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The opposite of attracting deer to an area?

My family has a good amount of land to hunt, we have a large field behind our house that is in the wide open to a public road. This field is where an eight pointer i was hunting all last year got shot from the road, out of season by some piece of trash human being. I would say the woods that border the edge of the field is a stretch of eighty yards. I'm wondering if there is any way to keep deer spooked from this area, there always going to be around i know but anything to keep them scared could help i think, any type of scent i could spread out or anything?

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Thanks for all the input, i like all the ideas. The only problem with stopping the road hunters is that they have been stopped before They just persist on. The warden set up a fake buck in the field a couple years ago and one guy not only shot once but three times in a row, there not very smart i guess so im betting the camera idea would go through!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    There's not much that will stop deer from good green grass . They are nothing more that urban rats . So stop the rd. hunters ..PLACE signs a long the rd where the field is . SMILE ! YOU"R ON VIDEO CAMREA!!! Then spread the word there's been cameras set up.

    You really don't have to set up the cams. Just make people think you did.

    Source(s): An old hunter.
  • 1 decade ago

    Unless you live in the deep, deep, deep, remote forest, the deer will NOT be spooked AT ALL by human hair or any type of urine. They adapt to the scents because nothing bad will be coming from the scents. Deer smell people and predator scents all of the time.

    Work on the road hunters. The suggestion involving cameras, and the threat thereof, is excellent. It does work.

  • You can use human hair. Go to your local barber and ask for some. if you spread it in the field it will deter deer. be careful the constant presence of human scent may change the deer habits more than you want to.

  • 1 decade ago

    Get human hair from your local barber and spread it out throughout the field. I dont know why but it works.

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  • 1 decade ago

    if you got a dog use it's sheds tie to trees it works. you don't want to keep deer off your property it's the poachers you want gone. chase em, post signs around property report to c/o's of shooting in area. or lay one in the ground in front of the vehicle. or out a window. you could always trap the road but tell your neighbors so they don't get a flat too.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Large predator urine, such as wolf or bear, helps well. Most hunting shops will sell it just for that reason.

  • 1 decade ago

    Drop your trousers and spread the gold rain all around.

  • 1 decade ago

    no but to discourage pot shooters put a scare crow with binoculars in view dressed accordingly as g@f that makes crusing halt generly

    Source(s): road hunters
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    ive heard that a few squirts of amonia work

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