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Does removing an old buck improve retention?
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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 3698935" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Boll Weevil,</p><p></p><p>A couple more thoughts on this topic:</p><p></p><p>First, I have not found that deer respond much to the concept of "the grass being greener" somewhere else, unless that somewhere else is directly adjacent. Deer do not have imaginations. They cannot conceive of the idea that the situation may be better somewhere else unless they already know that other situation already exists, which means an area they already frequent. In addition, this generally only works for static things such as habitat differences between properties. </p><p></p><p>Social structures are far to fluid around the rut for major differences to exist in buck social dynamics from property to property. Bucks move around far too much at that time of year to have static and major differences across extremely short geographic distances. What I'm getting at is rarely will a situation exist where Property A has mature bucks while adjacent Property B does not (unless the two properties are massive, as in several thousands of acres each). Bucks often range thousands of acres during the rut, hence your neighbor most likely has most of the same mature bucks that you have.</p><p></p><p>Lastly, having camera monitored many local deer herds from August through January over a number of years, I do not see a pattern of middle-aged bucks leaving at a greater rate once mature buck populations increase.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 3698935, member: 17"] Boll Weevil, A couple more thoughts on this topic: First, I have not found that deer respond much to the concept of "the grass being greener" somewhere else, unless that somewhere else is directly adjacent. Deer do not have imaginations. They cannot conceive of the idea that the situation may be better somewhere else unless they already know that other situation already exists, which means an area they already frequent. In addition, this generally only works for static things such as habitat differences between properties. Social structures are far to fluid around the rut for major differences to exist in buck social dynamics from property to property. Bucks move around far too much at that time of year to have static and major differences across extremely short geographic distances. What I'm getting at is rarely will a situation exist where Property A has mature bucks while adjacent Property B does not (unless the two properties are massive, as in several thousands of acres each). Bucks often range thousands of acres during the rut, hence your neighbor most likely has most of the same mature bucks that you have. Lastly, having camera monitored many local deer herds from August through January over a number of years, I do not see a pattern of middle-aged bucks leaving at a greater rate once mature buck populations increase. [/QUOTE]
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