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Why is it they ain't skeered ???

Tractor never tried to kill them.

I've got a little green field I plant at my house. I've had them come out and feed under the feeder while I was bushhogging and never even look up.

Had deer in my back yard while i am in the front yard cutting grass

Heavy equipment in general, doesn't bother deer.

If you have regular tractor activity on your property, it doesn't bother them. Guy that farms hay on our place will come in with a tractor and hay trailer that you can hear clanking two counties over. He sees more deer than anyone. Of course, he's cutting about 100 acres of hay all summer, so the deer see and hear him every single day.

They watch me on it. See a human. and don't give a rip.

The statute of limitation is up for this so I will tell yall. The best and easiest way to get up close and personal with a large body of geese is on a tractor. Just keep riding around them getting closer and closer. You can get right up amongst them and lay out a few good lines of geese. Always best to use a tractor with a FEL so you can pile them in the bucket. You can make a lot of people happy with a loader full of geese. Unfortunately there ain’t enough geese around to be able to do that anymore. I can say I’ve never killed a deer while I was on a tractor. Back when I was farming I dang sure could have. I’ve seen some of the biggest bucks I’ve ever seen in this area while I was on a tractor or combine.

Its because they don’t separate the human from the tractor and see it as two different things……To them it’s one completely different object……Same if a human is riding a horse

Diesel fuel is the best deer lure available

Back when my Dad and I ran a feeder behind his house, deer got so complacent with us walking around, most of the time they wouldn't even look up....until you walked outside with a gun in your hand.

That ain't no lie.

Years ago my buddy was watching a clearcut with some logging equipment in it. A buck stood up and he dropped it. Deer was covered in Diesel.

Most deer I have ever seen on one hunt, was sitting on top of a peanut combine parked in the middle of a newly harvested field. Harvest was late for some reason and deer season was already in. I climbed on top, sat down and watch 50+ deer.

And a side question, what’s up with them on the highway?
Not crossing, just standing there. There’s a feeder on every 40 and these stupid deer stand on the road.
I must have seen 10 on the way home last night on Hwy 17 eating privet on the side of the road in the ditches.

feeding on those state planted right of ways.

Deer ain’t people. They don’t think or reason they just do what they do. Like turkeys and clocks. They on turkey time, not my time.

It ain't just deer hawks , coyotes , bobcats , turkeys etc aint really bothered by them. I've killed several coyotes that was following me around on a tractor

Was discing a plot today that is lined with sawtooths that are dropping acorns. When I pulled up to field there were 2 does under separate trees. They just watched me and kept eating acorns. On the return pass, I got within 20 yds of a doe before she trotted off. They see tractors all the time and don't associate them with danger, obviously

Turkeys are even worse. Pulled up t one of my plots a few years back, big gobbler pecking around the feeder.

I start mowing. As I get close to him, he moves back into the woods. I figure he's gone.

Nope.

I mow past the feeder, turn around, and go to the other end of the field, turn and start back down. Same gobbler at the feeder.

I actually got within 20 yards of him at one point. Close enough to see his spurs, mowing on a tractor.

No, shotgun or don't ask, don't tell?