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

[Big lost river archer]

This last year I over shot on an bull elk purposely to try and spook him back to the wood line out of the field.  It got him and his three cows closer but not enough for a real effective shot.  I think in the right situation it would work for dear too.  For me it was getting close to sunset and it was kind of a last resort desperation move.

[gobbler10ga]

heres one I read where a feller set up alarm clocks to go off few min apart all the way thru the woods

[thetroutguy]

I have heard of people setting up on one branch of a Y-shaped trail and tying a balloon on the other branch of the Y so the deer used the trail he was sitting on.  I have never tried it, but seems reasonable.

[Toxophilite]

30 years ago, I got to know a "mountain man" named Bill Queen from Magdalena, N. Mexico who showed me how to make and use a string & pocket sling to quietly lob rocks down into draws and canyons to get game to move. It worked enough times that I still carry one in my pocket and use it one in awhile as a "noisy" hunting partner.

[madness522]

Toxophilite, can you give us more info on the pocket sling?  Maybe some pics or a build-along?

[Toxophilite]

This is the best place I've found for pocket sling info:

 http://slinging.org

The one I've always made and used is the simplest design they show:

 http://slinging.org/17.html

When I hunt alone and use my sling, it's always to quietly lob a rock about the size of a big lemon several yards to make some noise on the other side of a thicket, canyon, or ridge. That and playing the wind has brought many deer much closer to me.  The best mulie I ever got came right up a ridge to me after I tossed a big rock down into the far side of a little canyon in New Mexico.
It's like bowhunting--a little practice and you can hit barns. Lots of practice and you can hit milk jugs...Fun for the kids, too...

[Old York]

I tried the slingshot trick some years back and all it did was spook some deer in back of me. I'll bet they were headed my way!

I think it's still worth a try - maybe use the slingshot when the deer are a long ways out and hopefully they won't pick up on the noise of the shot.

Every time I think I can outwit these buggers I generally get laughed out of the woods. And of course the tree-rats chime in too.    

[O2]

I cant do the story justice but Otto has a good one.  
Lets just call it a dirty trick.

   O2

[fireman_3311]

Didn't I read of one of the Wensel's, used a dirty sock to make a big ole' buck use the trail he was huntin???

[Doug S]

I have done it, but a firecracker taped on an arrow then shot past them might do the trick. Hold the lighter in your draw hand and set it up so the wick end hits the flame at full draw. Better practice first though. It would be like a big bottle rocket.

[Doug S]

I should have said I haven't done it. I have used my bow to shoot tranqualizer darts at a few  wild cattle I have had when I needed to put one down. I taped the dart to the end with no tip in the arrow and then shot> worked great. I think a firecracker taped about 6 inches up the arrow and a long wick would work.

[Otto]

What O2 (my brother!!) is referring to is:

A couple of years ago he and I were hunting a place where the deer could take one of 2 paths through a funnel.  The path we DIDN'T want them to take was less than 5 feet wide, between a steep crick (creek to you city fellers) bank and a 9 ft high chain link fence of a neighboring property.  If they went that way, we had no chance of even seeing a deer, much less having a shot.  So we got tired of sittin there each day, knowing that there were scads of deer around but that they were probably taking the narrow path and skirting around us.

Well, the evening before our next hunt, I took an ole pair of skivies and I installed a, er, um, well, a, ah...well, I put a big ole skidmark in em.  We're talking a Mexican food skidmark.  A big ole BEAN BURRITO skidmark.  Man did they STINK!!!!!  So I put the skivies in a ziplock bag for the night.

Next morning, we got up, hiked into the woods, got to the "Y" in the trail and about 10 yds up the trail we DIDN'T want the deer to follow, I hung the "stained" skivies in a bush right on the trail.  Then me and O2 headed on to our regular stands.  Heh Heh...we didn't kill nuthin that day but we saw a lot of deer!!!!

[Old York]

Otto ~ Gads, that is the funniest story I've yet to read here. I'm still drying my eyes....


Does your brother hunt upwind or downwind from you?

[JBiorn]

DOUG!! You can't do that!! At least in Idaho you can't. Fish cop would have your ass.


 Jeff

[Doug S]

Jeff,
 I know in the west you'd fry. Really.
 I looked to see he was from Michigan before I suggested it. It's so wet there most of the time he'd be fine. Still Parental discretion is advised.