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Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!! [Re: Captain Luke] #6906496 10/02/17 11:45 PM
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i killed a deer at 500 yards.

Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!! [Re: Captain Luke] #6906510 10/02/17 11:54 PM
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That hunting high fence is the same as hunting free range.

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Originally Posted By: scalebuster
That hunting high fence is the same as hunting free range.

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Just to make sure that it is done thoroughly, I go both ways.

Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!! [Re: txshotgun] #6906599 10/03/17 12:49 AM
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Originally Posted By: txshotgun
You need $324,220 of camo, scent blocks, ATVs, 40 foot stands, and a Yeti cup and cooler to kill a deer.

I believe I was wearing jeans, long-sleeved shirt, old military jacket and walmart boots when I got my first deer. Probably wearing similar for the others too.

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Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!! [Re: Captain Luke] #6906611 10/03/17 12:58 AM
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The bucks have gone nocturnal....

Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!! [Re: Captain Luke] #6906612 10/03/17 12:58 AM
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That Texas whitetails migrate


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Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!! [Re: BOBO the Clown] #6906617 10/03/17 01:01 AM
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Originally Posted By: BOBO the Clown
That Texas whitetails migrate
never heard that one before

Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!! [Re: SapperTitan] #6906633 10/03/17 01:11 AM
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Originally Posted By: SapperTitan
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That Texas whitetails migrate
never heard that one before


Yelp just ask one our resident experts


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Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!! [Re: BOBO the Clown] #6906644 10/03/17 01:16 AM
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Originally Posted By: BOBO the Clown
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That Texas whitetails migrate
never heard that one before


Yelp just ask on our resident experts
come to think about it I've never even heard WT migration mentioned on here. Must have missed those threads. Now they will move to new locations within reason of their home territory during the rut but that's not immigration.

Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!! [Re: BOBO the Clown] #6906702 10/03/17 01:47 AM
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Originally Posted By: BOBO the Clown
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That Texas whitetails migrate
never heard that one before


Yelp just ask on our resident experts


No one (on here at least) has ever said they migrate. Ever.
Many just didn't agree with your past statements that they stay put on a few acres.

Which doesn't exactly jibe with your asking permission on 10 sections (6400 acres) just to hunt one buck you saw. One can only surmise there's a difference between the real world and pushing an internet argument/agenda.


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Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!! [Re: BOBO the Clown] #6906716 10/03/17 01:56 AM
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Originally Posted By: BOBO the Clown
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That Texas whitetails migrate
never heard that one before


Yelp just ask one our resident experts


They migrate off our place every year the day before hunting season. Or so it seems. LOL


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Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!! [Re: Captain Luke] #6906723 10/03/17 02:00 AM
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I second the Panther one and also all the people in Coke County seeing mule deer

Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!! [Re: Captain Luke] #6906731 10/03/17 02:03 AM
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That every deer some have ever shot was DRT.

As soon as I hear it, I know that person is FOS.

Magic bullets, magic ammo, magic calibers, magic Annie Oakleys who place every shot on a dime, magic deer that never move. The internet is full of magic. smile


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I learned long ago you can't reason someone out of something they don't reason themselves into.


Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!! [Re: Captain Luke] #6906744 10/03/17 02:14 AM
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the farmer's truck doesn't spook the deer

Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!! [Re: Captain Luke] #6906746 10/03/17 02:15 AM
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I think some of these myths are actually fact...


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Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!! [Re: txshntr] #6906754 10/03/17 02:21 AM
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I think some of these myths are actually fact...
quite a few actually roflmao

Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!! [Re: Captain Luke] #6906756 10/03/17 02:22 AM
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Some of these I agree with while others not so much.

I have seen the Mountian lion on a couple leases. Both times were in counties that they have been killed in previously.

500 yard shot on a deer, I have done those so.... but in most cases you are correct.

Deer migrate, well one lease I had for several years during October every year deer that had been on my cameras all summer and up to the time they started showing up on a friends camera over 1.5 miles away where they would be regularly until Feb or March. Know that happened for at least 5 years straight. Migration or just changing feed sources? whatever they moved for some reason.

DRT on every shot I have trouble believing.

The bullet failed, if you never recovered the deer how do you know what happened or where the deer was actually hit.

Shoot them in the neck or head cause it is either a miss or they are dead. WRONG


lf the saying "Liar, Liar your pants on fire" were true
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Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!! [Re: Captain Luke] #6906773 10/03/17 02:31 AM
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Some of these I agree with while others not so much.

I have seen the Mountian lion on a couple leases. Both times were in counties that they have been killed in previously.

500 yard shot on a deer, I have done those so.... but in most cases you are correct.

Deer migrate, well one lease I had for several years during October every year deer that had been on my cameras all summer and up to the time they started showing up on a friends camera over 1.5 miles away where they would be regularly until Feb or March. Know that happened for at least 5 years straight. Migration or just changing feed sources? whatever they moved for some reason.

DRT on every shot I have trouble believing.

The bullet failed, if you never recovered the deer how do you know what happened or where the deer was actually hit.

Shoot them in the neck or head cause it is either a miss or they are dead. WRONG



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I have no idea whether white tailed deer in Texas migrate.....They likely range a bit, but migration seems to stretch things. However, the mule deer in Wyoming sure do migrate, because they have a big ongoing study that proved it:

http://migrationinitiative.org/

As for the farmer's truck spooking deer....it's just like everything else: Things they see every day will not spook a deer, but unusual things will. I was at the target range one year sighting in my rifle two days before deer season, and a deer started feeding behind the targets. This was a gun range with twenty people blasting away, and this deer would have been wasted if someone just missed the target. But you give one unusual noise close to them and the deer will scatter.

The myth I'm tired of is that camouflaging your blind makes a difference. Only if it's portable that you put up and move every day. For anything left in the field, camo adds nothing.


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Originally Posted By: HS2
I have no idea whether white tailed deer in Texas migrate.....They likely range a bit, but migration seems to stretch things. However, the mule deer in Wyoming sure do migrate, because they have a big ongoing study that proved it:

http://migrationinitiative.org/

As for the farmer's truck spooking deer....it's just like everything else: Things they see every day will not spook a deer, but unusual things will. I was at the target range one year sighting in my rifle two days before deer season, and a deer started feeding behind the targets. This was a gun range with twenty people blasting away, and this deer would have been wasted if someone just missed the target. But you give one unusual noise close to them and the deer will scatter.

The myth I'm tired of is that camouflaging your blind makes a difference. Only if it's portable that you put up and move every day. For anything left in the field, camo adds nothing.
Trying to blend/camo your blind is to help prevent other people mostly meth heads from seeing it and stealing it same with feeders.

Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!! [Re: HS2] #6906832 10/03/17 03:33 AM
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Originally Posted By: HS2
I have no idea whether white tailed deer in Texas migrate.....They likely range a bit, but migration seems to stretch things. However, the mule deer in Wyoming sure do migrate, because they have a big ongoing study that proved it:

http://migrationinitiative.org/

As for the farmer's truck spooking deer....it's just like everything else: Things they see every day will not spook a deer, but unusual things will. I was at the target range one year sighting in my rifle two days before deer season, and a deer started feeding behind the targets. This was a gun range with twenty people blasting away, and this deer would have been wasted if someone just missed the target. But you give one unusual noise close to them and the deer will scatter.

The myth I'm tired of is that camouflaging your blind makes a difference. Only if it's portable that you put up and move every day. For anything left in the field, camo adds nothing.


That mule deer study provided some really great insight to Mulie deer recruitment and conservation, lots of habitat projects going on to help ease the migration dangers.

Southern Utah has a big migration also out of the paunsaugunt unit. Numbers and quality where plummeting. To find out they where getting hammered in thier wintering grounds in AZ. UT and AZ have worked together to lower tag numbers and season dates and now paunsaugunt is one of the most sought after Mulie units in the country.


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Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!! [Re: Captain Luke] #6906844 10/03/17 03:52 AM
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come mid deer season and our deer will run a mile away from the farmer's truck. Same truck as always, same route he takes everyday. Many thousands of acres, deer get spooky after seeing other deer killed

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Originally Posted By: Nogalus Prairie
That every deer some have ever shot was DRT.

As soon as I hear it, I know that person is FOS.

Magic bullets, magic ammo, magic calibers, magic Annie Oakleys who place every shot on a dime, magic deer that never move. The internet is full of magic. smile


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I never get tired of reading the myths because they have entertainment value.



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