button bucks fighting?
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 44
button bucks fighting?
Hey, I was wondering if you guys have ever seen button bucks sparring? I was hunting a few days ago on Wednesday evening and watched four deer file out into a green grassy field to eat. While two of them ate, the other two started sparring, knocking their heads together and pushing each other in circles. The deer were not particularly large compared to the other two, who were both antlerless as well. They were about 70 yards away so I could not see their heads well. Do you suppose this was just young buttons being playful? Just wondered if this was common and if any of ya'll have seen it.
Jon
Jon
#5
Spike
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 72
RE: button bucks fighting?
I saw atiny spikeand aforkhorn go at it pretty hard core this season. Tearnig up leaves and pushing each other all over the place. I was shocked. I thought it was a buck and a doe until they went at it. The only reason I knew it was a spike is because he ran right underneath me after he lost.
#6
RE: button bucks fighting?
On several occasions I've seen button bucks bumping heads this season. A couple of times they tried it on mom.... it didn't go over so good! She reared up and came down with her head but the feisty little bugger fled the scene in the nick of time.
#7
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Midwest
Posts: 359
RE: button bucks fighting?
ORIGINAL: GregH
On several occasions I've seen button bucks bumping heads this season. A couple of times they tried it on mom.... it didn't go over so good! She reared up and came down with her head but the feisty little bugger fled the scene in the nick of time.
On several occasions I've seen button bucks bumping heads this season. A couple of times they tried it on mom.... it didn't go over so good! She reared up and came down with her head but the feisty little bugger fled the scene in the nick of time.
I've seen them bumping heads, never a knock down drag out like them's pops...lol
The funny thing is to watch them do the instinctive thing and attempt the rituals of breeding, scrapping, rubbing. It's really comical to watch a button rub a small sapling. Do you think he even knows what he's doing?
#8
RE: button bucks fighting?
I've never seen button bucks go at it, but I did get some footage of two 1x2's and a 2x2 butting heads a couple years back. The stills aren't close to even being considered decent, but you can see whats going on anyhow.
#9
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 44
RE: button bucks fighting?
Thanks for the comebacks guys, I suppose that is not too uncommon... It is interesting they attempt the same actions as the older boys... do you think they do any breeding of does during the second rut in some areas, similar to how yearling does sometimes come into estrous? I took a button buck today during shotgun season on a drive that I mistook for a doe, and his tarsals resembled those of a rutting, breeding buck.
Jon
Jon