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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5022270" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Although it was all the rage to conduct late summer baited censuses in the past, I no longer do so on smaller properties (a couple hundred acres). The reason is seasonal range-shifting by bucks. It is VERY common for older bucks to spend their summers in a bachelor group far from where they will spend the fall season (hunting season). What happens is, landowners run a late summer (August) census, and then expect those bucks photographed to be there during the hunting season. Perhaps that occurs, but often it does not. Once the bachelor group breaks up right around velvet shedding, those bucks may travel several miles to a different fall-season range. And this pattern is usually traditional, in that these bucks use the same collective summer range and same distant fall ranges year after year.</p><p></p><p>The purpose of a camera census is to establish what the "manageable population" is. That would be the deer that use the property during the hunting season. Often, a late summer census doesn't measure that at all. It just measures the summer population, which can be VERY different than the fall population. I've seen smaller properties display a near 100% turnover in deer from summer to fall.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5022270, member: 17"] Although it was all the rage to conduct late summer baited censuses in the past, I no longer do so on smaller properties (a couple hundred acres). The reason is seasonal range-shifting by bucks. It is VERY common for older bucks to spend their summers in a bachelor group far from where they will spend the fall season (hunting season). What happens is, landowners run a late summer (August) census, and then expect those bucks photographed to be there during the hunting season. Perhaps that occurs, but often it does not. Once the bachelor group breaks up right around velvet shedding, those bucks may travel several miles to a different fall-season range. And this pattern is usually traditional, in that these bucks use the same collective summer range and same distant fall ranges year after year. The purpose of a camera census is to establish what the "manageable population" is. That would be the deer that use the property during the hunting season. Often, a late summer census doesn't measure that at all. It just measures the summer population, which can be VERY different than the fall population. I've seen smaller properties display a near 100% turnover in deer from summer to fall. [/QUOTE]
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