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<blockquote data-quote="Fleet Fox" data-source="post: 4098331" data-attributes="member: 15595"><p>The breeding happens around my place the same time every year. If it's cold, I will see more older bucks during the day. If it's warm, I only see a few. They start making rubs and scrapes the first 2 weeks of November. The mature bucks are caught on camera and seen by me, during the day, between the 8th and the 17th. After that, the scrapes go dead and I might catch a mature buck tailing a doe or doe fawn that hasn't been bred, but it's rare. Normally bucks still run in small groups right up until that point. I will also witness groups of bucks and does feeding together during that time with no interest shown toward breeding, while 500 yards away 4 bucks will be chasing 1 doe around until she can barely stand. Fawn recruitment is the major tool in factoring it. Some bucks don't care to be involved, and some can't get it off their mind. In 7 years of watching it day-to-day, it has been the exact same. It's still not easy to kill the mature ones. I'm usually set up in one spot while they get their picture made in another. I hope the biggest difference this year is me only hunting this farm 3 times during bow season. I didn't want to pressure the does, so I can be more accurate with my guesses on where the bucks will be when it hits. Pressuring and spreading the does only spreads the bucks to have to find them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fleet Fox, post: 4098331, member: 15595"] The breeding happens around my place the same time every year. If it's cold, I will see more older bucks during the day. If it's warm, I only see a few. They start making rubs and scrapes the first 2 weeks of November. The mature bucks are caught on camera and seen by me, during the day, between the 8th and the 17th. After that, the scrapes go dead and I might catch a mature buck tailing a doe or doe fawn that hasn't been bred, but it's rare. Normally bucks still run in small groups right up until that point. I will also witness groups of bucks and does feeding together during that time with no interest shown toward breeding, while 500 yards away 4 bucks will be chasing 1 doe around until she can barely stand. Fawn recruitment is the major tool in factoring it. Some bucks don't care to be involved, and some can't get it off their mind. In 7 years of watching it day-to-day, it has been the exact same. It's still not easy to kill the mature ones. I'm usually set up in one spot while they get their picture made in another. I hope the biggest difference this year is me only hunting this farm 3 times during bow season. I didn't want to pressure the does, so I can be more accurate with my guesses on where the bucks will be when it hits. Pressuring and spreading the does only spreads the bucks to have to find them. [/QUOTE]
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