Some of the annoying things you experience in the field.

Breathing inside a face mask, steams up my binoculars!
Making eye contact with a deer.
The nagging doubt, that you chose the wrong highseat.
Flip up scope covers and hat brims.

Making eye contact with a deer.


So what! If you are comfortable stand or stay still until the deer looks away...but wait a little longer for it may quickly look straight back again before deciding that you are no threat.....it works1

OK, some people claim that roe deer will pretend to eat then snap up their head to check if you moved...do any of you believe they are capable of this? I think that if they even suspected an armed predator was in the area, he would leave the flirting behind and get outta there!

No they do it all the time. If you haven't moved they'll go back to eating but likely repeat again a couple of times. Finaly you'll see them relax BUT be warned they're now on amber alert and you can't afford to make a repeat mistake as the threshold for pronking away is now much lower.

Boghossian,

As 1894 says they do it regularly and its about the worst time to make eye contact with them too!

I am not sure if its a simple case of them trying to "catch you out" althought that is a large element of it, but I have also read its to do with the ways deer vision works in that it supposedly sees movement or "change" better than resolving stationary objects..

What ever the fine detail is I know the normaly manage to pin you down in mid stride and you are ofrced to balance in some unnatural position until she (and it always seems to be a doe with me!) settles down a bit and starts feeding again,

Regards,

Pete

Trans,

To add a couple, the way you can be in a field with half a dozen deer that all manage to make it to cover without once leaving the horizon?!?!? In the same vein, the way a herd can move in front of your high seat and not a sngle shootable beast will come clear...

FB

I have seen bouth roe and red, staring to eat when been where susp about something. The thing that gives them away is that they don't swollow the grass.

I have had succes by just freezing and waiting until they start eating for real.

Johan

Hei Johan

Loong time no see

Currious, how can you tell they are swallowing the grass? Freezing is a very good trick, I have noticed that wild boars seems to be more alert than most deers.

Have you been hunting in Hungary?
Cheers
/ JOHAN

Once an old hunter recommended not to look into the deer�s or pig�s eye but rather to watch the feet.

In his opinion, the animals could sense being looked at directly. Personally, I am not supersticious but I think that also human beings can somehow sense being watched. Maybe animals have similar antennas.

That's absolutely correct. I've had curious young Roe's stalking/approaching me at 10-15 m, while sitting still and half hidden. This is only possible if you keep your eyes locked on the hoofs and the deer will bolt off once eye contact is made.

Hi Johan

They don't stop cheving, and the grass never leaves their mouth, sometimes it falls out, you observe non of the normal swallowing movment, and the often throw their head up suddenly, like to caths you, it no problem to see it in practise, if you are close enough. I bet that most of us could see if the grass is swallowed or not. Curiusly we are working on the digestion system right now in school. Very interesting acctually. Ruminants like roe and deer swallow their food quicly and do not chew for a long time, the way with that to a more quiet time, like cows.

I haven't hunted yet , me and some of the boys in school are planning a boar/fasan hunt, before easter, but it's hard finding a time where most are free, school often extends into the weekend for older student, extra courses etc. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping, I really can't afford it but sucking my thumb for the rest of the year is worth it.

If hunting girls goes as hunting then.......
It's a massacre

Johan

Hello Johan,
Good to have you back! I once know a hungarian girl, and if the rest is like she was, I am sure that you enjoy yourself!

Regards,
Martin

Who is taking about hungarians?

We are 50, Norwegians just in the first grade, we are 4 boys. There is something like 70 people all toghere in the class. And the ratio isn't much worse with the swedes, greeks, israelis etc. and then you have the .2 .3 .4 .5 year.



I have supprisingly little contact with the locals, the language is a bitch to learn. We are have a to big norwegian group, so we don't get the much contact. Mostly just look at the nice hungarians when they pass on the street.





By the way I think people that don't know how to use the hunting radios properly is bloody irritating.



And Iditarod is going our way this year to! Whoa!



Johan

Sounds like a good boy/girl ratio!

I agree on people who can't use the com-radio, but the worst kind is those who is chattering all the time. We have some like that in our little hunt. I was a guest at a large estate last year, and I was listning to the dog slowly coming closer and closer (and hence the roe) and not a sound in the radio. It was a bliss to hunt with this bunch that kept quiet when there was nothing to say. Eventually I shot the roe, and tired to get in touch with the "master" on the radio. The radio was as dead as the roe, and I later found out that it had been a lot of silly chatting on the radio including a lot of advice to look for the roe as it was coming my way (as if I did not hear). I wonder by the way if HerrBerg reads this...

To sum it up: Even more that I dislike silly chatting on the radio, I dislike the quality of hunting radios concidering the money we pay for them.

Jepp

You are right, it is the extra chatting that is a pain in the ass. I do not mind the chaisers talking to keep on line, or warning the posts about animals, but the posts should keep quiet. Thankfully we do not have a lot of problems with this on my team.

Johan