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heavy avtivity near deer

So I'm relocating to a new place and have had cameras out for a while. Some nice bucks and decent numbers of deer on a property hat has never been hunted. Only problem is that a house is being built on site starting Sept 1st. This includes 1 acre lot clearing and all work to build a house. The deer route I have them are about 75 yrds from the build area. Is it even worth hunting the area?

How many acres do you have to hunt in this new area?

And I would hunt it. But only until the morning activity starts. Same in the afternoon....hunt after they finish work. But if you have lots of acreage go hunt deeper in.

If it starts September 1st u will have two weeks of camera activity to see if it bothers them or not. My experience is that it probably changes their times a little but they will get used to it. Prob ok to hunt mornings early catch them first light or late afternoon last shooting hour .

I agree with rob being a builder I've seen this many times and by the time we would roll up on the job site for 7:00am deer would be there then scatter after a whole they would just stare us down till we got out of the truck they will still be around just go early and late

I have a guy 2 properties up from toyland that's killing me..been doing excavation work on his property at all hours on week ends and when he gets home from work for 3 months now..sightings are way down and most of the pics I have are at night..i hope he stops soon but I agree with rob and hearshot..once they get used to the compressor and nail guns itll be no problem.. I used to hold back the safety on the nail guns and take a shot at deer

Did you nail them?

lmao,.shouldve used a framing gun not a roofing one

I had a similar situation and the deer moved down the trail even with construction going on. Had a group of four walk by and got one.

logging does not bother them too much....

Site clearing starts Thursday. About 1.5 acre cleared. Stand was placed about 75 yrds from site clearing. From there all the other stuff. Excavation foundation etc.

In my experience deer come to chainsaw noise.They get to eat the tips of branches that were out of reach .when I cleared my building lot deer were in the piles of branches every night.When driving in they didn't want to leave they wouldn't move till the truck doors openned.

I'm taking my chainsaw in the woods this year. Do I use it with the grunt call or by itself :)

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