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Where do the bucks go every year?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ski" data-source="post: 5809784" data-attributes="member: 20583"><p>You nailed it. Think of a rock concert. The stage is the major food source and surrounding habitat is the arena. Doe groups and fawns take VIP front row every time always. Young bucks get the first affordable seats but still close to the action. Middle age bucks make up the nosebleeds. They're out there and still in it but they're not getting the action the does are getting. Mature bucks aren't even in a seat. He's digging in a dumpster in the back corner of the overflow parking lot across the street. He's around but not anywhere any other deer wants to be. He gets passed up, ignored, and dismissed like a bum and he prefers it that way just like a bum. </p><p></p><p>Mature bucks don't need a lot of food, especially during season months. They also don't need social interaction outside of the act of breeding. He literally exists on the fringes of the herd. Hunting him is nothing like hunting other deer. Hunters like seeing deer when they hunt. He doesn't. Habitat managers like attracting deer to their property. He goes out of his way to avoid other deer. See the conundrum? </p><p></p><p>Furthermore like any groupies following a band, deer follow the food. Food sources are ever shifting and with it so is the arena. Timing matters. Doesn't matter where it's at, the structure will be the same. Every arena is basically set up the same way. Some are big and some are small. But they're structurally the same. Understanding how and when your hunting spot fits into the arena will give you a gage of where to find the old buck. He's there. He's just not with the other deer.</p><p></p><p>Sorry for such an odd analogy but it's the closest thing I could think of to relate how the deer herd works. It's their nature. A doe pushes her yearling buck out and from then on he's pushed further and further out for the rest of his life. His buddies and brothers die off until he's all alone, far off in the peripheral shadows of the herd. Hunting him isn't like hunting other deer. It's not difficult. You just have to hunt where he's at, which quite often is where other deer aren't.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ski, post: 5809784, member: 20583"] You nailed it. Think of a rock concert. The stage is the major food source and surrounding habitat is the arena. Doe groups and fawns take VIP front row every time always. Young bucks get the first affordable seats but still close to the action. Middle age bucks make up the nosebleeds. They're out there and still in it but they're not getting the action the does are getting. Mature bucks aren't even in a seat. He's digging in a dumpster in the back corner of the overflow parking lot across the street. He's around but not anywhere any other deer wants to be. He gets passed up, ignored, and dismissed like a bum and he prefers it that way just like a bum. Mature bucks don't need a lot of food, especially during season months. They also don't need social interaction outside of the act of breeding. He literally exists on the fringes of the herd. Hunting him is nothing like hunting other deer. Hunters like seeing deer when they hunt. He doesn't. Habitat managers like attracting deer to their property. He goes out of his way to avoid other deer. See the conundrum? Furthermore like any groupies following a band, deer follow the food. Food sources are ever shifting and with it so is the arena. Timing matters. Doesn't matter where it's at, the structure will be the same. Every arena is basically set up the same way. Some are big and some are small. But they're structurally the same. Understanding how and when your hunting spot fits into the arena will give you a gage of where to find the old buck. He's there. He's just not with the other deer. Sorry for such an odd analogy but it's the closest thing I could think of to relate how the deer herd works. It's their nature. A doe pushes her yearling buck out and from then on he's pushed further and further out for the rest of his life. His buddies and brothers die off until he's all alone, far off in the peripheral shadows of the herd. Hunting him isn't like hunting other deer. It's not difficult. You just have to hunt where he's at, which quite often is where other deer aren't. [/QUOTE]
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