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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5463464" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Depends on the year and the acorn crop. When deer have access to a rich source of high energy foods, they have energy to burn. They literally make a lot more rubs and scrapes because they have so much more excess internal resources. Quite a few studies on this. In an acorn-driven herd, rubbing and scraping behavior is <strong>heavily</strong> influenced by quantity/quality of the acorn crop.</p><p></p><p>So in big acorn years, bucks will start scraping in September. Yet the rut doesn't change. However, in a poor acorn year, with limited resources, bucks may not start scraping until mid-October, even though again, peak dates of rut don't change.</p><p></p><p>What I'm getting at is the start of scraping activity is more driven by food resources rather than rut timing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5463464, member: 17"] Depends on the year and the acorn crop. When deer have access to a rich source of high energy foods, they have energy to burn. They literally make a lot more rubs and scrapes because they have so much more excess internal resources. Quite a few studies on this. In an acorn-driven herd, rubbing and scraping behavior is [B]heavily[/B] influenced by quantity/quality of the acorn crop. So in big acorn years, bucks will start scraping in September. Yet the rut doesn't change. However, in a poor acorn year, with limited resources, bucks may not start scraping until mid-October, even though again, peak dates of rut don't change. What I'm getting at is the start of scraping activity is more driven by food resources rather than rut timing. [/QUOTE]
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