easily overcome their scent-smelling, simply by always keeping the wind in your face. personally, I have never found scent to be an issue. don't use any scent-control products and often eat timmeh's on the way to the bush. hasn't prevented me from getting deer. but still-hunting is awesome, move 10 yards or so, stand behind a tree for 15 minutes or so, glassing everywhere in front of you, then pick a tree and move slowly to it, and repeat and repeat. works extremely well.
I ain't picky I just wanna get my first deer, it's tough hunting public land here in the northeast, I've hunted the entire bow season without even seeing a deer, at this point I'll shoot anything brown with four legs :D but it won't matter if I'm holding a rocket launcher if I can't even see a deer, it's beyond frustrating.
If It’s Brown It’s Down This year it’s hard to see a deer I hunt nearly every day And only seen 3 deer. There’s so many acorns this year it’s gonna be Hard this year to kill a deer. Best way to see a deer Is find there bedding area There you should see something
Don't pride yourself with just killing anything brown, hunting is an art that goes back literally millions of years of human history. Hunt for the thrill, but also hunt to get the meat and even fur resource and appreciate what the animal has given you. It's only way to live sustainable with nature so that future generations have this valuable resource. There, I'll get off my soapbox now :P
Nutjob Joe hey its alright youll get one eventually. I hunted the entire bow season and only seen 2 deer and i would of shot them if they werent running
What I found is, it doesn't matter what color, if it's different from what they are used to, it gets their attention . To Hunt, a verb suggests movement. I stop only to rest a few minutes,then the sneak is on again, blend with the environment, more very slow and take the challenge of meeting them on their terms
While still hunting I did some experimenting, especially with small does. Sitting on a small stool in front of a big tree I had a few small does come right up to within 5 feet of me. I would put my hands in front of me and wave at them and they would just look at me but as soon as I moved my hand outside the outline of the tree they were gone. All I was wearing was blue jeans and a shirt, nothing camo.
I see a lot of comment about orange and I think folks are missing the point. We are taught the colors of the rainbow is a guy named Roy G Biv. That is what we see. There are colors past I and V (Indigo, Violet)-like ultraviolet and other crap we cant see. Our spectrum is Roy G Biv. A deer's starts around Green and goes past ultraviolet. This is why orange is ok to wear.
I just sit in my barn on the farm which is right next to where they cross through my land sets me up perfectly to get one, deer move in a schedule just know where they usually are and at what time and you can get them no problem.
Camo and everything else is great. But the key is to be still, don't move. Sitting on a walk way in bright yellow shirt with black pants on a blue plastic chair I had a deer walk 4 feet in front of me. Just learn to be still.
...blue range...green range...yellow range....? hey..that covers basically the whole range of the color palette.... Blues at the UV range, Yellow at the IR end, and Green in the middle...green comprises about 60% of what we two-hoofed animals see....if a grouse remains motionless, you won't notice it...but the slightest movement attracts your attention.
Out here in the nowheres of lowsy-ana we tend to just spawn camp the creek with some bait corn or take one from the back porch when we see one walk out. I ain't been on a serious hunt in near 20 years.
I like to ground stalk. I'll usually wear realtree extra green camo pants and jacket with a OD green backpack with water and such it in. One day I saw some tall Reed grass growing at the beginning of the trail I was taking that day. I cut some off and weaved it into the molle webbing of my backpack so it was long enough to go a couple inches over my head. And has some hanging off the sides to break up my shoulders. I was changing up positions at noon when I know deer aren't out and there usually seeking water or cover before 3pm when it gets cooler (or so I thought). I looked up and locked eyes with a doe about 75 yards away, on the other side of a cotton field. I started my stalk, grass growing faster then I was moving until I was about 50 yards away. There was cover between us by the cotton plants so I slowly got into a croutch and started to creep forward a yard or two every minute until I was 15 yards from a corner I could get a line of sight to her and make sure she didn't have young. I got to my belly and unbuckled my pack without making a noise almost as if I didnt exist. I crawled 10 yards to where I was feet from the corner and my knee cracked....I heard her haul ass into the tree line before I could breath. I just waited at the corner just barely able to see through the cotton plants incase she came back (I've learned they're curious animals and they will investigate what spooked them if you dont move). I didnt want to take a shot from where I first saw her because I wasnt positive I could make a steady shot since it was cold and my heart rate was elevated from the hike and I dont use shooting sticks. I'll pack make shift shooting sticks and keep cutting reed grass from now on though, and hopefully my 23 year old knees wont act like they have rice crispies in them next time lol.
Reece Phillips sorry I’m late but can you tell me where you find the pants and jacket? Awesome stalking story. Sorry you didn’t get the shot off though.
When I was 12 hunting a natural blind on a wind row I was dressed in Hunter orange from head to toe sitting on a lounge chair. The back of the natural blind was completely exposed as behind me was super thick briar and in front was a harvested corn field that the deer walked next to for cover as they moved from woods to woods. I was just sitting there with just a doe tag left towards the end of season early in the morning. The wind was blowing in my face. A doe out of no where jumps from behind me over my left shoulder. As I went to raise my shotgun another jumped over my shoulder. As I decided to take the second doe I had to wait for her to turn a little for a clean shot. Seconds later a nice buck jumped over my shoulder. I got the Doe. The moral of the story is that I was dressed in bright orange up wind. My stepfather witnessed the ordeal from another windrow across the field. In the truck on the weight station he said that they have to be blind as a bat and dumb as hell. We came to the conclusion that they are just overly jumpy. My first deer I got when I was 11. Last day of shotgun season and hunting alone as my stepfather had filled both his tags. The sun was getting ready to set and I had seen my parents return from town. I was disheartened by being skunked two seasons straight. I unloaded my 870 and lowered it down, exited the tree stand, and started down the field next to the woods towards the house. At the end of the woods I looked left into a very small clearing no more than 25 yards from me was a deer popped its head up and we went into a starring contest. I froze, and waited for her to continue to graze so I could load a shell. It took a few minutes of moving slow and pausing, but I got her. 25 yards, no cover, bright orange...The best advice I can give is...scout, scout, and scout. Don't waste money on camo and scents as they are blind and stupid but overly cautious, they will white flag you if you move quickly.
Legal deer hunting is a kind of blessing. It's the evidence that natural ecosystem is well preserved. Most the other countries prohibited any kind of hunting.
Deer see green ? I have turned on my regular flashlight and the deer freeze or run.. when I've turned on my red or green flashlights, the deer could not see it, in fact they tried to slowly slip away as if I couldn't see them..
I don't worry about them seeing me, I've gotten by with so much sitting on the ground and at times I didn't have the money to buy all the high dollar camouflage, what I fear more than anything is there nose, if I can fool that and I have foliage behind me and it didn't have to be close, deer are very good at seeing movement, I hunted brush in south Carolina because there was no tree's big enough to put a stand on. So you hunt on the ground and the wind is your best friend or your enemy. So studying food sources and learning when certain crops of acorns, foliage, fruits, berries and knowing what they eat and when, then comes bedding area's and once you have all this information and learn how to use it to your advantage you'll become a better hunter and take more mature bucks time and time again.
Last year's deer I took while stalking out to my stand. He moved, I heard him and froze on my tracks. When he stopped and looked away from me, I set the hammer and took the shot. So, yeah, there's something to be said in favor of still hunting.
I spooked a doe out of it's bed once. I didn't realize how close I was because I was behind a short pine tree. As soon as I walked around a doe popped out and ran to my right to get a better view of me. Unfortunately I did not have my bow and sidearm so I could shoot it. I walked another 25 yrds and found several fresh bedding areas. Between a low land and a couple of ridge lines.
Their sense of smell and hearing is pretty good to. Also, movement will get you busted quicker than anything. They passed a law here in Virginia that makes it illegal to use any attractant that has any type of deer hormone in it, like doe in heat or doe in estrus. I think it's time we put a republican in the Gov's office.
That Murder Inc. I'm not too sure if Virginia passed the law for the same reason but in ontario you can not use attractants that have bodily fluids of deer, they must be artificial. Apparently to help stop the potential spread of diseases
The companies that make the attractants raise their own deer and have strict immunization standards , so there's no chance of any disease being spread.
Ken Quesenberry it's also very easy to make your own with deer already harvested so they just banned them in general in ontario, at least that's what the 2017 regulations say
Lol, right. I can see the attractant enforcement officers checking for attractants now....."yep, it's turning blue". All this time I thought it was the bureaucrats imposing their uninformed logic on the public.
After your deer is down and has been dead for a while, ever notice the deep blue-green eye? That’s the blue-green rods/cones he mentioned, reflecting light back like when your eye doctor looks at your retina.
They have two retinas, one interprets images, and the other intensifies light. They are born with the ability to know a predator for instance, predators have two eyes facing the front, like humans, wolf's bears owls hawks. Grazing animals have eyes off to the side. Like cows, deer, horses act. They also know a meat eater because of the gases that escape through pores in the skin during digestion. This information is factual, not opinion. That's how they survive. That is the science of what your trying to describe in the title of you video.
"Still hunting" are hunts I save for mornings where the leaves are wet from day or night before even then it's still pretty difficult but like everything else the more ya do it the better you get and the more you learn good video though I subscribed
Ive walked across a field many times....in a direct straight line to the deer.......not moving any part of the upper body. Only moving the legs. Since your legs are lower in grass or anything else deer never see your legs move. After all........your approaching head on. I often can get within 50 yards of a deer. But the main thing is.........keep the upper body motionless ! Like a can with legs under it. It works !
Hollow Point I respect that. I used to hunt on the ground but back problems have made sittin on the ground almost impossible so I switched to stands. I've had a few old does look up and spot me.
One very simple fact that this fella and you commenters overlook. Is the natural order of things in the woods. When you walk through the woods what happens, birds fly up, squirrels run up trees, deer jump up. Up is a sign of alarm in the woods. Down is a sign of calm. Deer have great peripheral vision, if in their periphery they see something go up it draws their attention to that spot. Things going down keeps them calm. When I sit in the stand I keep my weapon pointed up. Then draw down on a deer.
hey guys I'm a new subscriber to ur channel I saw the episode about shooting coyotes or not and on our property I take em out Avery chance I get cuz we know we have too many coyotes and it effects our deer herd however when we notice the coyote population is lower than normal we stop shooting them so our wildlife management stays on a good predators to prey ratio and if I'm hunting on new property or any where else I wld get permission to take coyotes before shooting them thanks and keep the awesome and helpful shows coming we learn every time we watch the show
Blaze Gulisack Good point Blaze, I didnt think of tree stands. My brain goes straight to the knuckle heads in Texas where I grew up who would feed em all year, go sit in a stand/blind, drink shitty beer and then blast a deer with no less than a 300 win mag cause apparently white tail are know for being tough to kill, THEN they would gloat around town like they were the great white hunter. Pathetic. Tree stand hunting I can appreciate a lot more, picking the tree, the right side of the tree for petes sake, reading the land and how the animals might move in etc.
The Eastern front im glad im not the only one who finds that shit ridiculous. Dudes buy most expensive camo known to man and then sit in a blind. Oh and you gotta wear camo everday (even your wedding) so people know you hunt, and slap tons of hunting decals all over your truck lol
J H im from central PA and we are overrun by these idiots. Grice gun shop is one of the biggest gun shops in the east and their busiest day of the year is the day before gun season. People literally buying guns off the shelf and taking them out the next day without sighting it in or practicing. And wal mart is packed with people buying their license the day before, cant forget new camo and blaze orange, and face paint so they can look like the boogey man
Zachariah L walk on the ball of your foot. Only shift your weight to your front foot when you're sure you aren't standing on sticks or rocks. Even when doing this its really hard to be quiet on dead foliage
Same here in NH. I always "love" watching dudes try and still hunt pass my stand. They almost always are terrible at it. But every once and a while they drive a few deer to me earlier than I expected them.
As one of my sons says "Put the sneak on them" lol. 3 of my sons are bow hunters here in Oregon and one of them is a F class rifle shooter as well. My youngest is USMC with no time off to hunt deer. Great information about venison vision, or (VV) for short lol. Thanks.
I do a lot of running. once while running in the forest I turned to run through some cedar trees. soon after I entered those trees I collided with a deer. it's true. that deer jumped so high it practically vanished in the sky. never saw it again.
Grew up being taught how to hunt without stands or blinds. I cant tell you how many times we have looked eye to eye. Hunting this way has made my immediate reaction to freeze no matter what position I am in.
Situating myself for the shot, raising my rifle or bow. When that neck moves I freeze until the deer goes back to whatever it was doing. I'm constantly looking for the next thing that will obstruct the deer's vision and I will make my largest moves quickly. If there's nothing between them and me well I think I actually move slower than the DMV in that case. Lol
I now enjoy trying to get away with it under multiple sets of eyes in the area because 1 or 2 just isn't usually a challenge anymore.
Patience, exstreamly subtle movements, prior preparation to eliminate unexpected noises and being more alert than the deer.
The closest I have been to a doe was about 3 and a half feet. I was sitting on the outside edge of a downed tree top. She walked right to me and passed beside me. She didn't have the slightest clue I was there. I carry a bowie knife on the hunt and if I would have had it in my hand I could have reached out and touched her with the tip I believe. My eyeballs are the only thing I felt safe enough to move at that distance though. I will never forget that day. If she knew what she had done I bet she wouldn't have ether. Lol.
Anyway, good luck and good hunting.
My right ear learned a lot.
Sam Deluxe what ur head phones break
@@miriammiller5293 huh. it's fine now.
I’m confizules
Your wife's jaw has learned alot from me!! Tell her i said thanks
Left ear
Just drive down a country road at 2am,guranteed a ten pointer will run right smack into your truck
xD good one!
If it’s not a public road and you are about 200 feet away from a occupied building you can kill hm lol
Road hunting is for pussies
That’s not tru
Can’t argue with that logic...
80% of deer hunting is being in the right place at the right time
80% of deer hunting is setting up the right place and the right time period. If you have your own land you set your own stands you set your own feeder you have plots you have cameras,you know exactly where those deers are going to be because that's where you want them to be because that's where you feed them.
you know exactly what time they're coming in and out because you position cameras you MAKE the right place and you make the right time sure every time you go out there and sit your stand is that big one going to come out that you've been waiting for that you seen on your camera? no, but he will come there eventually or was he there but seen or smelled you before you ever had a chance at him? Did you not do your part ? If you do everything right you can get them there it's not a sure thing but it's definitely not right place right time, you first have to have deer in your area then you have to get them on to your fields then you have to do your part as a hunter to be able to harvest that dear
@@liamaaronduran baiting deer isn't hunting.🤣
@@liamaaronduran most deer hunters can't track a deer. If ya cant track it, i dont have respect for that hunter. I give more respect to someone who can track and follow a deer
Jeremiah Fyan some of you folks need to realize tracking and stalking deer isn’t possible in every part of the world. For one, it’s illegal in a lot of places. Still hunt only here. Too many idiots out there, to be waltzing through the woods. And thickets where you can’t see 5 yards in front of you and have to jack up a tree at least 30 feet just to be above all the under growth.
Loggers just strip cut my area and now I can finally scout tracks and see where the deer are actually traveling. Turns out, the deer are in my area, they were just traveling through a thicket 150-200 yards on the other side of a bottom.
Hopefully I’ll catch a big buck slipping in a couple weeks.
@low7782 Not really. Sounds like a lot of ignorant "luck" hunters here. Boils down to lazy hunters...
Stay still. Stay quiet. Stay upwind. Unbeatable combo
He did not tell how a deers vision actually works . He described how to camo yourself and use scent spray.
That really threw me for a loop, too.
"The more you understand about how a deer's vision works..."
5 seconds later:
"Okay, now that we understand how a deer's vision works..."
In my youth, I was one heck of a still hunter. I'm a traditional archer so I always had to be within 40 yards, preferably far closer. I've shot deer as close as twenty feet away by stalking them. Lots of fun. Now that I'm over 40 I prefer a blind in front of a food plot. Way less work.
For the majority of my life, I hunted from the ground still hunting/stalking. Now old age and health problems prevent me from doing it. Although I still hunt from the ground, I do it in a deer blind. I read an article many years ago that actually got me into the still hunting/stalking. It was called "The Curtain of Vision". Simply put, in the woods, all animals can see just so far and then it's like a curtain has been drawn and they cannot see beyond that point. Since deer cannot see behind them, if you jump one in the woods, it often will run straight away until just before it reaches it's curtain of vision and then it will either circle right or left so it can see you and what you are doing. Often, once they do, they will stop before they slip off into invisibility. So, while walking, I never cared if I was seen or not. I just slipped through the woods until the deer appeared (often flagging me in the process), stayed perfectly still, and then bring my binoculars up and watched for it to make that circle and stop. For my first 50 yrs. of hunting, I never stuck out. I always killed at least one and usually 2 deer a year and at least 75% of them were killed using the method described above. BTW, my hunting areas were Southwest Arkansas and Northwest Georgia.
I haven’t researched this but it sounds highly probable. You did a pretty awesome job at painting the picture of the deers eyesight works!
I got 2 this season still hunting, sitting down. One with crossbow and the other with .308. Sat perfectly still until they looked the other way. Got both on the move, right through the heart. Both bled out within 50 yards. Good video. Hold still!
Yeah sit still dont be stomping around
#1 Smell , make the wind work for you , #2 take away your silhouette with a background , #3 be still using slow motions to look for signs or approach , # 4 color camouflage suited for the area and the season ! With this I have hunted on the ground and had deer come within feet of me , it’s a thrill just in itself !
I agree with everything you have said except for the wind. I have hunted for 20 years and never once checked the wind. I kill deer ever year. Deer still mine no matter the weather in my experience
Very true about your silhouette from a tree stand. I hunted for years from a store-bought tree stand without any camouflage and wondered why some years were a bust. A few years ago, I went with my wife to check my cameras and lay out some bait apples. While I was swapping the cards in the cameras, my wife sat in my tree stand (probably thinking “what the hell does he see in this?”. I could see her silhouette starkly contrasted with the clear blue sky. I might as well been hunting with a neon sign saying “Warning! Hunter here!”.
Using my old Army training (the five Ss of camouflage, Shape, Shine, Silhouette, Shadow and Sound), I purchased a cam net from a surplus store and draped it behind and around the seat and shooting bar. I couldn’t believe the difference. I get my deer every season now. All the money we spend on high tech gadgets, and my fix was a simple $30 surplus camo net. It took care of my shape, silhouette and shadow, shine and sound were already taken care of.
I still hunt on the ground with a bow and let me tell you, hunting from a tree is no where near as exciting. The thrill of a herd of deer moving towards you on the ground is unexplainable.
Still hunting is my favorite method.
Yep same
Me and my mom and dad sit on the ground and find our spot
Easier to adjust to the deer when you don’t have a stand to move
@@rsenl7270 not for bows tbh
Rifle, muzzleloader, and shotgun are amazing for still hunting
@@hiTCAM00 Yeah it is a lot easier with a rifle and effective too. If you're bow hunting I've found that you have to know how they move through an area to be able to move in a way that you'll be able to get a shot at them with a bow.
Still hunting is hunting, tree stand hunting is shooting.
At least they put the ad at the end. I have given up on watching hunting shows...10 minutes of hunting and 20 minutes of advertising. Not worth it.
I've got a acorn spot where the camera picked up two does feeding at 1:30 in the afternoon, and another day 8 in the morning, problem is they show up on the cam about twice a week. My question is do they alternate between different feeding areas everyday or were they still feeding in that spot but just out of sight of the camera? And why the heck were they feeding that early in the afternoon?it's public land with quite a bit of human traffic. Weird.
chances are they are not bedding in that area and they may be different does than the last time. Find the thick brush and food source (combined in one area) and you may be close to the bedding areas.
thx for the tip!
where I live we have several fields that are farmed every year and usually a mix of corn and alfalfa, which deer love. And in the winter the alfalfa stays green and they eat that. I'm pretty sure they are bedding down in the woods here because there are some thickets in there, but I do not own much of the wooded property so I don't go in very far I hunt the fields edge. Btw; if you have a trail camera, you need to secure it either in a box or at least bolt it to a tree or fence post. I had my camera stolen 2 weeks ago, it was on my property, at the fields edge, no one should have been there, but someone got it anyways. That thing may disappear on you eventually, especially if its on public land or if there are houses near by like in my situation.
Theft is not too bad in my area, I use a cable and lock on my camera, besides it's a cheap one i bought online.
I forget the name of the new cameras that send a duplicate copy of your pictures to a remote box 70' or so away. Literally, you can hide the box anywhere and the thief won't find it. With a little luck you captured him on camera and he will see the antenna and leave your shit alone. The other thing to do is have abhidden camera pointing at your visible game camera and wallla jail time.
Can deer sense fear and other emotions from you? When I'm being sneaky and actually looking for deer, I can't find them. But when I'm just walking casually through a field or forest, I end up walking right up on them. It's weird.
Deer are conditioned to avoid predators. When you are "sneaky" you are acting like a predator. When you are "just walking casually" you are not acting like a predator. Deer notice the difference.
@@charlessample5044 yess. been saying that for years. don’t walk silently walk normally and you’ll see far mroe deer
As much as I try to learn about Whitetails, mostly geared toward hunting. A magnificent doe is bedding in my back yard, she comes abt 11:30pm (I hear a thud as she jumps the fence) and leaves for the day 9:30am.I see her bedding and eating throughout the night & bedding in the morning. So graceful I get an incredible feeling of peace watching her. We're in an urban area with a large park abt 1/2 mile behind my house. My backyard all fenced, front facing a busy road. She goes out of her way to get here it seems. It's July, I read they leave their fawns on forest floor for hours. Hard for me to determine her age, looks young, big and healthy, her coat is solid, even, not a mark on it. I've seen her drink from the bird bath and she eats a lots of my plants & grazes but it's worth giving her a hand in survival. How can I help her in winter? What can I leave outside for her? We get a ton of snow. Also she looks in the Windows a lot and stands facing them sometimes. She's turned her head at me and I see her big eye and then she turns head back. I just walk backward away from.the window. So far she hasn't bolted and seems relatively unafraid in the yard. Is this what you call an urban deer? I wonder about her.
I always scouted for crossings in the summer... then set up on the crossing against a tree when the season hit... I also like to hike up a mountain in the dark, and then slow walk a trail... a few steps and then listen for a while... hear some leaves and twigs breaking then don't move and wait for them to step out...takes patience.
Voice is cut out until @3:38, on pc, just a heads up
I like it when a small doe or deer comes up and hangs out cause they alert me of other deer coming toward the same area.
I have taken several deer in blue jeans and dark shirt. I do use camouflage clothing but I know without a doubt breaking up my silhouette is by far more important. I ground hunt only, I tuck myself back into cover as low as possible. Another tip is don't sit right at the edge of a field when hunting a field. Set yourself a few yards back into the darkness and make sure you don't have light behind you exposing your silhouette. Remember darkness is your friend when hunting.
J D I had 4 different mature bucks 30 yards away from me in the same thing blue jeans and a dark green sweatshirt
J D knock it off... they're trying to sell stuff here...
lol...
my grandpaw killed hundreds of deer wearing red flannel shirts and chain smoking
pfcjking1 same 😂
+pfcjking1 the day I see a chain smoking deer.....
How does a deer put on a red flannel shirt ? Also how does he get cigarettes and light them?
If the damn deer has such great vision how the hell can they not miss a damn truck on the highway!
I agree
Oh it sees it....its just too dumb to figure out what the hell its looking at.
Very first ever Brain Lock
Like the gentleman in the video said, deer see in 2D right? If that's true, then maybe they get confused because vehicles don't move. They do obviously but maybe they see a car and you know you can't see the wheels or "legs" so maybe they get confused by that? I don't know, that's my hypothesis and I'm sticking to it!
lack of depth perception, and can't see any actual movement like a predator's legs moving
I am a animal biologist and one of my college professors did research on deer’s eyes and the oils in the retina. Their conclusion was deer see black, white, blues and yellows. Also when deer can smell anywhere from 5,000 to 10,000 time better than us, it opens a whole different world we have no idea how predict what cover scents will work and won’t or how effective they really are to us for hunting. If it is anything like dogs, they smell in layers where they smell each ingredient separately but not like us all mixed together.
I can agree iv killed several deer with my hair smelling like good shampoo, i have got were I hunt with the wind worry less about scent covers and camo. Not putting cover sents, or camo down, Iv just found out more so than not that face to the wind, be still and be quite works so that's what I do. Shrugs.
I also think that deer are pretty smart, I always see a lot of deer before hunting season but as soon as I get on that stand on the first day of modern gun season there’s nothing.
It's like they know!!!
But you’ll see every squirrel in the woods
@@Lips1410 because they will smell you when the wind is in there favor ,and they will see you long before you see them ,plus never enter your hunting site the same way.
@@martygibson1480 the whole smell stuff is BS
They know man, they are smart asf
Here in the west the Mule deer have incredible hearing with those big ears. Yes vision is amazing too.
There sixth sense is insane as well. Being in tune with everything around them, by being out in the woods all the time.
Smoke another doob pimpin
Funny seeing all these comments how to wall quietly deer can tell how a human walks it's not about being quiet it's how you walk think how loud squirrel are it's the distinct sound they are use to. The best way to get in the woods is to imitate a squirrel meaning take a few steps with the tip of your foot move leafs around also a huge tip is learn how to make that squirrel bark sound with your mouth me and my dad do this walk up on deer all the time evening when they spool make that sound doesn't effect them. Also scent control and wind direction is key deer will smell you and be gone you won't even know it. Seen it this year I was set up on the edge of a field before my dad got out he was walking to a stand and the wind shifted a nice buck instantly got up and moved off that made me think how many times has that happend before
Smart thank you!
Hunter orange is mandatory here, but I've never had a problem with deer seeing me. I was sitting on the edge of a field once and could hear a deer approaching from behind. It was getting closer and closer, so close in fact that I decided it must be a squirrel or grouse. It got really, REALLY close, and then the noise stopped. For a few minutes I sat perfectly still and could hear nothing else. I very slowly turned my head and almost jumped out of my own skin - there was a doe standing right behind me. I quite literally could have kissed her full on the lips had I wanted to. She jumped, I jumped, she screwed off, no shots fired. Hell, had I wanted to shoot I would have had to push her away to get the gun up
One time at band camp......
Lol , great story :D
Had the same thing happen except I peed a little
I have had deer walk up to me less than 12 yards away, I'm climbing down from a treestand they stand and just look at me,i stay still as long as possible, and they just look at me.one will snort at me ,they all walk away.is amazing, they know exactly when I can't see my sights
Just had this happen! I even walked towards it thought! Then it walked towards me. Got about 8-10ft away
Granted I had a very bright headlamp on. Was looking for my cat..who decided to try to pounce the deer after it stared at me for a good 2 minutes
Thank you so much-there's some lovely footage of deer and a lot of great advice to reflect on! 👍
This is so cool... I'm a naturalist, not a hunter, but these tactics work just as well for observing deer!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
How do you feel about scented granules in a scrape site
I’ve been still hunting or ground hunting for 30 years with a muzzle loader and have rarely not come home with a deer, I hunt with a group of guys who all use tree stands and I’ve shot just as many deer as them and don’t find myself getting board to tears sitting for hours on a 2x2 seat. I admit that I’ve not gotten a few deer because they’ve seen me before I’ve see them (always a challenge) but have loved every minute of it!
Never worn camouflage. It doesn't matter and just looks daft imo. Stay down wind and move slowly, freeze when they look at you. I've had them 30 feet away and look straight at me standing in the open. They will go back to feeding if you're still.
Thee is also a deer's ability to smell not to mention needing to take into consideration how we will see a deer have it's head to the ground and then all of a sudden look up in the opposite direction toward the edge of the woods that's at least a hundred yards away and not long after, another deer walks out and so hearing is more likely what it is until there is deeper research on the actual specifics for what a deer's vision is and isn't capable of
I agree with the comment below .....stillhunting is actually hunting!😁 And after four decades of hunting , I see no advantage in camo for hunting mammals.(Except those that shoot back!)
5:32 min what type of deer are those im looking for those antler ..how old is that deer.
What effect does blaze have? I live in minnesota where the upper 50%+ has to be covered in blaze (chest, arms, head in fair weather. In snow most have a full blaze suite)
They do not see the blaze-orange like we do. They see more as a block of uninterrupted tone, which makes natural camo in your stand even more important. Also, it is key to make sure you do as much as possible to eliminate ultra-violet (UV enhancers in detergent, etc) by using after market treatments if needed. Best, Daniel Schmidt
I don't know how deer eyes vs. horse eyes, but I know blaze orange scares the bah geese's out of my wife's horse. we've had him for 23 of his 28 year's and he knows what I look like, my scent, my voice and how I walk and move. I can walk up to him in his pasture wearing any street clothes and he pays me no attention. as soon as I put on blaze orange I cant get near him. he will snort and run away.
Not as good as turkey eyes they can see you blink from 3 miles away
True!
Shit i walk right up to the wild turkeys in my yard. 20 feet away.
Yet they wont get outta the damn road when Im driving.
You ain't wrong there man!!
Hillary Eisenbarth hell yes. In PA we have to wear orange during the fall season. Yeah, it goes just like you imagine it would. You pretty much have to ambush them from behind a huge ass tree
Deer also memorize every little detail of their habitat. When deer move around in alert mode they can spot a candy wrapper at 100 yards or better. I have also seen deer just walk right into a new campsite completely unaware when there was no hunting pressure. My wife and I had a doe lead a 8 point buck into our camp within 10 yards. We had a campfire, a 10 man tent, camp chairs and my truck there. It was the opening day of deer season and my wife shot both while sitting in her camp chair. Deer without hunting pressure will walk right into your lap. But once hunting pressure exist they become very alert to everything.
Hunting off the ground I always lay a log\stick at an angle from the ground to the tree I'm against. Not sure why, but it works great and always breaks you up.
now when do you start using scents? just the day you go out or should you prep the spot a week in advance?
Great question. I use scents (scrape drippers) mainly from August on, but mock scrapes can provide action in the off-season as well if you are looking to get trail camera photos.
A whitetailed deer is a blind dog, compared to an elk. You want challenge that often requires 400-yard (or longer shots), take up trophy elk hunting...it will REALLY make you re-think how 'attentive' deer are, and put it in a far more useful perspective.
The most fun I ever had deer hunting was sneaking up in fresh quiet snow on two does. I wasn’t interested in taking them only in learning what I could get away with. They let me load my rifle, take a couple photos text those photos, walk back to my gear and then come back to them at about 75 yards a second time. All from downwind over about 30 minutes starting in relative darkness into broad daylight. What a riot. It was as though they couldn’t SEE me. Like it didn’t register in their brain.
What digital pattern camo were u wearing ?
That was the Sitka camo from a few years ago.
Humans hear with two ears not one! I guess they haven't seen that video yet.
I think that deer have photographic memory and that they are constantly scanning and making sure everything is basically the same as it was the last time they came through. When something is different it causes the to change their paths, weather its the lingering smell if another animal, if anything is disturbed or broken, etc. Their hearing is amazing many of times when another dear enters a field its because they kind of know certain deer and their movements and times of exit and entry. We know this of dear and they know it of each other, especially when they've been following their routines unbothered by human interference and predators.
Stephen Klick yup. Few years ago I was climbing my stand and a small cedar branch broke off and fell down onto the trail. I thought I should get down and move it. Half hour later the big guy I was after came out of the swamp and was making his way up the trail about 40 yds away he stopped and stared straight at that branch. Turned around calmly left.
Cupillac Yup, thats how it goes. Thanks for responding.
he smelled the scent
When a deer jerks their head up from the ground and turns it quickly, it is not because they saw something, as you said. They jerk their head up and turn it toward a sound or a scent. Then, they see something; in my experience.
I imagine deer have incredibly good hearing. They can hear me when I go to my window and peak through the blinds to look at them. Crazy...
Hey goofy bitch they are scared because they can see it move !!
Of course they have incredibly good hearing. That's not what this video was about.
Deer in low-"pressure" areas are a completely different animal from those on alert. A low-p deer who has never seen a human, in the deep woods, will walk under your stand, and chill there, a high-p deer in semi-suburban fields/woods will scent you from way off, no matter the wind direction, and may still approach but is more likely to eventually see something out of place and look through you in your $25 ebay ghillie suit and if you are perfectly still, may go back to eating or begin exiting slowly, or blow out of there fast (Ideally, close one eye before she spots you, and squint out of the other (makes a difference sometimes) don't move, ever, before or after you see deer around you, they can see a wide angle, but usually if they are eating, you can move snail slow to draw or position). How they respond to the split second of human scent that blew the wrong way, or to seeing a blind, ghillie suit or glint off something depends on their age... an old doe gets as cagey as mature bucks, people saying "deer" do this and "deer" do that, what age and sex deer, and how much and what kind of pressure are present in an area? Scents do work, maybe not how you wished, estrous draws doe and young buck following those doe which are following your pee scent in pre-rut. Deer on high alert in pressure areas do smell your tracks NO MATTER if you have new boots aged in a shed with no scents for 2 years, sprayed with $40 scent spray and ozoned with a machine, they do smell the tracks, or see the footprints or something, I've watched them follow me, it's nuts. Low pressure deer must be less tuned in to the scent they have capability, but not interest in pursuing. As far as estrous scent, the young buck will slowly come up to the does you've attracted to your scents, they will run at the doe and effectively chase the doe away, trying to find the non-existent one with the estrous scent to breed, the doe, they will scatter. In rut you may lure a mature buck, but a grunt tube, sometimes antler rattling, will also work at times. If you use scent, they want to see her before coming out of cover, pressured deer, they will stand, invisible to you, for 30 minutes plus, no movement, out of sight range, and very capable of seeing any movement from you, especially when they've picked your scent up on an errant breeze wafting to them once for a single second, boom, they are on to you, now they stare and try to see, what is that stenchy thing? It's quite a game. You can hunt pressured deer from the ground, but you have to blend.
Wear different types of camo helps to break up your image such as realtree pants , mossyoak jacket , and woodland hat . Your not doing a fashion show ,your trying to breakup your silhouette . So mix it up !
I have had deer come with in 30 yards from me. Was sitting on the ground no blind and the sucker still saw me. It looked directly at me for about 2 minutes trying to figure out what I was. It didn't last forever because she had a buck chasing her. What a show that was.
If you can get around a deer noise it’s eyes are not that great but they can and will spot the smallest movement so stay still good luck
he didn't mention smell... which is a way more powerful tool then vision....
Ralph ditore yep..gotta beat that nose..i hunt near a creek and the flowing water seems to help cover my scent a little bit
Ralph ditore he did mention scent?
This video is about the deers eye sight.
Didn't mention scent much because the video is about eye sight.
The last part is about scent..did you guys watch the video?
sight is still way more important, staying hidden from the deer. one can easily overcome their scent-smelling, simply by always keeping the wind in your face. personally, I have never found scent to be an issue. don't use any scent-control products and often eat timmeh's on the way to the bush. hasn't prevented me from getting deer. but still-hunting is awesome, move 10 yards or so, stand behind a tree for 15 minutes or so, glassing everywhere in front of you, then pick a tree and move slowly to it, and repeat and repeat. works extremely well.
Good video. I find it interesting that hunters wear all that camouflage and then cover the camouflage with blaze orange.
They are required by law.
Deer cannot see orange
Anyone have tips for placing the magic shot? I want to make sure I make a clean shot, should I go for a headshot a chest cavity shot or a spine shot?
Hi Gxus, here is one of the many videos we did on shot placement. Hope this helps you out. Best, Dan th-cam.com/video/Lldd-mXTho8/w-d-xo.html
Spine shot always drops them imediately...lights out! Depends on how much time you have to shoot and what position the deer presents itself to you.
2:45 I have the same gun it’s a mossberg patriot I have a 270 do you guys have it
I have the same and love it!
what about deer vision while still hunting from the ground? whole different experience than trees and falling and getting hurt
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I ain't picky I just wanna get my first deer, it's tough hunting public land here in the northeast, I've hunted the entire bow season without even seeing a deer, at this point I'll shoot anything brown with four legs :D but it won't matter if I'm holding a rocket launcher if I can't even see a deer, it's beyond frustrating.
Thanks for watching! Best, Dan Schmidt
If It’s Brown It’s Down
This year it’s hard to see a deer I hunt nearly every day
And only seen 3 deer.
There’s so many acorns this year it’s gonna be
Hard this year to kill a deer.
Best way to see a deer
Is find there bedding area
There you should see something
Don't pride yourself with just killing anything brown, hunting is an art that goes back literally millions of years of human history. Hunt for the thrill, but also hunt to get the meat and even fur resource and appreciate what the animal has given you. It's only way to live sustainable with nature so that future generations have this valuable resource. There, I'll get off my soapbox now :P
Nutjob Joe hey its alright youll get one eventually. I hunted the entire bow season and only seen 2 deer and i would of shot them if they werent running
Hang in there man. It gets frustrating but keep getting out there.
What I found is, it doesn't matter what color, if it's different from what they are used to, it gets their attention . To Hunt, a verb suggests movement. I stop only to rest a few minutes,then the sneak is on again, blend with the environment, more very slow and take the challenge of meeting them on their terms
While still hunting I did some experimenting, especially with small does. Sitting on a small stool in front of a big tree I had a few small does come right up to within 5 feet of me. I would put my hands in front of me and wave at them and they would just look at me but as soon as I moved my hand outside the outline of the tree they were gone. All I was wearing was blue jeans and a shirt, nothing camo.
This was bow hunting.
I see a lot of comment about orange and I think folks are missing the point. We are taught the colors of the rainbow is a guy named Roy G Biv. That is what we see. There are colors past I and V (Indigo, Violet)-like ultraviolet and other crap we cant see. Our spectrum is Roy G Biv. A deer's starts around Green and goes past ultraviolet. This is why orange is ok to wear.
Can I see the actual interview with the deer? I’d like to here (hear) it in his own words.
hear not here. lol
@@ilovenythismuchilovenewyor5801 lol you are of course correct. I annotated the original post.
@@TheRazmotaz lol 🤣
I just sit in my barn on the farm which is right next to where they cross through my land sets me up perfectly to get one, deer move in a schedule just know where they usually are and at what time and you can get them no problem.
3:03 How to be invisible?? But He’s wearing a neon orange vest...I’m confused !! 🤷🏻♂️
Ungulates can't see this spectrum
Deer don’t see orange
Thanks for all the info. any chance to talk with you on the phone ? not to good on this thing.
Thanks for watching! We will keep bringing you more of these videos every week.
Camo and everything else is great. But the key is to be still, don't move. Sitting on a walk way in bright yellow shirt with black pants on a blue plastic chair I had a deer walk 4 feet in front of me. Just learn to be still.
...blue range...green range...yellow range....? hey..that covers basically the whole range of the color palette.... Blues at the UV range, Yellow at the IR end, and Green in the middle...green comprises about 60% of what we two-hoofed animals see....if a grouse remains motionless, you won't notice it...but the slightest movement attracts your attention.
Feldwebel Wolfenstool ROYGBIV - red and orange are beyond yellow; IR lower than red.
Lou: That is exactly what was said (green is in the middle). hence 60% of vision.
Out here in the nowheres of lowsy-ana we tend to just spawn camp the creek with some bait corn or take one from the back porch when we see one walk out. I ain't been on a serious hunt in near 20 years.
I like to ground stalk. I'll usually wear realtree extra green camo pants and jacket with a OD green backpack with water and such it in. One day I saw some tall Reed grass growing at the beginning of the trail I was taking that day. I cut some off and weaved it into the molle webbing of my backpack so it was long enough to go a couple inches over my head. And has some hanging off the sides to break up my shoulders. I was changing up positions at noon when I know deer aren't out and there usually seeking water or cover before 3pm when it gets cooler (or so I thought). I looked up and locked eyes with a doe about 75 yards away, on the other side of a cotton field. I started my stalk, grass growing faster then I was moving until I was about 50 yards away. There was cover between us by the cotton plants so I slowly got into a croutch and started to creep forward a yard or two every minute until I was 15 yards from a corner I could get a line of sight to her and make sure she didn't have young. I got to my belly and unbuckled my pack without making a noise almost as if I didnt exist. I crawled 10 yards to where I was feet from the corner and my knee cracked....I heard her haul ass into the tree line before I could breath. I just waited at the corner just barely able to see through the cotton plants incase she came back (I've learned they're curious animals and they will investigate what spooked them if you dont move). I didnt want to take a shot from where I first saw her because I wasnt positive I could make a steady shot since it was cold and my heart rate was elevated from the hike and I dont use shooting sticks.
I'll pack make shift shooting sticks and keep cutting reed grass from now on though, and hopefully my 23 year old knees wont act like they have rice crispies in them next time lol.
Reece Phillips sorry I’m late but can you tell me where you find the pants and jacket? Awesome stalking story. Sorry you didn’t get the shot off though.
Is that the same thing as black tail?
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
When I was 12 hunting a natural blind on a wind row I was dressed in Hunter orange from head to toe sitting on a lounge chair. The back of the natural blind was completely exposed as behind me was super thick briar and in front was a harvested corn field that the deer walked next to for cover as they moved from woods to woods. I was just sitting there with just a doe tag left towards the end of season early in the morning. The wind was blowing in my face. A doe out of no where jumps from behind me over my left shoulder. As I went to raise my shotgun another jumped over my shoulder. As I decided to take the second doe I had to wait for her to turn a little for a clean shot. Seconds later a nice buck jumped over my shoulder. I got the Doe. The moral of the story is that I was dressed in bright orange up wind. My stepfather witnessed the ordeal from another windrow across the field. In the truck on the weight station he said that they have to be blind as a bat and dumb as hell. We came to the conclusion that they are just overly jumpy. My first deer I got when I was 11. Last day of shotgun season and hunting alone as my stepfather had filled both his tags. The sun was getting ready to set and I had seen my parents return from town. I was disheartened by being skunked two seasons straight. I unloaded my 870 and lowered it down, exited the tree stand, and started down the field next to the woods towards the house. At the end of the woods I looked left into a very small clearing no more than 25 yards from me was a deer popped its head up and we went into a starring contest. I froze, and waited for her to continue to graze so I could load a shell. It took a few minutes of moving slow and pausing, but I got her. 25 yards, no cover, bright orange...The best advice I can give is...scout, scout, and scout. Don't waste money on camo and scents as they are blind and stupid but overly cautious, they will white flag you if you move quickly.
Why the heck are you hunting whitetail with a shotgun? There is shotgun season where you live......so bizarre!
Where I live its the only firearm you can use other than a muzzleloader.
I shot most of my deer with a shotgun I am now 56 years old it works well very well with slugs up to 100 yards .
In some parts of MN firearm hunters are only allowed to use slugs. Thus, the use of a shotgun instead of a rifle.
I think from hunting them the deer is mostly about sound and smell more than sight
it's all about the smell that's why I smoke weed they like it . fish like it as well or maybe I smoke to much
Legal deer hunting is a kind of blessing. It's the evidence that natural ecosystem is well preserved. Most the other countries prohibited any kind of hunting.
Deer see green ? I have turned on my regular flashlight and the deer freeze or run.. when I've turned on my red or green flashlights, the deer could not see it, in fact they tried to slowly slip away as if I couldn't see them..
I don't worry about them seeing me, I've gotten by with so much sitting on the ground and at times I didn't have the money to buy all the high dollar camouflage, what I fear more than anything is there nose, if I can fool that and I have foliage behind me and it didn't have to be close, deer are very good at seeing movement, I hunted brush in south Carolina because there was no tree's big enough to put a stand on. So you hunt on the ground and the wind is your best friend or your enemy. So studying food sources and learning when certain crops of acorns, foliage, fruits, berries and knowing what they eat and when, then comes bedding area's and once you have all this information and learn how to use it to your advantage you'll become a better hunter and take more mature bucks time and time again.
That's why I use shoot through mesh for bow and a dark blind for riffle
Last year's deer I took while stalking out to my stand. He moved, I heard him and froze on my tracks. When he stopped and looked away from me, I set the hammer and took the shot. So, yeah, there's something to be said in favor of still hunting.
I spooked a doe out of it's bed once. I didn't realize how close I was because I was behind a short pine tree. As soon as I walked around a doe popped out and ran to my right to get a better view of me. Unfortunately I did not have my bow and sidearm so I could shoot it. I walked another 25 yrds and found several fresh bedding areas. Between a low land and a couple of ridge lines.
Their sense of smell and hearing is pretty good to. Also, movement will get you busted quicker than anything.
They passed a law here in Virginia that makes it illegal to use any attractant that has any type of deer hormone in it, like doe in heat or doe in estrus. I think it's time we put a republican in the Gov's office.
Ken Quesenberry yeah their hearing is usually what gives me away. They are suspicious of every little sound
That Murder Inc. I'm not too sure if Virginia passed the law for the same reason but in ontario you can not use attractants that have bodily fluids of deer, they must be artificial. Apparently to help stop the potential spread of diseases
The companies that make the attractants raise their own deer and have strict immunization standards , so there's no chance of any disease being spread.
Ken Quesenberry it's also very easy to make your own with deer already harvested so they just banned them in general in ontario, at least that's what the 2017 regulations say
Lol, right. I can see the attractant enforcement officers checking for attractants now....."yep, it's turning blue".
All this time I thought it was the bureaucrats imposing their uninformed logic on the public.
After your deer is down and has been dead for a while, ever notice the deep blue-green eye? That’s the blue-green rods/cones he mentioned, reflecting light back like when your eye doctor looks at your retina.
They have two retinas, one interprets images, and the other intensifies light. They are born with the ability to know a predator for instance, predators have two eyes facing the front, like humans, wolf's bears owls hawks. Grazing animals have eyes off to the side. Like cows, deer, horses act. They also know a meat eater because of the gases that escape through pores in the skin during digestion. This information is factual, not opinion. That's how they survive. That is the science of what your trying to describe in the title of you video.
"Still hunting" are hunts I save for mornings where the leaves are wet from day or night before even then it's still pretty difficult but like everything else the more ya do it the better you get and the more you learn good video though I subscribed
Man, my right ear loved this video
How do they see in 2D, yet can see depth of field so well?
Eyes on the side of the head make it so they see 2d from the sides and good depth kf field from the front
Ive walked across a field many times....in a direct straight line to the deer.......not moving any part of the upper body. Only moving the legs. Since your legs are lower in grass or anything else deer never see your legs move. After all........your approaching head on. I often can get within 50 yards of a deer. But the main thing is.........keep the upper body motionless ! Like a can with legs under it. It works !
Grasshopper you must become one with the deer to hunt the deer.
I've never taken a deer in a stand, always still hunting. My grandfather taught me to give the deer as much chance to see you as you do them.
Hollow Point You have a weapon in your hand, they never have a chance
Zachariah L you're right my fault I must've skipped over that part
Hollow Point I respect that. I used to hunt on the ground but back problems have made sittin on the ground almost impossible so I switched to stands. I've had a few old does look up and spot me.
Was your grandpa skinny? Mine taught me to eat my pre-salted corn fed deer. He wasn't skinny! LMAO!
One very simple fact that this fella and you commenters overlook. Is the natural order of things in the woods. When you walk through the woods what happens, birds fly up, squirrels run up trees, deer jump up. Up is a sign of alarm in the woods. Down is a sign of calm. Deer have great peripheral vision, if in their periphery they see something go up it draws their attention to that spot. Things going down keeps them calm. When I sit in the stand I keep my weapon pointed up. Then draw down on a deer.
Movement and outline are the keys
I’ve been bow hunting here in blue jeans, and shot my first doe at 10 yards, and have had 2 others walk right under my stand while wearing them
Same
Scrape drippers are hit or miss for me.
hey guys I'm a new subscriber to ur channel I saw the episode about shooting coyotes or not and on our property I take em out Avery chance I get cuz we know we have too many coyotes and it effects our deer herd however when we notice the coyote population is lower than normal we stop shooting them so our wildlife management stays on a good predators to prey ratio and if I'm hunting on new property or any where else I wld get permission to take coyotes before shooting them thanks and keep the awesome and helpful shows coming we learn every time we watch the show
Thank you, Samantha! Best, Dan Schmidt
Samantha Welch i just started posting vids. Check them out and sub if you like. Thanks
Still hunting, also know as actually hunting.
Blaze Gulisack Good point Blaze, I didnt think of tree stands. My brain goes straight to the knuckle heads in Texas where I grew up who would feed em all year, go sit in a stand/blind, drink shitty beer and then blast a deer with no less than a 300 win mag cause apparently white tail are know for being tough to kill, THEN they would gloat around town like they were the great white hunter. Pathetic.
Tree stand hunting I can appreciate a lot more, picking the tree, the right side of the tree for petes sake, reading the land and how the animals might move in etc.
The Eastern front
The Eastern front im glad im not the only one who finds that shit ridiculous. Dudes buy most expensive camo known to man and then sit in a blind. Oh and you gotta wear camo everday (even your wedding) so people know you hunt, and slap tons of hunting decals all over your truck lol
J H im from central PA and we are overrun by these idiots. Grice gun shop is one of the biggest gun shops in the east and their busiest day of the year is the day before gun season. People literally buying guns off the shelf and taking them out the next day without sighting it in or practicing. And wal mart is packed with people buying their license the day before, cant forget new camo and blaze orange, and face paint so they can look like the boogey man
Zachariah L walk on the ball of your foot. Only shift your weight to your front foot when you're sure you aren't standing on sticks or rocks. Even when doing this its really hard to be quiet on dead foliage
If its all about breaking up the human silhouette then i would think camo pattern matters to some degree
Here in Pennsylvania, "still hunting" also requires ruining 30 other people's hunt or having your own land
Same here in NH. I always "love" watching dudes try and still hunt pass my stand. They almost always are terrible at it. But every once and a while they drive a few deer to me earlier than I expected them.
As one of my sons says "Put the sneak on them" lol. 3 of my sons are bow hunters here in Oregon and one of them is a F class rifle shooter as well. My youngest is USMC with no time off to hunt deer. Great information about venison vision, or (VV) for short lol. Thanks.
Steven Davis well, sir, your youngest is, hopefully, hunting Neanderthals . A much more interesting sport, I reckon. Here's wishing him luck!
I do a lot of running. once while running in the forest I turned to run through some cedar trees. soon after I entered those trees I collided with a deer. it's true. that deer jumped so high it practically vanished in the sky. never saw it again.
where is the sound?