What makes a deer snort

Mostly, yes, that is percent spot-on. However, there are other reasons why deer snort, including some you might not have thought about before today. The above video is a neat moment I captured on my cellphone here at home on Sunday. I was turkey hunting with my daughter when we saw a string of whitetails filtering through the woods. The appeared, one by one, in the field we were watching. When they saw our turkey decoys, they immediately headed over for closer inspection.

The big, adult doe to the left was locked on our blind almost the entire time. The damp day only aided in this doe smelling our presence almost immediately. After confirming an odor that she instinctively knew was danger, the doe begins blowing. I shushed her, because I wanted to capture this sound more clearly on the audio. Little did I realize at that very moment was Emily had never seen a deer while it was snorting.

What does a deer snort sound like? Deer often snort out of frustration and anger. I've witnessed them snort at housecats, raccoons and many other smaller mammals we often encounter. Other times, I've watched one deer snort while others appeared unbothered and continued feeding. On one occasion, I spotted a doe snorting and stomping as she stared across a field the opposite direction of where I was located.

I had no idea what had her in a dither, but moments later a buck showed up and approached her. It does appear that during the rut, a buck could be attracted to the sound of a snort, hoping that it will lead him to a doe. It also appears that mood plays a significant role in snorting. Give a Gift Subscriber Services. See All Special Interest Magazines. All Petersen's Bowhunting subscribers now have digital access to their magazine content.

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Coyotes, dogs or anything else that they perceive as a threat. Deer can also snort when concerned. Regardless of why the deer is alarmed, the result may end in an unproductive hunt if your goal is to tag a deer.

Source : Blow or snort all deer, all seasons. The deer forcibly expels air through its nostrils like a greatly magnified sneeze. The deer blows when it detects danger at a distance. Snorts are single, very short, explosive sounds given as the deer turns to run. There may be three reasons for these sounds. The noise warns all deer that something is radically wrong.

The sound may startle a predator into revealing its location or leaving the area. Like some of you reading this article, I can tell you from experience that deer will blow when they see or smell something that is not right. More often than not, it means the deer that you are hunting smell you.

Keeping your scent level down can trick them into believing that you are much further away than they think you are. You want to have very few molecules that smell like you floating around in the air. Get new Buck Manager articles by email it's free! Sonny, both whitetail bucks and does can blow if they see or smell something out of place.

John, what you have written is true. Deer do not always blow, or have to. They have the option to just leave the area, which is often what bucks do. My great Uncle Clifford told me that deer feed down wind, generally, and that deer blow when they cannot smell or identify the cause of their alarm.

Makes sense to me. When deer blow — do they leave urine or any other glandular scents in the area to warn other deer?