How far do you think a deer can see? If your in a tree or on the ground with some cover. How far away do you think a deer can spot you? If your not sky lined. What do you think their vision of sight is?
So you would think 300yrds sky lit they could see you no problem. Let's say 200yrds in a tree with back cover? How much movement can you get away with you think?No doubt they can see several hundred yards. I often have deer in my fields on my side of the road/vally and I watch them key in on hunters walking through the neighbor's fields 20-300 yards away.
And im 99% certain that we get sky lighted from longer ranges far more than we realize, especially in hilly terrain. I've seen it with my own eyes. Set up in a stand, and I catch movement a couple hundred yards above me on the ridge. Only to realize it's a guy in a tree. Sight angles are huge when we choose our trees. Sometimes it doesn't matter depending on our back cover in relation to where we expect deer to be. But in general, and in hilly country. Deer down slope from us are in a good position to sky light us. Camo patterns can be another aspect to this conversation .
Loaded questions.So you would think 300yrds sky lit they could see you no problem. Let's say 200yrds in a tree with back cover? How much movement can you get away with you think?
This is absolute truth. It wasn't legal to hunt elevated in Michigan at all until the late 1960's, maybe even 1970. The deer just didn't have to deal with danger from above. They never looked up. It was a great time to be a bow hunter.30 or 40 years ago deer didn't look up. You could climb 12 feet up a telephone pole and deer paid no attention to that blob in the tree.
It was 2000 before elevated firearm hunting was adopted but between approx. 1970 and then archery hunters were allowed to hunt elevated. I started bowhunting in 1974 and in those days, because nobody hunted elevated, there were very few treestand/climbing stick options available.1992 was the first and only time I hunted Michigan (Sanillac County). I was told you couldn’t use a stand to climb a tree and gun hunt. They all hunted from what was basically an ice fishing shack drug lit to the woods. That wasn’t for me, but I was a guest so I went where I was told. Wound up sitting on a stack of telephone poles waiting to be turned I to corner posts and damned near froze my butt off.
They all left around 0930 so I eased into the woods (where none of them hunted) and started looking around. Found a spot where a giant tree had called and taken down a section of fence and, of course, there was a nice crossing there. I walked up the trunk and found me a suitable perch.
I had a steady flow of deer the rest of the day and not a one saw me or even looked up. Killed a decent buck late that evening after seeing 20+ deer.
Saw your sticks, wow. What sticks? Do you thing doing some camo covering would have helped?Ill never forget the opening day of bow season I hung a tree stand that afternoon and hunted it. Had a buck come in about 40 yards and he saw the sticks. Watched his head follow them up the tree to me. He turned and cautiously walked away. Unfortunately for him he walked away at about 20 yards.
But that has stuck with me. He saw the sticks.
A few times I have had bucks 180 + yards away across a field. I can't tell if they are looking at me, or just scanning the field. Not sure how much movement I can get away with. Probably less than I think is the answer. I should video tape what it looks like. Might get me a better idea.
Might depend on what else there is to look at out there.
I think it was a cheap climbing ladder. So it was that kinda blueish tint. Nothing fancy.Saw your sticks, wow. What sticks? Do you thing doing some camo covering would have helped?