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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 3844974" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Just remember that in a decent acorn year, food plots get used much less. The true test will be what happens to the food plots in an acorn failure year, when the food plots may be the only quality food source available.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This is actually quite common. In summer, deer can display sexual segregation, in that females and their young dominate the best habitat, relegating bucks to poorer habitat. From a "survival of the species" viewpoint, it's far more important for the young producers to have access to the best resources. However, as summer fades to fall, this sexual segregation ends as buck bachelor groups break up and bucks return to their fall ranges. For someone monitoring a given property with trail cameras, this usually produces a sudden surge of "new" bucks appearing on camera just after antler velvet shedding.</p><p></p><p>The same properties can then see a second major surge of "new" bucks appearing on cam just before the rut. As the rut approaches, bucks expand the size of their ranges dramatically, most likely to increase the number of doe groups they interact with. And some bucks literally leave their normal fall range and travel to a completely different "rut range," which they will use only during the 5-6 weeks of breeding. This expansion or even shift of range as the rut approaches can produce an astounding number of "new" bucks appearing on camera in the two weeks prior to the commencement of peak breeding.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 3844974, member: 17"] Just remember that in a decent acorn year, food plots get used much less. The true test will be what happens to the food plots in an acorn failure year, when the food plots may be the only quality food source available. This is actually quite common. In summer, deer can display sexual segregation, in that females and their young dominate the best habitat, relegating bucks to poorer habitat. From a "survival of the species" viewpoint, it's far more important for the young producers to have access to the best resources. However, as summer fades to fall, this sexual segregation ends as buck bachelor groups break up and bucks return to their fall ranges. For someone monitoring a given property with trail cameras, this usually produces a sudden surge of "new" bucks appearing on camera just after antler velvet shedding. The same properties can then see a second major surge of "new" bucks appearing on cam just before the rut. As the rut approaches, bucks expand the size of their ranges dramatically, most likely to increase the number of doe groups they interact with. And some bucks literally leave their normal fall range and travel to a completely different "rut range," which they will use only during the 5-6 weeks of breeding. This expansion or even shift of range as the rut approaches can produce an astounding number of "new" bucks appearing on camera in the two weeks prior to the commencement of peak breeding. [/QUOTE]
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