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Odd rut timing western Middle TN?
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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5508874" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Very, VERY interesting observation deerhunter10. As I mentioned, I'm running a study on buck behavior at scrapes, and what you observed is exactly one of the odd things I'm seeing in the data. I keep track of what actions bucks take when they visit a scrape. This year I've never seen so little pawing out the scrape. Everybody was still working the overhanging limb, but lots of bucks - even middle-aged bucks - were not pawing out the scrape. Even have plenty of videos of middle-aged bucks rub-urinating into the scrape, but not actually pawing away the leaves first. That is unusual. In fact, I wonder if hunters in the area were getting fooled. Traditional scrapes not opened. Yet video camera over the scrape shows visits by bucks but they aren't opening the scrape. Now that's not to say scrape visits weren't down. They were WAY down. But lots of times casual inspection of the scrape would leave a hunter believe it wasn't being used at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5508874, member: 17"] Very, VERY interesting observation deerhunter10. As I mentioned, I'm running a study on buck behavior at scrapes, and what you observed is exactly one of the odd things I'm seeing in the data. I keep track of what actions bucks take when they visit a scrape. This year I've never seen so little pawing out the scrape. Everybody was still working the overhanging limb, but lots of bucks - even middle-aged bucks - were not pawing out the scrape. Even have plenty of videos of middle-aged bucks rub-urinating into the scrape, but not actually pawing away the leaves first. That is unusual. In fact, I wonder if hunters in the area were getting fooled. Traditional scrapes not opened. Yet video camera over the scrape shows visits by bucks but they aren't opening the scrape. Now that's not to say scrape visits weren't down. They were WAY down. But lots of times casual inspection of the scrape would leave a hunter believe it wasn't being used at all. [/QUOTE]
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