How fearless/brazen are deer

customrifle

Hi lads. as above just wondering as have sika passing through field at back of house and today noticed droppings in back garden close to dog run. would they be fearless enough to pass through back garden even with scent of dogs and would it be a case of "its coming straight for me" if i caught them out there :-D. ive often seen them at night about 60-80 yards from back fence when lm letting the dogs in from run. and the weimaraner was scenting like f#*k this morning round the place, sometimes i get ducks in the stream beside house, but he stopped at the droppings.

It wasn't me!

I think a lot of it is acclimation to their surroundings in terms of how unfazed they are by human surroundings, but I think they can be credited with a fair deal of balls in and of themselves sometimes. I flushed a sika hind from a pile of grass today while looking for pheasants. She waited until I was within about ten feet before getting up, so she had plenty of time to consider!

dodderangler

customrifle wrote: »

Hi lads. as above just wondering as have sika passing through field at back of house and today noticed droppings in back garden close to dog run. would they be fearless enough to pass through back garden even with scent of dogs and would it be a case of "its coming straight for me" if i caught them out there :-D. ive often seen them at night about 60-80 yards from back fence when lm letting the dogs in from run. and the weimaraner was scenting like f#*k this morning round the place, sometimes i get ducks in the stream beside house, but he stopped at the droppings.

Duck and deer In the garden
Jesus ya could shoot from ya bathroom window while takin a dump
Lucky for some

customrifle

dodderangler wrote: »

Duck and deer In the garden
Jesus ya could shoot from ya bathroom window while takin a dump
Lucky for some

i know man and ive knocked a few foxes in the fields to the side and back of house. missus sees me goin out the back door with rifle and lamp, she justs asks do i want her to hold it for me, lamp that is :-D

Grizzly 45

They can acilimatise very quick to humans .When I worked in San Diego one of our offices was in the middle of a nature reserve outside SD.
It was a non event to watch white tail deer come into the office parking lot and have to escort office staff to their cars for fear of the "wild animals":rolleyes::D.You could get within ten feet of them before they would be botherd to shift.All of about another ten feet .
Used to drive me and other hunters nucking futs in the building having to watch beautiful ten point plus bucks wander by in easy bow, or rifle range during open season, totally indifferent to humanity and proably smug in the knowledge they were in a well patrolled park by CA Fish& Game dept wardens.:P

ah sure !

i had one huge red stags walking around the car park where i work in Galway.
Probably an escaped farm deer though.

TriggerPL

ah sure ! wrote: »

i had one huge red stags walking around the car park where i work in Galway.
Probably an escaped farm deer though.

Red stag tend to be very brazen and during the rut potentionally dangerous , I know of a wild stag that comes down to feed on meal with horses most morning and the farmer there .

dbrock

very brazen when they get used to an area, this was my garden in the summer, the better half told me i aint doing my job right

tonytoc11

I was driving to work this morning and noticed what I thought was a donkey from a distance in a field on the edge of Lissarda just before the river on the way to Macroom. As I got closer it started looking like a strange donkey. Turned out to be a doe grazing in the middle of a field 50m from one of the busiest routes in Cork. Couldn't believe it.

dodderangler

tonytoc11 wrote: »

I was driving to work this morning and noticed what I thought was a donkey from a distance in a field on the edge of Lissarda just before the river on the way to Macroom. As I got closer it started looking like a strange donkey. Turned out to be a doe grazing in the middle of a field 50m from one of the busiest routes in Cork. Couldn't believe it.

And how many donkeys have ya shot so far?

tonytoc11

dodderangler wrote: »

And how many donkeys have ya shot so far?

Haha well to be fair now it was more of a presumption from a distance whilst driving so I deserve a break on that call.