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In the modern world there are getting to be fewer animals that have little to no exposure to man. Maybe baring Parts of Alaska even in rural areas there's farming ,ranching,oil&gas activities etc.where man invades the habitat regularly. Even in Wyoming we traveled from around Pinedale to Cody and it was obvious that the antelope ,elk and moose we saw, were acclimated to vehicles, livestock and humans.to a more or less degree. It's the same in the east. Given that, what common game animals do you find the spookiest around humans? In my observation baring cats which you rarely see it's the whitetail deer. Even around farms etc they seem to remain cautious and maintain a larger don't approach zone. I don't have much experience with pronghorn or mule deer but elk appear to adjust to humans much more readily than white tails. Hogs also seem to remain fairly furative but it may just be they are more nocturnal and we don't have that many here. What's been your experience?
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Cougar, wolves, and BH rams.
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My votes goes to a mature mulie buck, except during the rut.
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Sasquatch. When was the last time you saw one of them?
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My votes goes to a mature mulie buck, except during the rut. Yep. Especially after the first few hours of the opener.
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Sasquatch. When was the last time you saw one of them? There are lots of them around here. This morning just at daylight there was a flock of them in my back pasture. Or is that a herd? Gaggle? Covey?
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Mature Aoudad Ram, might be a close second to Tanner's Mature Dall Ram I have hunted both and it's a toss up. Rio7
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I'd venture bighorn and pronghorn that have experienced just a little hunting pressure.
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Pronghorn are the most skittish I've seen.
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Big brown bears... I have had Dall sheep rams stand around and watch their buddy get butchered...
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Big whitetail bucks under heavy hunting pressure are the spookiest critters I have ever seen.
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Big brown bears... I have had Dall sheep rams stand around and watch their buddy get butchered... As have I... but I've never seen a "mature" one do it. In my experience it's always been younger rams that were hanging with the older ram that got whacked, and had no idea what to do after. Some of the 8+ year old rams I've hunted seemed to have a 6th sense and the ability to disappear like ghosts when they didn't like what was going on. I would agree that big brown bears are amongst the cagiest animals I've seen and hunted! Tanner
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Public land whitetail that have seen a season or two.
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Whitetails in the Southeast. They get hunted hard.
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