ORIGINAL: skybuster20ga
ORIGINAL: nchawkeye
The larger piles, stuck together are from a buck...
thats hog wash. ive tracked and killed almost all my deer accept a few w/ a bow and i have tracked deer for other ppl and double team tracked w/ my dad and fallowed him since i could walk tracking big bucks and ive seen big pellets small pellets clumped pellets loose pellets from all sorts of different size bucks and does and i can tell you there is no way to determine whether its a big old raunchy buck or a little skipper who left the pile o crap. its all based on diet. a urin spotin the snow how ever thereis a tell tale sign to p[rove if its a buck or a doe
Not so fast. Every area is potentially different, and while there is no 100% rule I have found that 'most' older bucks after the rut and throughout the course of the winter leave somewhat 'runny' or, for lack of a better term, 'cloddy' feces. My theory is the older bucks that rut harder do this since their fat supplies are so depleted afterward. I know there is a medical reason in humans, anyway, that people with too-low body fat counts are more prone to 'the runs'
The rest of the year I do not know if there is any real correlation however.