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Old Apache deer hunting tactics.
JW_Halverson:
--- Quote from: Bryce (Pinecone) on December 05, 2013, 02:38:33 pm --- i had seen on the tv this guy put his bow on his head and sway back and forth to a moose. the moose came closer, and closer, even crossing the river. as if he was mesmerized.
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I think I have seen this same video clip. The moose is probably in rut and was looking at the little wheelie bow on the guy's head like it was a smaller bull challenging him. Great way to get stomped into a mudhole and kicked dry! LOL!
I think there is a lot of value to this technique, so long as you can fool their noses. Once the nose is in on the joke, you are the punchline!
Bryce:
--- Quote from: JW_Halverson on December 06, 2013, 01:22:02 pm ---
--- Quote from: Bryce (Pinecone) on December 05, 2013, 02:38:33 pm --- i had seen on the tv this guy put his bow on his head and sway back and forth to a moose. the moose came closer, and closer, even crossing the river. as if he was mesmerized.
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I think I have seen this same video clip. The moose is probably in rut and was looking at the little wheelie bow on the guy's head like it was a smaller bull challenging him. Great way to get stomped into a mudhole and kicked dry! LOL!
I think there is a lot of value to this technique, so long as you can fool their noses. Once the nose is in on the joke, you are the punchline!
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Yep! That's the one!
Stringman:
Another trick I discovered was the tail flick. Ever notice how a WT will flick its tail to announce to another deer in the area? It's as though they are saying, "hey I'm a deer, what are you?" Then they go back to doin whatever and calm right down.
For my case I have been in the presence of deer and used my off hand to make a flickering motion from behind my body and noticed them immediately calm down. This works even better if you have saved the tail from a previous deer and just tie it to a belt loop.
mullet:
I've done the same with turkeys after someone told me they weren't spooked by something crawling. I've crawled over a hundred yards in a pasture on Gobblers in plain site and watching me, then shooting them with my Black powder shot gun. Chris Cade also showed me a toilet paper trick when I was hunting his place Thanksgiving. I hung a strip of paper from a waist high tree limb on the old rail bed I was hunting on. The big deer I shot stopped long enough and looked at it for me to get a shot on it. He told me they see the white in the breeze and think it's another deer.
JW_Halverson:
--- Quote from: mullet on December 06, 2013, 07:10:27 pm ---I've done the same with turkeys after someone told me they weren't spooked by something crawling. I've crawled over a hundred yards in a pasture on Gobblers in plain site and watching me, then shooting them with my Black powder shot gun. Chris Cade also showed me a toilet paper trick when I was hunting his place Thanksgiving. I hung a strip of paper from a waist high tree limb on the old rail bed I was hunting on. The big deer I shot stopped long enough and looked at it for me to get a shot on it. He told me they see the white in the breeze and think it's another deer.
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Explains why I always see deer while having my morning constitutional out in da woods!
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