If a dominant buck is taken............
10-12-2006, 08:49 PM
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Fork Horn
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If a dominant buck is taken............
If a dominant buck is taken from an area,does a new one move right in? or,does every dominant buck already have overlapping territories. This is probably a stupid question, but Im still interested what everyone thinks.
10-14-2006, 10:35 AM
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Boone & Crockett
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RE: If a dominant buck is taken............
Overlapping territories and there is really never only 1 dominant buck in any given area thus the overlapping territories. If this were not the case, there would be no fights to the death not to mention knock down, drag outs that do indeed happen. One might come away dominant at any given opportunity.
And don't distinquish dominancy with antler size either, there are times when a smaller buck will dominate much larger ones.
And don't distinquish dominancy with antler size either, there are times when a smaller buck will dominate much larger ones.
10-14-2006, 10:53 AM
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RE: If a dominant buck is taken............
I see it more as theDB'sarea gets 'absorbed' by surrounding/overlapping bucks, and then a new pecking order is eventually established, via fighting.
I can't imagine that a completely different buck moves intoa definedarea like it were a vacant apartment with no conflict from other deer.
I can't imagine that a completely different buck moves intoa definedarea like it were a vacant apartment with no conflict from other deer.
10-14-2006, 12:35 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
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RE: If a dominant buck is taken............
Deer are creatures of habbit. They change thier habbits when other things change. Weather, hunting pressure, food courses, predators, water sources play a roll. Big bucks are deer and they are creatures of habit. They do things for a reason. If you take a big dominant buck from a area. Remember where you took that buck, other big bucks will move in. I've seen big deer, different deer, do the same thing every year on a piece of property I hunt. My uncle and some of his friends have a lease they hunt on in north west missouri. Every big deer they have taken that has scored over 140 has came out of the same stretch of woods. I don't know if other deer moved it, or if they let younger bucks grow up. Maybe both. Knowing that all those big deer are comeing from 1 general area on that lease says something. If you kill a big buck, remember where because sooner or later another big buck will be there.
