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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5778670" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Actually, it is this year's bucks that may be being misjudged because of last year's drought. They came through the winter in terrible shape and couldn't put on enough body weight/growth this last summer to look a year older. So if this year's drought has a similar impact, it would show up next year (after the deer have struggled through winter).</p><p></p><p>But I doubt this year's drought will have anywhere near the impact. We had FAR in excess rainfall up until mid-August. Then the spigots turned off. But the spring and midsummer rains were enough many in the area are seeing the biggest acorns crop in years, and summer crops and natural habitat were not seriously impacted. Corn and soybean yields in my area were pretty good (unlike the previous year).</p><p></p><p>Double-counting bucks is always possible, but in most of these instances, either myself or the landowner is running a census that collects thousands, if not tens of thousands of images. Each unique buck may be photographed over 100 times. For me personally, I'm very hesitant to classify a buck as a unique buck until I have multiple pictures of him from multiple angles so I can point out the antler characteristics that make him unique. Even in the censuses I ran in the hardest hit drought areas, I'm coming up with an extraordinary number of 3 1/2 year-old bucks and an unusual lack of 4 1/2 year-old bucks on properties where I've been running censuses for years. However, outside of the worst drought areas, I'm not seeing this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5778670, member: 17"] Actually, it is this year's bucks that may be being misjudged because of last year's drought. They came through the winter in terrible shape and couldn't put on enough body weight/growth this last summer to look a year older. So if this year's drought has a similar impact, it would show up next year (after the deer have struggled through winter). But I doubt this year's drought will have anywhere near the impact. We had FAR in excess rainfall up until mid-August. Then the spigots turned off. But the spring and midsummer rains were enough many in the area are seeing the biggest acorns crop in years, and summer crops and natural habitat were not seriously impacted. Corn and soybean yields in my area were pretty good (unlike the previous year). Double-counting bucks is always possible, but in most of these instances, either myself or the landowner is running a census that collects thousands, if not tens of thousands of images. Each unique buck may be photographed over 100 times. For me personally, I'm very hesitant to classify a buck as a unique buck until I have multiple pictures of him from multiple angles so I can point out the antler characteristics that make him unique. Even in the censuses I ran in the hardest hit drought areas, I'm coming up with an extraordinary number of 3 1/2 year-old bucks and an unusual lack of 4 1/2 year-old bucks on properties where I've been running censuses for years. However, outside of the worst drought areas, I'm not seeing this. [/QUOTE]
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