ORIGINAL: shed33
ORIGINAL: Schultzy
Question for ya Troy. I believe a buck in the farm country I hunt in has his safe zone he goes to when the tough gets going (hunting pressure). I've got neighbors a mile away who see's the same buck I do the very next night on his camera during the rut. Never does he see this same buck I'm talking about in September or early October, only I see him on camera. Just in Late October or early November is when he see's him on camera. It seems once the rut kicks in the small core areas everyone talks about is kinda out the window if you ask me. I think there core area expands allot during the rut unless obviously they have a hot doe in the woods there in. Am I way off thinking like this?
What kind of predators do your deer deal with on a yearly basis?
We have our fair share coyotes and running dogs.
ORIGINAL: shed33
Steve I often wonder in your areas where you have so many does and concentrated food sources...so close to a bucks core area if he can breed all night and get back to his core area over and over, doing most of his work under the cover of darkness??? Is your neighbor getting him on film at night or during the day too?
With as many doe's as we have I could see them staying in there core area breeding all night, that makes sense! The neighbor seems to get him on film more so at night then in the day. Its more at night with my camera also.
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Does this buck your referring too.. always come back and show up on your cameras in DEC? Is he around this same area in the summer once you can distinguish his antlers and tell its him?
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This year yes. We had him on camera heading out of our 130 acre woods about 4:00 AM just like usual. This is my first year using these cameras so I can't say for sure what has happened the previous year. It seems like in the summer months to about the middle of October the woods I hunt is full of these dandy bucks but once the rut kicks in our sightings are cut in half if were lucky. I know there patterns change as the seasons change. The crops coming out, the hunting pressure heats up, they get more into there fall and winter patterns, etc. I guess these camera's don't lie, they do seem to travel more. I think there core area is bigger then one thinks or maybe I should say there range is.