THE LANDSCAPE OF FEAR paradgm appears to be at play in the Pennsylvania woods everytime deer firearms season commences...........Deer change their habits of where they roam and "hang out" when men are in the woods after them with shotguns and rifles..............Penn State Researchers have documented that while bowhunting season does not seem to "frighten" deer into behaving differently, the sounds of guns in fact do up their vigilance...............Duane Diefenbach who heads up Pennsylvania's Cooperative fish and wildlife research unit states that "“Their behaviors in archery season, there's nothing to suggest these deer are being impacted by the hunting that's going on to any great extent”........... "But once the rifle season begins, we see some pretty dramatic differences"............ "Some of these bucks will leave their home range and go places we've never seen them in the previous 10 months"............ "It's pretty amazing"............They(the deer) change their patterns almost immediately on the Sunday before the opening day of deer season — when hunters enter the woods to check on their stands, make a last scouting trip or burn off the energy of anticipation — and then go back to their normal routine within a day of the season ending".
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