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armymedic.2:
So a few times last season i was stalemated with wide open pasture between me and sixty yards or sometimes a hundred yards and a deer.  It got me to thinking one evening as i sat wathing a doe feed, if only i could scare her my way somehow.    Like a whistler way high landing on her far side.  Maybe that was just craziness talking and unlikely for success but it was a theory

Anyone ever tried it?   Low odds i know but when the odds are zero what do you have to lose? Especially if you happen to be sitting on the escape route from the field

Pat B:
Keith, give it a try in the off season where you really have nothing to loose.   Although being that the sound is originating from where you are the deer might find a different route.
  I've had good luck with a grunt tube over the years. A fawn distress bleat will bring a doe in but she will be on point and ready to fight.

PrimitiveTim:
You'd have to get the whistle at just the right amount of noise so it doesn't hear the take off but hears the landing.  Or you could have something snap when the arrow hits the ground.  ooh or explode.  We used to shoot firecrackers out of a slingshot from my friend's balcony.  An explosive arrow, that's real primitive.

sonny:
What are the chances that the deer will stop within shooting range ??
Also, the last thing I'd want to do is to scare one into range. They're jumpy enough as is....
well some of 'em are and the others seem to react to the jumpy one.

crooketarrow:
 Now that you said it. I havn't thought of it in years but A guy told me he had the same problem the deer in a field. I don't know if this is true but he said he'd do it. He never heard him said it resulted in a kill. He said he took little bells and tie 1  on 2 behind his broad head. He said he'd  lob arrows everyday trying to get those deer to come him and his friends way. If all you want is to shoot any deer there's lots of other tatics to kill doe's that works a lot better. Than just hopeing to get one go come your way.

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