Deer Ducking Arrow.
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Even though I'm a hunter, I also enjoy simply setting & watching animals just as much.
What really turned me on to the arrow quietness theory is from watching deer, and how they react to birds flying in toward them, or closely by over them.
The deer often hear the birds coming at them, and they duck just like they do when we shoot an arrow at them.
A friend of mine, and I also started playing sound games with the deer, then comparing notes of what we were seeing when we did.
We would actually clack things together "loudly" to see what reactions we would get from them.
We seriously were making clanking clacking sounds much louder than even the loudest of bow shots.
While those sounds definitely got the deer's attention, they seldom did anything other than just look toward the direction of the sound. The closer they were the more earnest they were in their attention to the sound, and they might "violently flinch", but they seldom ducked. They just looked our way, and we conducted those tests from as close as 10 yards
That prompted me to start paying attention to the noise of my arrows in flight, and I quickly noticed, that the quieter my arrows were, the less the deer ducked, AND consequently the more success I started having with my shots.
Deer don't see well at all, but their hearing is phenomenal (to put it mildly).
There is no doubt in my mind, that they hear the arrow coming toward them long before it gets there,
and the quieter the arrow is in flight, the less likely the deer are to duck, and/or otherwise move.
Rick
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Even though I'm a hunter, I also enjoy simply setting & watching animals just as much.
What really turned me on to the arrow quietness theory is from watching deer, and how they react to birds flying in toward them, or closely by over them.
The deer often hear the birds coming at them, and they duck just like they do when we shoot an arrow at them.
A friend of mine, and I also started playing sound games with the deer, then comparing notes of what we were seeing when we did.
We would actually clack things together "loudly" to see what reactions we would get from them.
We seriously were making clanking clacking sounds much louder than even the loudest of bow shots.
While those sounds definitely got the deer's attention, they seldom did anything other than just look toward the direction of the sound. The closer they were the more earnest they were in their attention to the sound, and they might "violently flinch", but they seldom ducked. They just looked our way, and we conducted those tests from as close as 10 yards
That prompted me to start paying attention to the noise of my arrows in flight, and I quickly noticed, that the quieter my arrows were, the less the deer ducked, AND consequently the more success I started having with my shots.
Deer don't see well at all, but their hearing is phenomenal (to put it mildly).
There is no doubt in my mind, that they hear the arrow coming toward them long before it gets there,
and the quieter the arrow is in flight, the less likely the deer are to duck, and/or otherwise move.
Rick
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