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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5267940" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>I'm in the midst of a fairly massive project I've been wanting to do for years. I'm going back through all of my tens of thousands of trail-camera pictures collected over 20 years and looking at the date and times of every buck scrape visit. I'm also looking at the "behaviors" at each visit (working the overhanging limb, actually reopening the scrape [scraping the ground], etc.). I'm only through one year, but I did notice something very interesting. Looking at the behaviors, it is VERY rare for yearling bucks to actually work/reopen an existing scrape. They usually work the overhanging limb, and will urinate in an existing scrape, but they rarely paw out the scrape. Scraping the ground is very much limited to older bucks. In fact, the older the buck, the more likely he will work the scrape.</p><p></p><p>Now this observation may be heavily influenced by the local herd dynamics. The local population has an advanced buck age structure (8-10% mature bucks). Perhaps if few older bucks existed, yearling bucks would more actively participate in scrape-making. I remember way back before we started QDM, and our buck population heavily favored yearlings, I watched yearling bucks work scrapes pretty frequently.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5267940, member: 17"] I'm in the midst of a fairly massive project I've been wanting to do for years. I'm going back through all of my tens of thousands of trail-camera pictures collected over 20 years and looking at the date and times of every buck scrape visit. I'm also looking at the "behaviors" at each visit (working the overhanging limb, actually reopening the scrape [scraping the ground], etc.). I'm only through one year, but I did notice something very interesting. Looking at the behaviors, it is VERY rare for yearling bucks to actually work/reopen an existing scrape. They usually work the overhanging limb, and will urinate in an existing scrape, but they rarely paw out the scrape. Scraping the ground is very much limited to older bucks. In fact, the older the buck, the more likely he will work the scrape. Now this observation may be heavily influenced by the local herd dynamics. The local population has an advanced buck age structure (8-10% mature bucks). Perhaps if few older bucks existed, yearling bucks would more actively participate in scrape-making. I remember way back before we started QDM, and our buck population heavily favored yearlings, I watched yearling bucks work scrapes pretty frequently. [/QUOTE]
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