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Old 07-18-2008 | 06:45 AM
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Default RE: Hey Duke....More "Home Range" fodder

I agree they keep a very small core area for most of the year except for hunting pressure and the rut.
Late season they may move that core area due to changing food sources,limited availability and weather conditions.
Back in 92 the BIG ONE I missed kept his bedding area in the front yard next to the farm I hunted.
She has part of the yard mowed but the rest about 100 feet was just tall weeds with one small thick bushy area.
That 180+ buck daily about 1 pm would track the backside of her house come around the corner to the back yard get a
sip of water. Then head back behind this small farm in a meadow and fill his gut and then head back to bed.
The farmer told me he would do this about 3xa day and you can tell by the trail thats all this pig did.
I also witnessed this many more times with other bucks when I lived in the Illinois (Zoo ).
This is why bucks get that arch and gut as they dont have to move much and many live
right close to dwellings it seems in my experiences. Safe havens I think they call it.
My next big guy if I can seal the deal will come approximatly 50 yards from my moms house.

P.S.-By the way a former chicago bears player got him about 1/4 mile down the roadthat same year during the rut.
Stinking bears!
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