During hunts, yearling bucks and 2-1/2-year-old bucks travel farther than older bucks. During the first two days of a hunt, bucks in those age groups die at faster rates than any other sex-age class.
-- Don Autry, Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge, Illinois.

The mean distance between a survivor buck’s last pre-hunt location and its first post-hunt location averaged .57 miles. The average distance between a harvested buck’s pre-hunt activity center and the site where it was shot was 1.92 miles.
-- Don Autry, Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge, Illinois.


In fact, deer inside the refuges apparently felt so secure that their routine movements remained the same before, during and after the hunt. Deer outside the refuges, however, laid low in daylight unless pushed, and they remained sedentary in daylight after the hunt. Only nine of the 57 deer left their home range, with five doing so at night. These “explorers” traveled .62 miles to 3.7 miles from home, but all returned within one to six days.

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