#1736642 - 01/20/10 01:16 PM
Question about identification
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TLRanger
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I have noticed that several people on this forum have the ability to recognize a certain buck from the time he has buttons until he is five or six years old. I can't. I would like some pointers on how to be sure it is the same buck from year to year. I can recognize certain deer from year to year because of some significant feature such as an albino but other than that, I am at a total loss. Any help is appreciated.
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#1736652 - 01/20/10 01:25 PM
Re: Question about identification
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tndrbstr
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I generaly don't even try....The biggest advantage in my opinion is haveing sole control on enough acerage that you have the luxury of being able to learn and get farmiliar with particular deer to begin with...so that right there cuts a lot of us... I know it does me...
Many very sutle antler caracteristics are consistant from one year to the next on bucks, combine that with any unique physical abnormalitys.... Deer are individuals, they have quirks just like people...
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#1736726 - 01/20/10 02:23 PM
Re: Question about identification
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For me, there is only one way. That is to see that particular deer on almost a daily basis. Some deer have distinctive markings or mannerisms. But you have to see them regularly. I have a few deer that are in my yard almost daily or nightly. It is like a pet dog, you just learn to recognize them.
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#1736771 - 01/20/10 02:47 PM
Re: Question about identification
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BSK
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I have noticed that several people on this forum have the ability to recognize a certain buck from the time he has buttons until he is five or six years old. I can't. I would like some pointers on how to be sure it is the same buck from year to year. I can recognize certain deer from year to year because of some significant feature such as an albino but other than that, I am at a total loss. Any help is appreciated.
I certainly can't do it from buttons until maturity unless that deer has some very unique body marking.
In addition, I would probably never be able to follow a particular deer without trail-cameras. When hunting you may only have a few seconds to look at a deer. Unless that deer has some extremely obvious characteristic to follow from year to year, I can't imagine being able to do so.
Now some have the chance to "glass" bucks in open fields during the summer. That would certainly increase the possibility of identifying individual bucks from year to year.
The only way I can follow some bucks is through trail-cameras. You can sit and look at pictures for hours. Often you don't notice some identifying characteristic on a buck from one year to the next until you've looked at pictures for months. Heck, there have been times I didn't realized I had the same buck on camera from one year to the next until years afterwards (stumbled across the connection while reviewing old trail-cam pictures for a completely different reason).
But for those bucks I can follow, on rare occassion it is due to a unique body marking, usually differences in the shape/size of the black "chin-strap" deer have around their lower jaw just behind their noses. Some bucks have very unique chin-strap markings. But most often, I can follow a buck from year to year by antler shape characteristics. From 2 1/2 years of age onward, most bucks have similarities in the shape and configuration of their antlers. The big problem with using antlers is the difference in shape from yearling to 2 1/2 year-olds. A buck's rack as a yearling often has no relationship what-so-ever with his antlers later on in life. Without unique body markings, how could a yearling spike be linked to a 2 1/2 year-old 8-pointer?
So for bucks from 2 1/2+, I can often identify the same buck as he advances in age, primarily by his antlers.
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#1736777 - 01/20/10 02:54 PM
Re: Question about identification
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AlabamaSwamper
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Good example
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#1736780 - 01/20/10 02:56 PM
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#1736784 - 01/20/10 02:59 PM
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Edited by AlabamaSwamper (01/20/10 03:01 PM)
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#1736789 - 01/20/10 03:02 PM
Re: Question about identification
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