From: young@alw.nih.gov (Jeff Young)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.animals
Subject: Re: Wolves vs Men
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:43:20 GMT
Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD


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Excerpts from mail: 8-Apr-92 talk.politics.animals #4883..
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> In article <z82tb0p@rpi.edu>, schwae@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Eric A.
> Schwartz) writes:
> mething at you,

> |> I know calculus, I can figure things like that out.  Sometimes I can
> |> sense where something comes from, sometimes can't.  Do they know, even
> |> with films to look over, where the shot that killed Kennedy came from?
> |> 

> Deer don't have a Warren Commission report to confuse the issue.
> I didn't say anything about getting out a protractor and examining
> the evidence, only using your senses.  Next time you see a deer who
> hasn't seen you, clap your hands loudly and see how long before
> he's zeroed in on your position.

> Further, relying on sight isn't the best way to know from where a 
> bullet comes.  A gun makes a loud noise, the ricochet makes a noise
> and the bullet makes a noise as it speeds off into the brush.  Your
> ears aren't a fool-proof direction finder but they are pretty good.
> A deer's ears are better (cupped and pivotal).
>  

> |> Do you hunt deer only when more than one is present? 

> No, I do stand by the assertion that deer move together
> especially the young.  In my opinion (only), the hunter has a
> greater chance of seeing deer moving in groups than he/she
> does seeing solitary deer.  This has been my experience.  I see
> the most deer before dawn or after dusk.  The only deer that
> I have ever seen travelling alone are older, 6+ point bucks.
> My experience may not hold for gun season because I generally
> do not hunt during gun season (I sometimes hunt on a friends
> posted land with my bow during gun season to keep people from
> "wandering" on to the property).
>  
> |>In any
> |> case, nobody knew Reagan was shot until he started coughing up
> |> blood in the limo. 
>   
> But they sure as hell were scared though.  There wasn't a person in
> that limo that didn't think that an attempt had been made on the
> president's life. There wasn't a secret serviceman who hadn't drawn
> his weapon or jumped on the assailant.  Kinda proves my point don't it?

> |> 
> |> Does hunting season coincide with seasons when bucks stick together?

> No.  In fact, the gun hunting season takes place during the rut, a time when
> deer are not particularly wary - they have other things on their minds.

> |> Are the young still following the mother by hunting season?

> In my experience, often they are.  The small bands that I referred to 
> are sometimes made up of adults and young does/spike bucks.  I have
> never seen a yearling off by itself.

> |> A deer's vision is significantly worse than a human's.  It only gets
> |> better on very dark nights, when there isn't enough light to use
> |> any sort of detail vision.
> |>  
> |> E.S.

> I'd like to know where you found this information.  In my experience
> I have found that deer have good vision.  I have frightened more than
> my fair share of deer with a small movement or a blink of the eyes.

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> 	jy
> 	young@heart.dcrt.nih.gov


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