Deer Avoidance System
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harley@16
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Deer are smart at eluding you when you're in the woods hunting them, but let me tell ya they can't think straight when by a road. One day I was driving down the back roads near my home and 100 feet out in a field a deer saw me coming and started running at full speed to try and cross the road in front of me. I'm doing 40-45 mph and I can't believe it he is at a dead run in a vector to get out in front of me. Now I realize that he was spooked but why run in front of me why not run the other way? I should correct myself here, they are mostly does that I see the bucks are hiding somewhere, so they don't get killed. I see at least 30 road kills a year around here every year compared to maybe 2 dogs and 2 cats. Deer around here are dumb.
what are "whins" Brian? I am guessing it's a fence or something. BTW, my spellcheck underlined the word whins so even my spellchecker doesn't know what it is!
The english word for whin is gorse it grows on almost any bit of land that is not regularly attended to it grows to between 3-7 feet at the edge of the road has a very dense covering of spines that are there all year round so blocks your line of sight to the side of the road the deer use it for cover
Gorse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brian
I did some searching for whin but couldnt find it but whin hill a hill coverd in whins give a lot of results of names of places so perhaps it is an old saxon name still in use in scotland but not in england
Of course, gorse. I should've known that!
I can see where that stuff can make a lot of blind spots along the road where it grows being that it's so dense. We would have very little time to react I think if a deer bounded from that stuff. Sounds like good rabbit cover though!
Of course, gorse. I should've known that!
At the side of the road the whins grow just like a hedge along the fence line but has gaps in places where the deer come out but no rabbits there is not enough feeding for them there and rabbits like to stay close to their warren however phesant are pretty common
Brian
mat 60
Senior Member
Hay...Im not into all the bells and whistles but now that we are talking deer..3 days agow I was walking out frunt of my home, cleaning up and some deer left his leg as a calling card....Im not kidding....Does a deer foot bring you good luck? To tell you the truth it was kind of nasty . I wonder what happened..? Must be someones whistle quit working.. I also would like to ask you guys that have them, how can you tell when your whistle doesnt whistle? After all you dont get much for five bucks and thay did came from walmart...
Breeze3at
Experienced Member
Of course, gorse. I should've known that!
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And what Fin considers "english" is different than ours. I do like a lot of their terms and words. :s
I do use a mixture of words from different languages and dialects within languages and some words i use i dont know where they belong i just know their meaning
Brian
Fin we Yanks should remember that our "english" comes from those different languages and dialects. We have lost the correct pronunciation and meaning along the way. I'm afraid with the computer we will have a generation that speaks in sound bites only, what a shame. As to the deer avoidence systems I've tried several and have not seen where they are effective at alerting the deer.