Welcome from Maryland. I find 30-06 tend to keep the deer population down around here............j/k (not really). I have a deer group...20-30 deer..that sleep in my front field here (5 acres) all fall and winter. I put ghost peppers in there in the spring (60-70 plants), and as soon as I start getting green peppers....they disappear. I always think they don't like the smell of bhuts, but they may just be into the corn growing down the road this time of year...