Do deer know?

[GRIZ]

Do deer know when they are being hunted? Let's hear your opinion and reason for it.

I'd have to say yes because on two occasions I've been challenged by deer while runnin traps during deer season. Both times it was well past dark. So I'm even thinking they know we can't shoot them in the dark.

[Outdoors Junkie]

The mature deer know that they are being hunted.  I have a friend that told me a story about a big mature buck in Iowa.  This buck crawls into a big rose bush at his grandmother house (in town) every season.  The buck sits in that big rose bush the entire season and never leaves.  It is not a tame deer, but it will eat apple and other food that grandma tosses in the bush.  It gets up and is not seen again until next hunting season.  It was a 16 pt buck a couple years ago when he told me this story and his grandma has pictures of this big fella.

[Bufflehead]

 Oh ya, they know there being hunted.

 I seen 25 deer on opening morning by 7:35AM

 I seen ONE! deer on day two of opening morning.

 Shoot at a few and they change their pattern's like right now!

 

[JD]

This year I am hunting the second weekend of zone 4.  After being shot at the first weekend and then have a week off, do you think the deer have calmed down in that time by Saturday morning of the second weekend?  I have always found that I've done much better the first weekend than the second one.

[Gopher]

I would say they know.   After the first morning,  I think they change there patterns really fast. 

[Mayfly]

They know something is up!

I talked to one hunter who watched a nice buck crawl out of a corn field on his belly. The hunter also shot this deer while crawling.

I don't know if this deer always crawls out of the corn field but to me it sounds like he was a little worried.