pushing deerto yourself?

[44charlie]

has anyone tried to drive /move deer to themselves using a slingshot or say trash arrows with human scent on them. saw this idea long ago in a book but never tried it.

i have two good setups that would allow me to move deer off private property to me if this trick works.

penny for your thoughts or storie.


thanks charlie the lonely hunter

[owlbait]

I've used a slingshot to drive deer , have gotten deer to move towards others but not myself, yet! I have worn out two wrist rocket bands over the last 3 years. I use cheap glass marbles, but heavy steel ball bearings really make a lot of noise, but don't get the distance I need to try to get deer to turn back toward me.

[smalson]

I tried the slingshot method several times.  Never moved a deer from anywhere to anywhere else that I could see.  If they did move, it was just within the cover and they never came out.  I tried it around Fowlerville and around Clare (Michigan) . . .  and the sound of the ball bearings and of the marbles and of the stones wasn't significant enough to move the deer . . .   apparently.  

I never tried arrows, and I think the liability might be pretty high on that.  Flinging arrows into the distant cover where someone might be sitting in a tree or taking a walk or ???? seems like a bad idea.  

Just my thoughts.

Steve

[madness522]

I have hung recently worn tee shirts on a fence line above and below my position trying to convince the deer that I wasn't there.  It might have worked as I saw a couple deer doing that but the woods were so thick I couldn't see the tee shirts on the fence so I didn't know if they went to either spot to cross first or not.

[Shaun]

I read that Howard Hill used arrows with caps (the kind old toy cap pistols fired) placed on a blunt with another larger shell case over them. These would bang / pop like a gun when they landed and drive the deer towards him. Of course he did not need the deer to get as close to him as we do.

[Mike Orton]

While I have personally never done this I've heard of a guy who had patterned a deer to be in a spot that he didn't want that deer to be in at a given time.  He obviously wanted to move the deer out of the one spot and hopefully toward himself in another spot.  He used a windup alarm clock, set the time and alarm to go off at a specific time.  Interesting idea.

I heard that it had worked out for him, sort of...it moved the deer but the deer moved away running like the devil himself was chasing him...

[Woodduck]

I hunt some farm/field edges in peanut growing season and parked my vehicle at one end to make them come toward my end.

Also had a doe, her fawns, and a 6 point, get used to my permanent tree stand.
They had patterned me; and a doe, two fawns, and this buck would come by my stand looking every afternoon.  The doe was teaching her fawns about tree stands and the buck was trailing all of them. Every afternoon here they would come. 'Bout the time I could see the buck, that doe would start stamping her foot and look toward the stand; trying to get me to move, so the fawns would learn about me and tree stands. Then the fawns would get curious and nervous and pay attention. Then the doe would BLOW and they'd all tear out from there.
So, one day I put my tee shirt in the stand and backed downwind where the deer had been coming, got downwind from there, and put camo netting around my stool.
They all came by me, tiptoeing, looking toward the old tree stand. It sure felt good and I felt real smart when the doe and fawns made it past me on the stool. Then the six point was following along behind them all, just like the other days. School was out but lessons were learned that afternoon.