Bunch of tricks we've used over the years, hunting from all different kinds of stands and distances to the deer groups, for gun or bow.
All worked but sometimes they don't scatter far enough away.
After a few times they get used to each one so we varied the technique.
This is my easiest and I've used it three times already this season when they're under my apple trees.
I made a second one now cause they didn't go far enough the third night
Fill a pop can about 1/4 full of small rocks.
Tape the hole with duct tape and raise the pull tab perpendicular.
Hang the can within easy reach on a smooth twig through the pull tab hole. When ready to leave...
Slide it off the twig carefully and with three fingers under the base, loft it to the center of the deer group.
Practice your toss a few times while on the ground so as to not rattle the can until it hits.
This gives greater distance, Run a line from the blind over limbs, through the trees, and away from your exit area.
Hang a vinyl or cloth tote bag with a drawstring from the end of the line.
Fill the bag with cans and rocks...then set it on the ground.
Slowly pull in the slack on the line to raise the bag, release the line and the bag rattles when it hits the ground.
I got real sophisticated on one of my wife's box blinds.
Ran the line from inside her blind, through pulley's and a screen door spring return, to really crank the sound 40 yards away in the opposite direction...now they look and look that way, instead of at her. LOL.
Even more distance
Another trick we used was an alarm clock.
Place it out in the deer area and set it to go off 15-20 minutes or so after shooting hour.
Another,
We left an old walkie talkie out under a tree. Set the volume high and squelched pretty high also. Keep the second one in your coat pocket.
Push transmit and blow in it a few times and they scatter.
The electronic ingenuity came from hunting this one property 1/2 mile long with 5-6 randomly used escape trails going through it and across the road...
With only 2 guys it seemed we were never overlooking the right trail.
We could see them cross way out of range down the road or saw tracks later.
We finally got the bright idea to set up a couple transistor radios on the unmanned trails.
Tuned them to morning talk show chatter...predictably, the deer didn't use those trails, came through ours instead.
Neighbor and wives laughed at the time, but it worked three years in a row until we moved to different property.
