Noisy gates — do you care?

[Turkish]

I own two pieces of property. Where I live is a little over 300 acres and you can get a mile away from even a seldom used gravel road. I also own 62 acres that borders a busy US highway. I killed my biggest buck, by far, with my back touching the bottom of the highway fill. The deer a mile from a gravel road act no more or less alert than the deer 50 yards from the US Highway. What is interesting to me, is where I hunt by the US Highway, the deer do not look towards the highway nearly as much as they do back into the woods. It is like they dont expect danger from the highway. No doubt about it, the highway makes for a noisy hunt

Without a doubt road noise is helpful to hunters. My disdain for it has nothing to do with hunting, though.

 

[b116757]

One of my farms borders a 4 lane interstate it’s very loud right next to the interstate fence but the deer use that area a fair amount and don’t seem to be bothered by the noise. I do have a creek that somewhat parallels the high way with a 30’ drop to the creek bottom at the creek bottom you can hardly even hear any traffic at all. It’s amazing the difference.