Hookem
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Weight loss plan
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Yessir the rut is hard on a buck.
backyardtndeer
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Pretty amazing the transformation a buck goes through in six months time.
BSK
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Amazing the transformation that takes place during the rut. As I've mentioned before, a mature buck can lose 30% of his body weight during the rut. That's a 200 lb buck at the beginning of the rut coming out 6 weeks later at 140 lbs.
megalomaniac
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And we wonder what happens to mature bucks we pass up... never to be seen again.
I may be in the minority here, but I am typically all about a 200# mature buck early season, but something about the same buck being run down and scrawny looking makes him a lot less desirable to me if I were to see him late season. I suspect I am scrawny and run down at that point in the season as well and just not as mad at them as I was early November. 
