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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5022326" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Individual buck behaviors are as varied as individual people. That's why many researchers don't like giving a figure for "average annual home-range size" for bucks. Yes, they can numerically calculate that number. The problem is, no bucks actually have a home-range that size! Some bucks have tiny ranges. Some have massive ranges. And many, many bucks have seasonal ranges within their annual range. For some bucks, these seasonal ranges are traditional. For others, they are not. A buck may choose a different fall-season range every year of his life.</p><p></p><p>What this means for the small-land manager is some bucks will use your property year round, but it will probably be the minority of bucks that use the property at some point over an entire year. Some bucks will only use your property during one or two seasons of the year. And some bucks may only use your property during one or two season just once or twice in their entire lifetimes. All this begs the question of how small-land management can work. But surprisingly, it does. Just a few bucks "saved" here and there makes a difference.</p><p></p><p>DeerCamp, to answer your question specifically, when running cameras for a number of years, be prepared to see some "resident" bucks, some "traditional" range-shifters (bucks that suddenly appear on the property on about the same date each year), and some drifters. The drifters may stay for an entire fall season, or maybe just for the rut, but then they're never seen again. The point being, don't assume that a good buck is dead just because he doesn't appear the next year. Maybe he never shows up again. Maybe he shows up two years from now. I ABSOLUTELY see weird patterns like this when photo-monitoring the same property for many years in a row.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5022326, member: 17"] Individual buck behaviors are as varied as individual people. That's why many researchers don't like giving a figure for "average annual home-range size" for bucks. Yes, they can numerically calculate that number. The problem is, no bucks actually have a home-range that size! Some bucks have tiny ranges. Some have massive ranges. And many, many bucks have seasonal ranges within their annual range. For some bucks, these seasonal ranges are traditional. For others, they are not. A buck may choose a different fall-season range every year of his life. What this means for the small-land manager is some bucks will use your property year round, but it will probably be the minority of bucks that use the property at some point over an entire year. Some bucks will only use your property during one or two seasons of the year. And some bucks may only use your property during one or two season just once or twice in their entire lifetimes. All this begs the question of how small-land management can work. But surprisingly, it does. Just a few bucks "saved" here and there makes a difference. DeerCamp, to answer your question specifically, when running cameras for a number of years, be prepared to see some "resident" bucks, some "traditional" range-shifters (bucks that suddenly appear on the property on about the same date each year), and some drifters. The drifters may stay for an entire fall season, or maybe just for the rut, but then they're never seen again. The point being, don't assume that a good buck is dead just because he doesn't appear the next year. Maybe he never shows up again. Maybe he shows up two years from now. I ABSOLUTELY see weird patterns like this when photo-monitoring the same property for many years in a row. [/QUOTE]
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