#2146553 - 11/04/10 06:26 AM
Buck in tow?
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A.K.A.
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Let a spike pass yesterday and another earlier in the year. How far back (in distance or time) would the following buck be, given there is one?
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#2146555 - 11/04/10 06:31 AM
Re: Buck in tow?
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KENBOB10
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I take that you mean following a doe? If so I've seen them be 5 minutes behind before. I too had a spike following a doe the other evening and he was around 3 minutes behind her. He was in her footsteps when he came through. I would guess if a buck is traveling and he came up on a hot trail of a doe he could be a lot of minutes behind her.
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#2146557 - 11/04/10 06:32 AM
Re: Buck in tow?
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lungpuncher1
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I think it would just be shear luck or just by happening that a larger buck be behind a spike this time of year, But if your asking about a doe then i think it really varies alot. just wait, it could be 1 second or 1 hour.
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#2146605 - 11/04/10 07:02 AM
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I've seen bucks trailing does as far back as 15 to 30 minutes before.
Sometimes a buck will come across her track later in the day and come down the same trail tracking her....maybe hours later.
That's been my experiences.
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#2146651 - 11/04/10 07:37 AM
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A.K.A.
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I take that you mean following a doe? If so I've seen them be 5 minutes behind before. I too had a spike following a doe the other evening and he was around 3 minutes behind her. He was in her footsteps when he came through. I would guess if a buck is traveling and he came up on a hot trail of a doe he could be a lot of minutes behind her.
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#2146708 - 11/04/10 08:08 AM
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A.K.A.,
During the build-up to the rut, what some hunters call the "pre-rut," young bucks will pester the crap out of any doe they encounter. These young bucks are "feeling their oats" yet don't have the experience to know what does to expend energy on and which to ignore. In the flat-out chases through the woods and through open fields that often result from this young-buck pestering, older bucks will sometimes follow in the wake, and sometimes they can be several minutes behind--only close enough to listen to the chase and not actually see the chase.
Now as the true rut arrives and does actually enter estrus, the roles are reversed, and the older buck does the close following of the doe (part of the ritualized "mating dance") while young bucks follow in tow.
I killed my oldest buck in early November as he was following behind a yearling buck that was flat-out chasing a non-estrus doe. The yearling buck and doe (with her tongue hanging out and running scared) went round and round under my tree, only to take the chase off into the distance. Once they were out of sight, I only had time to settle back into my stand and reach into my pocket for a snack when I heard what sounded like a mule plodding up the same trail the yearling buck and doe had come running up. The 6 1/2+ year-old buck was follow at a distance, just keeping tabs on the chase but not participating in it.
I also killed a really top-end 3 1/2 year-old 10-point buck that was involved in an estrus doe chase, however, this was the ritualistic "mating dance" type chase. The doe was definitely in estrus and ready. Behind that big buck followed a 2 1/2 year-old 10-point and behind him a forkhorn yearling.
One of the hunters on my place, just as the rut kicked off, observed an estrus doe being followed by a train of 7 bucks!
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#2146716 - 11/04/10 08:12 AM
Re: Buck in tow?
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A.K.A.
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Thanks BSK. Can't remember where I had heard that before. It was probably off TV and I do get my facts mixed sometimes.
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