If only it were this easy! lol

[sam barrett]

I don't think they're hunting on public land in PA. haha.     It did take about 6 minutes of hunting though.   :D    

[Jayrod]

Where in the heck do you set out in the open and rattle and move and deer run next to you like cattle

[Stump73]

That's a great video.

[Duncan]

In yo dreams!

[sam barrett]

I think it was filmed at the King ranch in Texas, which is low fence (I think), but I don't think those deer have ever seen a human before? lol

[Roadkill]

Wish I had a zoo to hunt.  The fence must be just beyond the brush.

[Matty]

Seriously. Sit on a stool in the middle of a field and shoot a huge buck. Lol
Ohhhhh they MUST HAVE BEEN WEARING A SCENT BLOCK SUIT!!!

[Junglecat]

Originally posted by sam barrett:
I think it was filmed at the King ranch in Texas, which is low fence (I think), but I don't think those deer have ever seen a human before? lol

I hunted the Norias division of the King Ranch back in 1999 for javelina and hogs.The terrain does look quite similar so that could have been filmed there.Deer everywhere but they were not very afraid of people.It is a high security working cattle ranch with strict rules about where you can go and the time of day you do it.We actually primitive camped on the ranch at a camp next to an old cowboy bunkhouse.It has gotten expensive to hunt there now especially for deer.It is definitely low fence as only a 2 or 3 strand barbwire fence separated the various pastures and game can readily jump over or go under the fences.I hunted with two friends and the 3 of us had sole access to a 10,000 acre pasture for 4 days.That section of the ranch also had some nilgai back then which we would have been able to take if we got the opportunity.We did see one but it was a long way off.It was one of the best trips I ever went on.I think they do have a website for hunting.My avatar pic is from that hunt.

[Daz]

Even I know about the King Ranch, and i live in the middle of nowhere!

I remember reading about it in the early 80's as a kid. I recall it being one of the most managed and studied white-tailed deer herds in North America at the time.

I even think it was used as a study site to determine optimal buck to doe ratios for whitetails, which back then was pretty novel study stuff.

I'm guessing it is still wild and unfenced deer, but with little exposure to humans and in an area with optimal mature buck to doe ratios that is what rattling will produce.

[medic77]

It's a cool video regardless of where it was.  I loved hearing the shot.

[Junglecat]

Originally posted by Daz:
Even I know about the King Ranch, and i live in the middle of nowhere!

I remember reading about it in the early 80's as a kid. I recall it being one of the most managed and studied white-tailed deer herds in North America at the time.

I even think it was used as a study site to determine optimal buck to doe ratios for whitetails, which back then was pretty novel study stuff.

I'm guessing it is still wild and unfenced deer, but with little exposure to humans and in an area with optimal mature buck to doe ratios that is what rattling will produce.

One thing we noticed while there was that if anything the does were wilder than the bucks and even the does were not that wild.We kept hearing and seeing helicopters but not in the area we were hunting.Several years after our hunt I read an article about research and maybe even relocation of some of the deer on the ranch to other places.It dawned on me at that time that just possible that was some sort of study or relocation effort going on at the same time we were there when we saw and kept hearing the helicopters.All of this activity was in different pastures that were adjacent to where we were actually hunting.If any of you have the Feb.-March 2001 article of Traditional Bowhunter Magazine the story of our hunt is in that issue.A friend of mine wrote and relayed his hunt of being taken down by a wounded and very angry javie.

[Stumpkiller]

If I drew on a buck with a doe facing me there would be tails and elbows everywhere.  I take it that's the trail the feed truck takes every evening and the deer were wairing to be fed.

Still - that was a pretty good shot.

[kadbow]

Good thing the hunter had a face mask on or he would have spooked em.

[T Sunstone]

Didn't they name a Ford truck after that ranch?    

They still needed some corn

[jsweka]

Man, if only it were that easy in PA.
Even with the good snow we recently got, I still spooked deer 100 yards away while still hunting yesterday.

[sam barrett]

I'm really not trying to pick on the hunter or anything. But, I think we can all relate to how uncommon that would be for just about anywhere else in country while hunting whitetail deer.  They were just out in the open and the guide, with no facemask or gloves was just banging those horns together.  It was still a great shot, but I had to chuckle a little when I saw that video.

[David Mitchell]

You would never get away with as much movement as that guy rattling was doing around here in WV where I hunt!  Those have to be deer not used to humans. Maybe what I need is some cowboy boots like the shooter is wearing--fake 'em out into thinking you're just another cowboy out checking on things.  :D