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<blockquote data-quote="Dean Parisian" data-source="post: 5633274" data-attributes="member: 1011"><p>To augment that point, I remember looking at telemetry studies on rutting mule deer once showing that the average buck deer traveled 15 miles a night during the rut. Not certain what telemetry studies in TN of free-ranging whitetails, if there are any, have shown for travel routes. Of course a big buck, in a big hayfield of large doe groups doesn't have to leave every night. On a rainy Saturday afternoon on the Cumberland Plateau I will relate an unfortunate story I know that happened years ago near my ranch in Montana. A few years earlier a new neighbor had purchased some beautiful river ground and nice corn fields from a friend and was diligently trying to "grow" big antlers. He had a buck that had great promise, had passed him every year and had his shed antlers from a couple of years. He was going to be a monster. Season opens, a young man, early 20's, come out from Billings to hunt at his grandmothers place, just a little patch of timber. The young lad was having breakfast, looks out the back window, sees this huge toad with his nose up the tail of little fawn doe. Never in 364 days of the year would that big buck been on that piece of ground next to that house. The kid opened the door, took aim and dropped a buck of a lifetime. Timing folks. Luck and timing. The magic of the rut. Anything is possible, you can't kill 'em on the couch!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dean Parisian, post: 5633274, member: 1011"] To augment that point, I remember looking at telemetry studies on rutting mule deer once showing that the average buck deer traveled 15 miles a night during the rut. Not certain what telemetry studies in TN of free-ranging whitetails, if there are any, have shown for travel routes. Of course a big buck, in a big hayfield of large doe groups doesn't have to leave every night. On a rainy Saturday afternoon on the Cumberland Plateau I will relate an unfortunate story I know that happened years ago near my ranch in Montana. A few years earlier a new neighbor had purchased some beautiful river ground and nice corn fields from a friend and was diligently trying to "grow" big antlers. He had a buck that had great promise, had passed him every year and had his shed antlers from a couple of years. He was going to be a monster. Season opens, a young man, early 20's, come out from Billings to hunt at his grandmothers place, just a little patch of timber. The young lad was having breakfast, looks out the back window, sees this huge toad with his nose up the tail of little fawn doe. Never in 364 days of the year would that big buck been on that piece of ground next to that house. The kid opened the door, took aim and dropped a buck of a lifetime. Timing folks. Luck and timing. The magic of the rut. Anything is possible, you can't kill 'em on the couch! [/QUOTE]
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