Qdma ???

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I visit the QDMA forum occasionally just to read up on what everybody is doing. I do practice "shoot/let walk" but don't really fall into the program per say. I happened to read this post from one of the members over there that is from SC. Might even be a member here.

My question is just how far can you take this management junk? This is far out!!!!


"I have my property lines in firebreaks and foodplots. The interior of my place is sanctuary and I only enter the onterior after the season on a limited basis in rain or high wind.

I think deer need a place to call safe but you can still manage it without spookng them. Here is what I do. I never enter my property to work without driving my tractor even if I don't need to. A tractor is loud and slow and deer hear them all the time. I often look in the woods to my left when mowing, discing etc. Deer often are just inside the woods watching me go by. If this happens I never stop and look just keep going. When I limb lanes or hang Loc ons I take the tractor and leave it running whle I work. I have Cudde back pics of me mowing clover and deer eating moments later and I often make a turn and they just freeze till I get right at them and and the leave.

Last year we had a dry spell and I could ot get to a stand without crunching leaves and spooking deer. I got my cousin to drive me on the tractor and never stop. I hopped off and before he was out of site i was up with an arrow nocked. Later you guessded it back straps baby.

I do not think busting deer on the tractor is as bad as busting deer walking. Deer are prey and they are often snuck up on and spooked. A laud tractor isn't going to do that. They get use to it and let their guard down.

I do not think an ATV will cause the same effect. "

[quack head 11]

Man QDM is just like everything else, you got people that practice it and then you got weirdo's. Maybe he forgot his med's before that post.

Maybe he was poking fun at somebody for a stupid post previously and you just caught the tale end of it?


Who knows? I am a member and while I learn ALOT about management other people are there just to take up space.

I will agree if they have to put in that kind of effort to kill a deer, then that is pretty bad.
Might need to play the wind and be more of a woodsman.

[GobblerHntr]

Kuku for Coco puffs

[Swamp Rat]

I do know this... he is right on about the tractor. Deer will become very accustomed to the sound and working of a tractor, but will also learn quickly to associate an ATV with DANGER, Will Robinson! The best way to avoid that is to walk... or, maybe, get an electric golf cart.

[Idlewild]

"I have my property lines in firebreaks and foodplots. The interior of my place is sanctuary and I only enter the onterior after the season on a limited basis in rain or high wind.

I think deer need a place to call safe but you can still manage it without spookng them. Here is what I do. I never enter my property to work without driving my tractor even if I don't need to. A tractor is loud and slow and deer hear them all the time. I often look in the woods to my left when mowing, discing etc. Deer often are just inside the woods watching me go by. If this happens I never stop and look just keep going. When I limb lanes or hang Loc ons I take the tractor and leave it running whle I work. I have Cudde back pics of me mowing clover and deer eating moments later and I often make a turn and they just freeze till I get right at them and and the leave.

Last year we had a dry spell and I could ot get to a stand without crunching leaves and spooking deer. I got my cousin to drive me on the tractor and never stop. I hopped off and before he was out of site i was up with an arrow nocked. Later you guessded it back straps baby.

I do not think busting deer on the tractor is as bad as busting deer walking. Deer are prey and they are often snuck up on and spooked. A laud tractor isn't going to do that. They get use to it and let their guard down.

I do not think an ATV will cause the same effect. "

I'm thinkin' spellcheck has joined another forum. Nahhhh, couldn't be, there's like....90% of the words spelled correctly.

[Turd Ferguson]

spehlcek only wants to shoot haWGZ

[Palmetto Bug]

I know the turkeys at my place have started ignoring my ATV. I see a lot of deer while riding it too. They only get nervous when I shut it off. I make a point to ride the ATV around the property as often as I'm there, mostly just to keep the trails open but I think it also keeps the deer acclimated.

A friend taught me that deer aren't afraid of a corn combine. He shot a very nice 8 point out of a field in which the combine was still ticking while cooling off.

One of the heavy equipment operators digging ponds at my place said deer will visit a dig site as soon as they cut the machines off for the evening.

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I know the turkeys at my place have started ignoring my ATV. I see a lot of deer while riding it too. They only get nervous when I shut it off. I make a point to ride the ATV around the property as often as I'm there, mostly just to keep the trails open but I think it also keeps the deer acclimated.

A friend taught me that deer aren't afraid of a corn combine. He shot a very nice 8 point out of a field in which the combine was still ticking while cooling off.

One of the heavy equipment operators digging ponds at my place said deer will visit a dig site as soon as they cut the machines off for the evening.

Deer are curious and I have seen a few killed by loggers that sat up in the loader after work. The company my dad works for, built a lot of roads for Westvaco back in the 70's. He said they would see deer regularly around the machinery and tracks all around it the next morning. It is all what deer get use to seeing, but damn having to drive a tractor each and every time I want to ride around my property or go hunt.

Friend of mine has hit several at night with a combine while cutting corn. Right nasty sight after one gets caught up