Ok, I picked this little tidbit out of the moon activity post and was curious. <BLOCKQUOTE id=quote<font size=1 face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote> (couewell be, look for trails, rubs on 1-2 inchdiameter trees, and buck beds. If you find largge cluped deer droppings they are ussually made by bucks, and they often occur in/near scrapes, and in bedding areas TR).
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Now, I think that &quot;cluped&quot; was CLUMPED?? If that indeed was the case, I have heard that this was a wives tail??? Is there merit to scat consistency on determining gender??

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Sorry for all the typos, I get tired of checking for them. You guys are keeping me too busy. I've got 3 threads here, 1 or 2 on the whitetail board, and at least 1 each on the biggame, turkey and waterfowl boards.

Now what was the question? I get confused, are we Rattling for geese, or Flagging for whitetails? This is worse than giving 3 different seimnars at a show.

I don't know that there is &quot;scientific&quot; evidence supporting this belief, but, after talking to several of the other writers/seminar speakers at the shows, espcially &quot;Doc&quot; Ken Nordbeg of The Whitetail Almanac fame, many of us put stock in it. I know I often find large clumped (look I got it right) droppings in or near scrapes, at open nighttime beds, and in some of the thickest crap I can crawl through, where I find sngle, large, beds. This tells me I have found a buck bedding site. And I want to hunt near it!!!!

Gotta go, I've got 73 e-mails to answer. All in the last 12 hours. By the way, that will take me 6 hours, so if you don't hear from me, you know why.

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T.R. Michels

Edited by - trmichels on 10/28/2002 03:09:14

scat type is determined by what a deer has been eating, I have seen small pellets from bucks and clumps from doe, while field dressing them.

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

I have to agree with Tazman. I have taken courses on rumen nutrition and I am pretty sure there is no way the feces determines the sex of an animal just by looking at it. If the deer have been eating a high amount of fiber than it is more likely for the fecal material to be clumped together.

You guys are absolutely right, food type makes all the difference in the world. But, what I am doing is using the clumps in conjunction with other (buck) sign, to come to conclusions on where to find bucks. YOu can't rely on just one part of the puzzle.

T.R.

T.R. Michels