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Eric Krewson:
I firmly believe deer hear an arrow coming in some instances and duck accordingly, not always but I have seen enough examples to verify this fact.

I took a shot at a huge doe as she walked under my tree and away from me. When she was about 6 yards away I turned it loose, the doe reacted by forming a "C" shape with her body, the arrow centered the C and missed I her completely. She didn't drop like one would expect from a normal deer, she dodged the path of the arrow.

Where I hunt deer are skittish, they always drop on a shot so you have to hold low. I took a shot at a deer on a food plot at a deer, food plot deer are really wired and will usually go into contortions when you loose and arrow at them. I feel like the doe I shot at heard the arrow coming and reacted accordingly, she froze and my broad head shaved a little hair off her brisket, right where I was aiming.

I was expecting her to drop into the arrow, she didn't and was probably the only deer I have ever shot at that froze at the shot.

I have seen other deer literally bounce their chest off the ground avoiding an arrow.

Pappy:
I feel pretty sure that would be a bad thing for hunting deer, sometimes if not fletched correctly or cut right feathers will make noise as will some slotted broad heads and I know from experience that ant good  :o so a whistling broad would for sure be a no no. As for poison arrows I am pretty sure that has been band in most places for a long time. :)
 Pappy

mullet:
Back in the 70's some of the guys around here wouldn't use the large Pierson Deadheads because they whistled.

Urufu_Shinjiro:

--- Quote from: EdwardS on November 26, 2016, 02:25:43 pm ---Having studied Manchu archery extensively, I tried a whistling hare fork arrow out on bunnies.  Makes them think it's a predatory bird or something, they stop dead in their tracks.  still haven't had a chance to try it on a deer, though.

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Now that sounds more like what these would be used for, small field game that would indeed have that freeze response.

loon:
maybe it depends on the pitch. dunno

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