Im sitting in the blind and was thinking.... If someone shoots a deer at a feeder or in that area and other deer are there especially say if the deer usûally travel together does it change the other deers pattern? Are do they not care and has no affect

I have not noticed a difference

A lot depends on the deer in that area. How much pressure is put on them. IME when shooting deer at a feeder it is what you do after the shot that dictates what the deer will do. If you shoot the deer and it drops or runs off then let the rest of the deer leave the area before exiting the blind to get your deer. If you can have someone come pic you up to run deer off if they don't leave and you need to get out. The more the deer can associate the shot with the blind the more problems you will have. You shooting and then immediately getting out and running deer off is a bad thing IMO. I also try to corn areas away from the feeder in openings or roads to shoot deer at so they can come to feeder and not expect to be shot at.

I've seen it go both ways. Sometimes they'll show back up the next day or maybe a few days later. Sometimes don't see them for the rest of the season at that feeder.

Never seen it affect our deer.. I have shot deer with others around usually they will scatter for a few minutes but usually come back and will walk around the dead deer to eat..

My theory about shooting around deer, is that it doesn't bother them until they get shot.

Sounds good. And yes ranch man, I totally agree and try to do that even if I don't shoot a deer.

I agree with this. I think that the deer are more afraid of the human presence than they are of the gun shot.

I will say this my experience is from having to shoot lots of deer at every blind/feeder on a ranch for management purposes at the start. So I look at it from how can I keep the deer around and not flying out sight when a leaf falls to the ground.

Even when I don't shoot a deer if there are deer at the feeder I have my buddy drive over there and run them off before I get out of the blind. I don't know if it really matters or not but I have never liked letting them know where I am, especially if I'm Bow Hunting.

i agree it depends on the deer in the area, and the amount of hunting pressure. area's with light or little hunting pressure don't always even run off when a shot is fired. our ranch is hunted lightly and its common for the deer to not leave when a shot is fired. or very quickly come back. also we try to not let the deer see us get in and out of the blinds. and we shoot a lot of our deer behind the front shoulder, a good double lung shot. most deer when shot this way will run a short ways. ours typically don't make it outa sight, but they will run 15yds or so. the times where i've neck or head shot a deer and they drop right there and flop around it seems to alarm the other deer more so than if the shot deer runs a short ways and expires.

it all comes down to hunting pressure....if the deer are being shot at every time they visit that feeder, its going to freak them out.

also like was said before, try not to shoot all your deer at the feeder. as we've needed to take more animals off our place for density sake, we've explored the idea of corning various roads and such and shooting does namely in locations other than at the blinds. it takes hunting pressure off those stands. same with hogs. if you're shooting hogs every time you get in the blind... all that shooting at your stand will affect the deer. try and trap your hogs at some other location and do less killing there at that feeder.

i had 4 does at my feeder last weekend i shot 1 of them the 3 took off.but 1 came back but did not go to the feeder it was unsure where the shot came from.

It wasn't a shot at a feeder, but last year I had a field of deer out to the left of me on my hay pasture. It was a small buck I called "the Lovemaster" and about 5 or 6 does. I had no intention of doing any shooting, until a big boar came out from the woods on my right. Well...no big stinkin boar is going to get a free pass, so I took him down. The deer all stayed where they were. None ran off. The Lovemaster walked over to sniff the boar and then went back to his women.

As for hogs, they seem to learn fast where you might be shooting from. I never see them moving around near where I took my last shot at them. That said, in past years 5 minutes after I shot a hog, here they came again. I guess there's no absolute correct answer as to what the critters will do.

All I know is that once it's this late in the season, I always see more deer when I hunt in the middle of the week when a lot fewer people are shooting deer at their feeders.

I agree with this. It depends greatly on the deer in your area and how much pressure they are getting put on them. I have hunted places where the haul some arc after a shot never to be seen again in that area and I have hunted places where you couldn't run them off walking right at them banging a coffee can with a metal spoon. Know your deer. They will answer this question for you.