Steering Deer with natural barrier materials
01-25-2008, 12:52 PM
#13
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Michigan
Posts: 469
RE: Steering Deer with natural barriers
Sometimes ya gotta direct those deer to where you want them to go! Although deer like to walk through thick cover, they will sometimes walk the easiest route possible. If you put a huge log in their way, they may just go around it instead of leaping over it.
01-25-2008, 12:57 PM
#14
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Central Wisconsin
Posts: 1,196
RE: Steering Deer with natural barriers
Happend to me accidently with fallen oaks, deer come within 10 yards now. Other spot with lots of tall grass and brush. I took my 4-wheeler and road up and down this spot till I had bare dirt. now I have a heavy trail, and the deer kept eating the new growth so I ended up with a long narrow food plot also.
01-25-2008, 02:59 PM
#15
Giant Nontypical
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Indiana (southern)
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RE: Steering Deer with natural barriers
all righty then Grego [8D]natural materials for barriers 
are you happy now oh wise one [8D]
are you happy now oh wise one [8D]
ORIGINAL: GregH
Using natural materials to build a barrier, it is still a man-made barrier.A natural barrier would be something like a sheer drop off like a cliff. Semantics aside, any barrier you use will work. It depends on how much work you are willing to doand if it is permissable for you to do. A couple of pros and cons..... Natural material barriers will blend in better and may be overlooked by humans. They will break down and become a non-factor for the deer.
A length of woven wire fencing will really funnel the deer and won't break down. This won't bother the deer at all, but it will catch the eye of humans and they may investigate the reason for its being.
Personally, if I could I'd use the fencing. If I was on public land I'd use natural materials.
Using natural materials to build a barrier, it is still a man-made barrier.A natural barrier would be something like a sheer drop off like a cliff. Semantics aside, any barrier you use will work. It depends on how much work you are willing to doand if it is permissable for you to do. A couple of pros and cons..... Natural material barriers will blend in better and may be overlooked by humans. They will break down and become a non-factor for the deer.
A length of woven wire fencing will really funnel the deer and won't break down. This won't bother the deer at all, but it will catch the eye of humans and they may investigate the reason for its being.
Personally, if I could I'd use the fencing. If I was on public land I'd use natural materials.
01-25-2008, 03:42 PM
#18
Super Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Southeast Central Illinois USA
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RE: Steering Deer with natural barriers
I agree with GregH. Deer are very attentive to things that change, especially mature deer. For instance if I trim tree limbs from my stand area I always try to make sure I distribute the freshly cut limbs away from trails. We are in their bedroom and they know it much better than we ever will.
01-25-2008, 04:26 PM
#19
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Michigan/Ohio
Posts: 11,682
RE: Steering Deer with natural barriers
ORIGINAL: bloodcreek
tell me more Germ, how long before season did you do this?? did they take to it pretty good? did you score?
tell me more Germ, how long before season did you do this?? did they take to it pretty good? did you score?
I have shot 3 does in 5 years off that spot. Had a few bucks come by but no shooters. The biggest issue is I have not hunted it enough
Cougs I throw all my limbs in the river
01-25-2008, 05:16 PM
#20
Site Buck Guru
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Racine, Wisconsin
Posts: 5,922
RE: Steering Deer with natural barriers
Germ, you made a heck of a barrier out of natural materials. However, it would be hard for some to get the landowners permission to do that. For people that hunt on someone elses land the wire fence idea is removable. It will also last longer than the logs. I like the logs too though.
Bloodcreek,
Have I ever seemed totally happy!!??[:-]
Iam very pleased though!
Bloodcreek,
Have I ever seemed totally happy!!??[:-]
Iam very pleased though!