I live on six wooded acres backed by some state forest land around Lake Talquin for which there is not only no public access, it’s so densely wooded I can’t even walk through most of it. For most of the year there are few deer here as there is little to no grass. But during deer season, they are practically wall-to-wall. I see them in daylight. They consume every bit of grass around my house and leave churned up tracks everywhere. As soon as deer season is over, they leave. Don’t tell me they don’t understand hunting season and where there won’t be any hunters.
Maybe hunting season should change every year, like Ramadan?
We lived on three wooded acres in Southeastern Pa, Dad had no hunting signs posted. Sure enough the deer would come. I remember waking up on hunting season Saturday to the sounds of gunfire. Lol
That is EXACTLY how it was for us when we had our rural TN property. The man who owned the property before us was an avid hunter and the deer disappeared during hunting season. We bought the place and posted around the perimeter. Starting from the first day of deer season they were everywhere. We’d have 12 - 15 in the back yard at one time.
I want to hunt ‘Spyglass Hill’ golf course.
The Bucks are so big you think they are Mulies, giant animals.
On one of the greens they just lay there while you putt.
Thinking they know they are safe.
And yet, they go bounding in front of people’s vehicles, causing injurious accidents. Their application of their intelligence is, shall we say, selective.