Striper a dominant buck does have a home turf when the rut is not on, but once the rut starts all the bucks are on the move, all bets are off, they are just like teenage boys with a group of willing young ladies, the biggest baddest one is going to dominate the mating. A dominant buck will comingle with inferior bucks until the rut nears, then he runs them out of his area, but once he smells a doe in heat it does not matter if it is his home turf or not, he is on the way and as long as another dominant buck doesn't get there before him he will be the winner. Bucks do have a pecking order and I would say that if the dominant buck is taken from his home turf the next in line would become the dominant buck.

The Tazman aka Martin Price
Founder and President of
Virginia Disabled Outdoorsmen Club