Just want to get some opinions and experiences on this. If you shot a deer(any species) in a feild or from a seat, does it bother the rest of the deer population? Would you expect to see deer back in that spot within 24-28 hrs?
Assuming the best scenario, they don"t see you, you neck shoot a deer, it goes down, you let the others wander off, drag it away for gralloch etc. Would you go back to that spot the next day or day after, or would you try somewhere else?
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Yes I would, especially if you did the grallocking part elswere,

so that no blood scent is left unnessesary at the spot.


Deer are notorious for being habitual animals, at least in Sweden.

This summer I had doe and yearling out in this one field all buck season long, come fall they enter the woods and dont reappear much.

/C

Roe deer usually do not mind the blood scent, they rather mind "hunting pressure", that is human scent or people walking to and fro high stands.

I saw whitetail deer approaching bait sites over the body of a dead one.

Pigs very much seem to mind blood scent from own family.

According to my experience you could expect them back within an hour as long as there is no human scent i the area.

I have seen moose literally passing by a steaming gutpile without even lend a look.
I seems that they dont react that much on blood scent.

But again, there are no rules carved in stone when deer are concerned.

I don't know about European deer species, but the deer that I hunt in Texas and Oklahoma are not effected at all by gun shots or human presence in an area.

I have killed as many as 3 deer from one stand in a span of 30 minutes before getting down and retrieving the first one.

My partner shot a fine mule deer buck this fall, and while we were skinning it out, I shot a doe who had stood watching us for about five minutes. After I shot my own mulie buck two weeks later, the entire herd returned to the field within thirty minutes and began grazing. I have observed this behavior on numerous occasions. Whitetails are more skittish, but it is not uncommon to see them in the same field in the evening after a morning kill.

I agree with everyone above and have had many unusual and also surprizing turn of events at the same seat or off the same field; with & without other game being present. I've had Deer come out of the forest to investigate the sound of a shot in an open field and then walk up to & sniff a recently expired Deer.

I've experienced everything from NO activity for days after shooting Deer or Wild Boar from a particular spot to shooting several Deer from one seat in the space of 1.5 hours WHILE other Deer stand closeby where after a couple of seconds of frozen tension they all calmly go back to foraging. I've even seen them walk up to downed Deer and look/smell them.

For Deer to remain standing after the shoot my expereince has been to get a so-called Bang-Flop. If the Deer drops at the shot many times I've had the remaining Deer freeze, then anxiously look around and go back to foraging after 10-15 seconds. If the Deer that has been shot bolts at the shot the rest seem to take off with their soon to expire colleague.

While I gut Deer at the forest edge, not in the middle of fields or on forest roads - the gut piles do not appear to detract game one way or another. Mostly the Foxes, Crows and other scavengers finish off their treat by the next day anyway and Wild Boar are champions for scarfing up gut piles & carrion, except; as DUK states, Wild Boar appear to avoid areas where their ilk have been shot & gutted, so I always remove Wild Boar from the killing fields and do the gutting elsewhere.

On several occasions, I've shot Red and Roedeer in the middle of a herd. The other animals just lifted their heads at the sound of gunfire and, seeing no threat, went back grazing quite rapidly.

Species makes a difference.If it's roe and a good food source they'll be out there again soon (if they were in a larger herd)

I generaly leave it a couple of days as I feel they do get the message second time around if it's really close. That said I would rather shoot the same field for two days and then leave it for a month than to shoot the same field every weekend.

I have often shot deer that come out shortly after I have shot a fox. Pete doesn't agree with my philosophy though...

Once I shot a Roe buck from a high seat and then 20mins later three roe does came out and then a Fallow doe with a calf. No pricket showed up for me to shoot though. The remaining deer just milled around the downed carcass grazing away.

Towards the end of the season when deer are thick on the ground and we are catching up we often get out and shoot multiple Fallow from the same location. With Ian, PeteE and Artemis last year we shot four bucks, and saw many more deer over 3-4 consecutive outings. We killed every time and I saw no less traffic as a result. We gralloched at the edge of the holding wood and left the Gralloch there.

Rgds,
FB