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<blockquote data-quote="Ski" data-source="post: 5550801" data-attributes="member: 20583"><p>If you're hunting where the does live then yes, your logic could be <em>partially</em> correct. I say partially because every buck in the area will be scent checking does so your odds of seeing one particular buck are likely no higher than seeing a random buck. </p><p></p><p>But if you're hunting where a buck lives, you're not likely to see many deer except the buck who lives there. And when he's home you'll see him everywhere. </p><p></p><p>That said, it's a bit more complex because a given buck will have a particular home range that spans several square miles. By maturity he has already explored the entire area and decided which parameters to stay within. Inside that range he will have many, many cores, smaller areas that he'll live in for anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. He shifts around from core to core for various reasons such as food/browse, looking for girls, evading danger, etc. He may have dozens of cores inside that range. Furthermore, other bucks' ranges overlap his and they have some of their own cores inside his home range. Also inside that range will be many individual/unrelated doe family groups. One of the very few seemingly concrete patterns I've noted over the years is that while two or more mature bucks may have overlapping home ranges and cores, they almost never inhabit a core at the same time during fall. They actually seem to purposely avoid it, and whenever they can't avoid it one of the two has to assert dominance by show of force or sometimes fighting. But for the most part only one mature buck will be living inside one core area at any given time. </p><p></p><p>So when I say a buck lives in a spot, I don't mean he's there 365. He's there only sometimes, and only for a finite amount of time. Like Mega pointed out he's always being pushed out by something, so he's constantly on the move. But for the time he's comfy & well fed & safe, he'll stay. That's his current home. And that's where I hunt & kill him. It's most generally far removed from where I would expect to see a doe. Bucks only like being around does to breed them. And contrary to popular belief, a buck doesn't spend 24/7 searching for does until rut is over. A mature buck knows where the does are, when they'll be hot, and that's when he travels to her or else she comes to him. Otherwise he keeps to himself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ski, post: 5550801, member: 20583"] If you're hunting where the does live then yes, your logic could be [I]partially[/I] correct. I say partially because every buck in the area will be scent checking does so your odds of seeing one particular buck are likely no higher than seeing a random buck. But if you're hunting where a buck lives, you're not likely to see many deer except the buck who lives there. And when he's home you'll see him everywhere. That said, it's a bit more complex because a given buck will have a particular home range that spans several square miles. By maturity he has already explored the entire area and decided which parameters to stay within. Inside that range he will have many, many cores, smaller areas that he'll live in for anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. He shifts around from core to core for various reasons such as food/browse, looking for girls, evading danger, etc. He may have dozens of cores inside that range. Furthermore, other bucks' ranges overlap his and they have some of their own cores inside his home range. Also inside that range will be many individual/unrelated doe family groups. One of the very few seemingly concrete patterns I've noted over the years is that while two or more mature bucks may have overlapping home ranges and cores, they almost never inhabit a core at the same time during fall. They actually seem to purposely avoid it, and whenever they can't avoid it one of the two has to assert dominance by show of force or sometimes fighting. But for the most part only one mature buck will be living inside one core area at any given time. So when I say a buck lives in a spot, I don't mean he's there 365. He's there only sometimes, and only for a finite amount of time. Like Mega pointed out he's always being pushed out by something, so he's constantly on the move. But for the time he's comfy & well fed & safe, he'll stay. That's his current home. And that's where I hunt & kill him. It's most generally far removed from where I would expect to see a doe. Bucks only like being around does to breed them. And contrary to popular belief, a buck doesn't spend 24/7 searching for does until rut is over. A mature buck knows where the does are, when they'll be hot, and that's when he travels to her or else she comes to him. Otherwise he keeps to himself. [/QUOTE]
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