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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5495098" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Again, great questions I don't have answers for. I personally don't believe all the older bucks are dead. I would have been getting reports of lots of deer found dead (like in a big EHD outbreak). In fact, I seriously worried about that with our drought conditions and heat this summer, but calls to all my clients asking them to look for EHD victims came up basically zero.</p><p></p><p>I think it is a combination of older bucks not range-expanding as much as well as the lack of scraping behavior. Many camera users place cameras on scrapes to get an idea of what is on their property. With the lack of scraping activity, this may produce a skewed perspective/census. I too place cameras at many types of set-ups other than scrapes, and it's amazing how a couple of bucks - even our oldest bucks - have only been captured on camera at these non-scrape set-ups, or only captured in the background of a scrape set-up. And for the first year in <strong>MANY</strong> years, this year I killed a buck that had not been previously photographed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5495098, member: 17"] Again, great questions I don't have answers for. I personally don't believe all the older bucks are dead. I would have been getting reports of lots of deer found dead (like in a big EHD outbreak). In fact, I seriously worried about that with our drought conditions and heat this summer, but calls to all my clients asking them to look for EHD victims came up basically zero. I think it is a combination of older bucks not range-expanding as much as well as the lack of scraping behavior. Many camera users place cameras on scrapes to get an idea of what is on their property. With the lack of scraping activity, this may produce a skewed perspective/census. I too place cameras at many types of set-ups other than scrapes, and it's amazing how a couple of bucks - even our oldest bucks - have only been captured on camera at these non-scrape set-ups, or only captured in the background of a scrape set-up. And for the first year in [B]MANY[/B] years, this year I killed a buck that had not been previously photographed. [/QUOTE]
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