RJM62
Touchdown! Greaser!
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Geek on the Hill
This is why I can't enjoy hunting anymore. Animals like me too much. The deer don't even have the common sense to be afraid of me anymore.
I don't have the heart to shoot something that's too dumb to try to run away.
-Rich
They know you won't shoot so why run away.
It may be phermones or possibly just your body language or even other scents such as the gun. Prey animals have to be fairly aware of their surroundings and what is dangerous and not just to survive.I actually think that's what it is. I think there's pheromonal communication going on, and although we've lost a lot of our sensitivity to incoming pheromonal messages, we still give off pheromones that other animals can interpret.
Maybe Steingar or one of our other biologists knows more about that.
-Rich
How did you do that? Woodland creatures still run away from me despite the fact that taking care of animals is my job.
It may be phermones or possibly just your body language or even other scents such as the gun. Prey animals have to be fairly aware of their surroundings and what is dangerous and not just to survive.
I don't know. But for... I guess the last 15 years or so, animals seem to really "like me," for lack of a better way to put it. Deer, raccoons, skunks, bobcats, coyotes, even the occasional bear.
I once actually had to get out of my car on a narrow mountain road, pick up a fawn by reaching around its belly, turn it around and face it toward the woods, and slap it in the rump to make it get out of my way.
-Rich