Art is correct of course.
Deer, as do all critters, know their habitat.
Something incidentally, humans could learn a lesson from, in how to survive in the real world.
Staying upwind, is the main thing with any critter.
My Mentors never bought into the Marketing hype of camo, scents, and all.
Their take was "don't learn on a crutch, for if you lose that crutch, you will fall down".
Woods Craft Skills, gets back to correct basic fundamentals.
Folks speak of Serious Situation and so what if one was stuck out in the woods, small plane crash, vehicle trouble on a road trip.
The ability to "Survive" is dependent of one's Skill Sets, and if a small plane makes an emergency landing out in the middle of nowhere, knowing how to "hunt" for food might come in handy.
Same skill sets may also come in handy to not be Prey .
You are most likely not going to have your Camo, Scents, and other Equipment.
Farm and Ranch Country, Deer, critters are accustomed to Sights, Scents, and Situations.
Smell of gasoline, diesel fuel , the smell of smoke from a Smoke House, burning brush piles...
Hearing vehicles, such as gas/diesel trucks, tractors, doors opening , closing, tailgates being let down and closed.
Crop Dusters, taking off, landing...
Habitat :
True.
Night firing, tanks, for instance and with all the noise, smoke, smells, HERDs of deer running across the range, between the Tanks and Targets.
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Deer just "used to" all this going on, take note of where the tanks are, downrange target, and take off between them...sometimes just "mosey" across, stop, look around...
Timber : Timber companies with NO Trespassing signs , gates across roads.
Now I had heard the deer, critters get used to Timber Folks being out and doing what all they do.
I was assisting with "tree trimming", instructing the folks that use shotguns to trim trees.
Seriously.
We are dressed in jeans, khakis and regular work clothes, and for Safety Reasons, Safety Vests in Hunter Green, Orange, with the Reflective stripes.
We are making noise, with the trucks, smoking using "butt cans" and sipping coffee and shooting 12 ga shotguns near the truck, and I get tapped on the shoulder and slowly turn my head.
We had six big bucks, just laying on the ground, like hound dawgs on a porch, watching us.
Less than 20 steps away.
Head on down the fire break, check the side view, and a few were just mosey -ed along behind us, to see what we were going to do next.
We had to stop the truck. Turkeys coming down the trail , and we were in Their way.
Just fussing up a storm "get off our trail would you!"
I'm serious, I am standing on the "step up" , and I could have kicked the Turkeys with my foot.
There is a place for "fitting in", and using "common sense".
Like deer hanging around a apple, or pear orchard are going to pick up on some store bought scents.
Smoke, some are used to smoke. They hang "smoke pots" out to keep bugs out, and for Orange groves, these "heaters" (old style) smelled keeping the Oranges from freezing when an unexpected cold snap hit.
Habits , Habitats, and How to's.
One might find themselves in a serious situation, like Katrina, and all you gots is what you have and need meat.