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Re: deer bedding and party balloons

Unread postby brkissl82 » Tue Feb 19, 2019 12:52 am

headgear wrote:Never found a balloon in bedding area, feeling left out. :lol: But still very interesting observation.


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Re: deer bedding and party balloons

Unread postby Tsom » Tue Feb 19, 2019 2:00 pm

Hmm I think I ran across 3 balloons this last season.... Now if I could just remember where they were :think: ;)
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Re: deer bedding and party balloons

Unread postby Tennhunter3 » Tue Feb 19, 2019 3:39 pm

Twenty Up wrote:Literally saw an old balloon in a staging area yesterday and didn’t think anything of it..

I don’t mean to hijack but where exactly are y’all really noticing these balloons? Swamps, Hill’s etc.


Hillsides are where I see them I found one today in a pine thicket near bedding on a south facing slope.
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Re: deer bedding and party balloons

Unread postby Dewey » Tue Feb 19, 2019 4:10 pm

Here is an older thread. We discussed this before but never made the connection. :think:

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Re: deer bedding and party balloons

Unread postby Motivated » Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:43 pm

Nevermind jawbone or cementum aging... This whole time all we had to do was count the number of birthday party balloons in their bedding area! I never made the connection! :doh:

By the way, medical professionals have now determined that birthdays are good for your health. They discovered that people with more birthdays seem to live longer... :think:

Seriously though on the topic at hand. There is something really smart about the way you were thinking about down drafts and swirling winds. Also people tend to pick up trash in the woods believe it or not. But if people don't go in the thick stuff then those mylar balloons last forever.

I think though that conclusions can be drawn too far with just about anything in life. There's not a huge sample size when people release balloons, so many of these are just random. You would likely have to release thousands and thousands of balloons and then do significant statistical analysis and tons of work to see if there was a connection between where the balloons eventually ended up and these downdrafts or with the buck bedding areas.

Finally, there is something real about observation bias. If you look for something, then you tend to find what you are looking for. Our brains search for patterns, and now many folks who have read this will tend to notice these mylar balloons more frequently, just because they simply read this thread.
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Re: deer bedding and party balloons

Unread postby Dewey » Sun Mar 03, 2019 11:20 am

Just noticed a party balloon in a tree and bed was within 25 yards. :think:

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Re: deer bedding and party balloons

Unread postby Doublejake » Sun Mar 03, 2019 11:23 am

ghoasthunter wrote:i have been noticing something thats kind of funny every time i find good deer bedding i find balloons in the area. i thought about it and its the air currents making a down draft that get the balloons there and its the same reason deer bed in these spots :lol:



When I find a primary Bedding area I let out party Balloons in my head. Lol
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Re: deer bedding and party balloons

Unread postby Buckbreath » Mon Mar 04, 2019 1:38 am

I found a balloon in a bedding area two years ago. I thought it was very weird. It is a VERY remote location, 20 miles from the closest town with hardly any houses or cabins within 15 miles.
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Re: deer bedding and party balloons

Unread postby magicman54494 » Mon Mar 04, 2019 2:45 am

I never made the connection but I find them everywhere.
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Re: deer bedding and party balloons

Unread postby Singing Bridge » Mon Mar 04, 2019 2:52 am

My 2017 buck had a party balloon about 25 feet from his bed. I shot him about 70 yards from the balloon. I have found these balloons in buck bedding areas previously ... never connected the dots.

Uncanny observation !
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Re: deer bedding and party balloons

Unread postby greenhorndave » Mon Mar 04, 2019 3:41 am

Might be total coincidence, but there sure are a lot of coincidences... I just saw one in a tree like Dewey’s not far from bedding. Maybe it was the same balloon :?
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Re: deer bedding and party balloons

Unread postby krent12 » Mon Mar 04, 2019 4:57 am

will be on the lookout!
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Re: deer bedding and party balloons

Unread postby Crazinamatese » Mon Mar 04, 2019 5:20 am

Balloons begin to sink once the helium begins to leak out of them. Sinking thermals??? Coincidence??
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Re: deer bedding and party balloons

Unread postby MN_DeerHunter » Mon Mar 04, 2019 6:00 am

Crazinamatese wrote:Balloons begin to sink once the helium begins to leak out of them. Sinking thermals??? Coincidence??


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Re: deer bedding and party balloons

Unread postby magicman54494 » Mon Mar 04, 2019 2:41 pm

New beast tactic.. place a tracking device on a balloon and hunt wherever it lands.


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