how to keep deer away

schmokee

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Also, try bringing a male dog with you. Let him mark close to your patch. Deer do not like dogs (canines), and the marking may encourage other predators in area (fox,wolf,coyote,etc.) to investigate the dog smell and in turn remark the area with their own scent and make an "invisible" danger/ no go area (high predator activity) for deer.
Food for thought...
 

Godkas

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WAIT not flyswatters. Hide in the bushes with a wiffle ball bat in each hand. When they get near just roar and start beaning them with them.
 

green_nobody

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Contributed by: livin 4 now
Submitted: 29-07-2003

Soap: Heavily scented soaps work at repelling deer. Among these are Irish Spring and Zest. What you do is shave the soap in thin slices around your plot. The pros are that it works, but the cons are that you must replace the soap once a week. This gets very old very quick, as well as cost you money every time.

Human Scents: Deer dislike the smell of human scents. One method of spreading your scent around is to urinate all around your site. What you may also choose to do is urinate in a 2 liter soda bottle, and pour it around your plot when you visit. Urine, like the soap, will need to be replaced every week. Another, more cumbersome, yet more efficient solution is to spread human hair around the area. This may be retrieved from a barber shop. In this case, you simply throw fistfuls of hair around the area, and it is said to repel deer for a few weeks, unless rain washes it away.

Fencing: Ive found that simply setting up a physical barrier around your plot will keep deer away. You'll want to pre-measure the perimeter of your area. Make sure the fence is at least 3 feet past your plants on all sides so the deer doesn’t reach in and snack on fresh shoots. Then go to a local hardware or superstore and get 2 lengths of dark colored fencing that are long enough to reach around your plot. This fencing can range from wire to rope, just anything that’s strong and will resist stretch. You'll need multiple lines to prevent small babies up to large deer from eating your grow. A line about 2 feet, 3.5, 5 ft and 7 ft should suffice. It is my understanding that fawns are copying their mothers actions for the most part, but you should not underestimate their curiosity. Fawns probably won't ruin your grow, larger deer will. I've personally seen a deer hurdle a 5 ft barbwire fence. 7 ft should be plenty. If you have extra line feel free to make more wraps. If you wrap your plot with the above suggestion, you are not guaranteed protection from deer, but they will surely not jump the fence unless necessary.

If you are paranoid about it, you can hang branches from the line as camouflage. This will not "hide" the fence, but it will break the outline.

Ive found that the fence method works best. It works just as well as the others, but is also reusable. After harvest, simply cut or untie your fence, roll it up and store it with your other supplies until next season.
you don't know deer, they jump those 7ft. okay had them never in my little grow and set was barb wired up to 7ft but we had them always in hay yard and for that the had to jump 8ft high plywood walls to get in:evil:


no shit about that, we finally stoped them by puting 4x4s up with barbwire like a prison wall just to the outside, so the had to jump 9ft and barbwire which was enough, never seen one in after nor found traces:mrgreen:
 

green_nobody

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the best way i've found to repel deer would have to be a 12 gauge shotgun with some 3 inch brenagin rotweiler slugs.......completely positive they won't come back
a well placed .22lr will do the same job without the thunder;) really, within 150ft a .22 is the most accurat bullet and enought for a spinal/head/heart shot which will kill it for sure, you just have to be a good shot;) and .22 is the best to silence, even from a rifle just above speed of sound, pressure in the barrel drops already after 8" since then all powder is burned... .22s are nice stuff!:)
 

green_nobody

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biggietalls.
I concur with your prescription for deer poison. A guaranteed method for no repeat visitors.For black op (stealth) missions nothing beats a bow.
bows are hard to master, even compound bows, toke me a year to master my really in terms to be capable to hit 98% of my shoots on 30 yards but it just toke me a day and 200 rounds to become a great shot with a .22 rifle:mrgreen:
 

Biggietalls

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a well placed .22lr will do the same job without the thunder;) really, within 150ft a .22 is the most accurat bullet and enought for a spinal/head/heart shot which will kill it for sure, you just have to be a good shot;) and .22 is the best to silence, even from a rifle just above speed of sound, pressure in the barrel drops already after 8" since then all powder is burned... .22s are nice stuff!:)
yeah a .22 round will go a hell of alot farther then 150 ft. but once again just too quiet and muzzle loader would do good but it's just one shot I need atleast 5-6 rounds....if a deer was eating my plants i'd want that mother fucker turned into hamburger on site
 

green_nobody

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yeah a .22 round will go a hell of a lot farther then 150 ft. but once again just too quiet and muzzle loader would do good but it's just one shot I need at least 5-6 rounds....if a deer was eating my plants i'd want that mother fucker turned into hamburger on site
sure it does, i shot pop cans from 300yr with my anschutz rife:D and that it is not as loud as other guns is my benefit of it;)

and a muzzleloader be loaded with balls and shot or just smaller balls riding on a caliber sized one and their are side by sides too but they are not cheap:( you could also by a muzzleloader revolver in .44 just a .44mag. with the right load of slow-burning powder a .44mag produces hell of a lot noise and a big ass muzzle flash, and it holds 5-6 rounds;) ruger super blackhawks are nice by the way and they pack the stuff;):D

and to the hamburger again, balls and shot make really a mess with what they hit on short range, nasty!:D
 

Biggietalls

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used to have a .44 mag with a big ass scope on it bought it for 250 had been shot about 5 times but ended up tradeing it in for a camo .22 with a ridiculously high powered rifle scop on it and a 12 gauge with a turkey choke very nice guns
 

mogie

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The fencing suggestion works fine around a dozen plants or so. Deer won't go into a small fenced in space (I am talking like 10 x 10) if they can't easily jump out. Add to that plastic chicken wire over the top held up by stakes and no deer. All of these gun blasts are ways of attracking unwanted attention.
 

Biggietalls

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no just the blowing animals apart thing..........but i guess if your not in a secluded area away from many house's and people then i suppose you shouldnt shoot any guns that way theres no attention attracted.
 

mogie

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Blowing animals apart is fun? Innocent animals gross. Now that children abuser John Couey I will take first shot please.
 

green_nobody

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The fencing suggestion works fine around a dozen plants or so. Deer won't go into a small fenced in space (I am talking like 10 x 10) if they can't easily jump out. Add to that plastic chicken wire over the top held up by stakes and no deer. All of these gun blasts are ways of attracking unwanted attention.
well if you live in the inner city maybe, out where i used to live - no way, my next neighbor was 5 miles away from the grow and 7 from the farm and his kids been shooting squirrels and deer all around the year too:mrgreen:
 

green_nobody

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used to have a .44 mag with a big ass scope on it bought it for 250 had been shot about 5 times but ended up tradeing it in for a camo .22 with a ridiculously high powered rifle scop on it and a 12 gauge with a turkey choke very nice guns
not a bad trade but not the best also if the .22 is a lousy shot, and what type was the 12ga? if it was a remington 870 or better it was not a bad trade after all:)
 

Biggietalls

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not a bad trade but not the best also if the .22 is a lousy shot, and what type was the 12ga? if it was a remington 870 or better it was not a bad trade after all:)
it's a pointer a5 copy semi-auto

and the deer are the same way over here in indiana hell me and my buddies go down a trail not even a 1/2 a mile away from a little town has about 75 ppl max. and play a little game we call "anything that move's" get anything between deer>squirels>birds>rabbit hell well even go for butterflys just b/c fun as hell :-D
 

Otoole

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it's a pointer a5 copy semi-auto

and the deer are the same way over here in indiana hell me and my buddies go down a trail not even a 1/2 a mile away from a little town has about 75 ppl max. and play a little game we call "anything that move's" get anything between deer>squirels>birds>rabbit hell well even go for butterflys just b/c fun as hell :-D

This makes me want to quit smoking, just to get farther away from you.

Just imagine for a moment an alien species landing in your yard and using their superior technology to torture you, just because they can.

I suppose my words are wasted. Go back to dreaming up things Calvin can piss on.
 
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