How High Can a Whitetail Jump?

[blackwidowp61]

This is what they need for hog control down south! May not be able to eat them after..

 

[Brians356]

Animals hit hard by a good bullet, can and will do some very strange things indeed! I have seen a few doozies myself!

Probably others besides me have seen a quail with a "golden BB" through the brain zoom straight up, climb, stall, hover a moment, fall off and come down still flapping. Like the proverbial headless chicken.
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[Brians356]

Well if you have moose in your they don't jump over the fence they just knock them down

The moose is the most dangerous beast in the woods where there ain't grizzly bears. You don't want to argue with one, and they like to argue.
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[1lnbrdg]

Amazing at what they can do. I've also seen them swim Redbank creek during flood stage in the spring . They cross it like it's nothing .

i know, not a jump issue but these critters are amazing . . . .

I was working at Moscow, OH on a coal barge unloader, Ohio River. We watched a buck swim across the river there, over a mile wide. Buck was good enough that you could see brush on top of his head when he came out on the other side. I don't know if it was the current or the point he was swimming to but either way, he came out of the river about a mile west of where he went in.

 

[Larryh128]

I was driving in Idaho a few weeks ago and saw an extraordinary event. You know those drivers who drive way too slow until you get to a passing lane, and then they take off like a bullet so you can't pass? It was one of those situations where 4 cars didn't quite make it past the lead car, so they were all bunched up together at the top of the hill when the lanes merged. I stayed a ways back, waiting for some type of collision

Unbeknownst to any of us, there was a good-sized buck in the woods next to the merging lanes, and he was running for his life. He leaped over the guard rail into traffic just as the last two cars arrived, and I hit the brakes. No sooner had the buck landed when he jumped again to avoid getting hit. Without any momentum and going slightly uphill, that buck cleared a newer model VW beetle going at least 60 MPH and landed on the other side unscathed. There was at least two feet of daylight between the buck and the roof of the car. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't believe it.

I was thinking of putting up a 10-foot fence around my future garden and orchard to keep the deer out. Now I'm thinking that might not be tall enough.

10 ft is considered deer proof. An 8 ft fence will stop MOST deer but not all.

 

[Intheshop]

3-400 lb Black bears will give a deer a race going up steep grades too. They impress me more than deer. They don't have the long graceful bounds that deer exhibit but,holy moly they're fast.

 

[Immike]

i know, not a jump issue but these critters are amazing . . . .

I was working at Moscow, OH on a coal barge unloader, Ohio River. We watched a buck swim across the river there, over a mile wide. Buck was good enough that you could see brush on top of his head when he came out on the other side. I don't know if it was the current or the point he was swimming to but either way, he came out of the river about a mile west of where he went in.

We’ve caught them swimming across the lake at a 3 mile wide area several times now. Can’t believe they would jump in at the widest spot on the lake but they go right across like it was nothing.

 

[savagedasher]

We had stump fences in Michigan . They were 8’ tall and the could clear them .

 

[Iowa Fox]

10 ft is considered deer proof. An 8 ft fence will stop MOST deer but not all.

We are overloaded with the stinking things here and have an 8' fence around the garden. Every now and then one makes it over. Once they get in they really tear things up trying to get back out. Sometimes they don't quite make it over and come down on the fence with full body weight smashing it flat to the ground, then they all get in.

 

[clunker]

As the OP . . . Just to recap.

8 foot fence is probably not enough. 10 foot fence might be enough. No fence is enough if moose are hungry.

Guess I should build a wall!

 

[rjtfroggy]

8 foot fence is probably not enough. 10 foot fence might be enough. No fence is enough if moose are hungry.

Guess I should build a wall!

And the Moose will pay for it.