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Hi all,

I've been hunting squirrels on some game land near me (keyword "hunting," not "finding" or "shooting" - never thought it'd be possible to spend 2 hours in the woods and not see a single squirrel) and wondering if this is proper deer sign or something else like a rabbit. Yes I have very little idea what I'm doing but I'm trying to learn as i get ready for next season. 😅
 

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But yes, deer is correct
 
If you're not seeing ANY living creatures with 4 legs, you're likely on land that has predators.... namely coyotes.

Our farm has them. For the first year ever I went hunting several days this past deer season and saw no critters at all. No squirrels, no turkeys, no deer, no foxes, no wild dogs. Nothing. Zero. Even the birds wouldn't get on the ground long.
 
two fingers said:
If you're not seeing ANY living creatures with 4 legs, you're likely on land that has predators.... namely coyotes.

Our farm has them. For the first year ever I went hunting several days this past deer season and saw no critters at all. No squirrels, no turkeys, no deer, no foxes, no wild dogs. Nothing. Zero. Even the birds wouldn't get on the ground long.
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Interesting. I mean, as the pictures show (and people seem to be confirming), it seems that deer were in the area at least long enough to take a dump. Of course I have no idea how to tell how fresh those droppings were.

I had chocked up the lack of squirrels to it being late winter and most of them being hunted out already or the "smarter ones" that know how to stay out of sight?
 
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jrico59 said:
Interesting. I mean, as the pictures show (and people seem to be confirming), it seems that deer were in the area at least long enough to take a dump. Of course I have no idea how to tell how fresh those droppings were.

I had chocked up the lack of squirrels to it being late winter and most of them being hunted out already or the "smarter ones" that know how to stay out of sight?
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You could be right. I just know that coyotes have moved into our woods. And you can't find a live animal there anymore. It was probably a stretch for me to assume it's the same everywhere.
 
jrico59 said:
Hi all,

I've been hunting squirrels on some game land near me (keyword "hunting," not "finding" or "shooting" - whoever thought it'd be possible to spend 2 hours in the woods and not see a single squirrel) and wondering if this is proper deer sign or something else like a rabbit. Yes I have very little idea what I'm doing but I'm trying to learn as i get ready for next season. 😅
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Nothing to base it on, but could that be Biden or Harris poop?

Stay with it and get that sh*t handled.
 
two fingers said:
You could be right. I just know that coyotes have moved into our woods. And you can't find a live animal there anymore. It was probably a stretch for me to assume it's the same everywhere.
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That sucks. Any idea how many? Can you hunt/trap them away?
 
A man who has always been kinda slow went to a country doctor and said:

"Doc, I aint too smart, can ye help me?"
"Sure can son...gimme a minute."

So the doctor headed out back to the rabbit pen and gathered up about 10 poo pellets and placed them in a pill bottle and headed back inside.

"So heres what ya do, take one of these every mornin, and ever night for 5 days then come on back and see me."

So after a week the man comes back and says:

"Doc, I dont reckon these pills are workin too well...and they taste awful."

So the doc sends him home with 10 more pills. After a 5 days the man returns and says:

"Doc, I just realized these pills here taste like rabbit poop! You done gived me rabbit turds to eat!"
To which the doc replies "See...they appear to be workin, you already smarter than you were!"
 
Hmmm...don’t think I’ve ever heard the term used for this reason:

Due to its size, deer poop has become a term that refers to women with small buttocks because deer poops are small in size. This term is included in Urban Dictionary, an online dictionary of crowd-sourced slang words. Some hunters claim that they can identify the sex of the deer by just looking at the size of their droppings. The reason that the deer’s droppings are small is that of their colon. A deer’s colon works in a rhythm of opening and closing the sphincter. This type of movement results in small and round-shaped pellets.
 
Hey, not sure if anyone has shared yet but that looks eerily like deer poop.

Anywho....good luck hunting!
 
First - congratulations on getting out there! Squirrel hunting is a great way to learn the ropes, and get used to the concept of "being quite" in the woods.

Don't forget that here in NC , we have black bear, and even panthers! A great thing to do is to wear a small set of bells, like they do out west, to scare away the bears.

That also helps with Scat identification for the next hunter. If it's berry like and in small piles, its deer. If it's small "logs" , it could be coyote. If it has bells in it.... it's bear. :)
 
Puddlejockey said:
First - congratulations on getting out there! Squirrel hunting is a great way to learn the ropes, and get used to the concept of "being quite" in the woods.

Don't forget that here in NC , we have black bear, and even panthers! A great thing to do is to wear a small set of bells, like they do out west, to scare away the bears.

That also helps with Scat identification for the next hunter. If it's berry like and in small piles, its deer. If it's small "logs" , it could be coyote. If it has bells in it.... it's bear. :)
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Thanks, still working on getting that hide off without making a mess...they make it look so easy on YouTube.

And I'm in central NC pretty close to Raleigh - surely no bears/panthers here?? :eek: but how does that work with the bells if you need to stay quiet? do you keep them stored somewhere that they don't make sound until you actually need them?
 
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Sorry - the "bells" was actually an old Joke from out West. They used to tell hikers to wear bells to scare off the grizzlies... then they'd tell them if they found scat that looked like berries it was deer, if they found a big pile with hair it was black bear.. and if they found a big pile with bells and boots... it was grizzly. lol...

But yeah - there's a few black bears in the area. I've had NCWildlife guys swear to me there weren't any in Wake.. until I showed them pics of one trashing our feeder just outside Apex.. :)

I used to love fried squirrel nuggets.. yum! ( leg meat)
 
If you is where they is lot's of bears, and you ain't hunting bear, you gonna want to make them bells ring so they can hear them.
Bears are not that curious so they will avoid you. Now a deer might just come and see who in the heck is making all that noise.
By the way, that poop is from Manbearpig, you watch yourself around him. Al Gore can tell you all about him.
 
Puddlejockey said:
Sorry - the "bells" was actually an old Joke from out West. They used to tell hikers to wear bells to scare off the grizzlies... then they'd tell them if they found scat that looked like berries it was deer, if they found a big pile with hair it was black bear.. and if they found a big pile with bells and boots... it was grizzly. lol...

But yeah - there's a few black bears in the area. I've had NCWildlife guys swear to me there weren't any in Wake.. until I showed them pics of one trashing our feeder just outside Apex.. :)

I used to love fried squirrel nuggets.. yum! ( leg meat)
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lmao sorry, I'm lame. I hope I don't run into one when I'm out there with a .22...guess I need to carry a magnum sidearm just in case?
 
Squirrel hunting is hard this time of the year. Look for brushy areas along edge. Try to find some fresh cuttings and sit down and wait. They will have abandoned the open hardwoods by now. And don't worry about bears. i commend you for at least being out there. Good luck.
 
jrico59 said:
lmao sorry, I'm lame. I hope I don't run into one when I'm out there with a .22...guess I need to carry a magnum sidearm just in case?
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Oh heck no... don't sweat the bears. Also- don't pet the bears. All joking aside; blackbears are usually very anti social around people. ( unless they've been trained by trash cans). I've seen bears, wolves ( once) and even Grizzly in other states over the years, while hunting and fishing. If you catch a glimpse of a black bear- count yourself lucky ; change your shorts, and keep hunting. :) The only animals to ever get aggressive, for me, were a pack of semi-feral dogs in Rowan County once...
 
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