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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5723572" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Here's the older buck scrape visits for 2020 (moderate to poor acorn year), 2021 (bumper acorn year), and 2022 (total acorn crop failure and severe drought). Notice how late and how muted the scraping is in the no acorn/drought year of 2022. Also of interest was the distribution of who was visiting scrapes by age. During the two previous years (2020 and 2021), the majority of scraping visits are middle-aged to mature bucks. Yearling don't visit scrapes anywhere near as frequently as older bucks. This matches the data from Miss. State Deer Labs data. However, in the drought year of 2022, the majority of scrape visits were by yearling bucks. It's as if older bucks simply didn't have the extra energy to work scrapes, hence most visits were by young bucks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5723572, member: 17"] Here's the older buck scrape visits for 2020 (moderate to poor acorn year), 2021 (bumper acorn year), and 2022 (total acorn crop failure and severe drought). Notice how late and how muted the scraping is in the no acorn/drought year of 2022. Also of interest was the distribution of who was visiting scrapes by age. During the two previous years (2020 and 2021), the majority of scraping visits are middle-aged to mature bucks. Yearling don't visit scrapes anywhere near as frequently as older bucks. This matches the data from Miss. State Deer Labs data. However, in the drought year of 2022, the majority of scrape visits were by yearling bucks. It's as if older bucks simply didn't have the extra energy to work scrapes, hence most visits were by young bucks. [/QUOTE]
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