RE: Bowhunting Fallacies.
 

Lmfao!!!! You damn right its true!

RE: Bowhunting Fallacies.
 

Yep, I got that one down to a tee!;)

RE: Bowhunting Fallacies.
 

this one made me think of when people always say you can tell the sex of a deer by its tracks. i think thats not true either

RE: Bowhunting Fallacies.
 

Carbon suits. Oh I use them, but if you put a gun to my head I might have to admit that I don't fully believe in them. I think if I dropped my clothes in baking soda every night and kept myself right I might be just as good to go.

And why do we all know what "scent free" soap smells like?

RE: Bowhunting Fallacies.
 

Actually that is true but only because of the way they walk, not depth or necessarily size. When a deer walks, he/she'll place the back hoove in the track of the front hoove. If the second print is inside the first print it is a buck as a bucks chest is wider than it's hips and the reverse for doe, a does hips are wider than it's chest. It's not fool proof but it's mostly accurate (if you can tell which was first and second).

RE: Bowhunting Fallacies.
 

No that one definately is true. However there are times when one may look like another. For example, does walk on their toes and bucks on their feet... so you'll see the dew claws in a walking buck track as well as see the front "toes" often splayed open... however if the mud is really deep... or a deer was running, a doe track can look like a young buck track. But other than that its very easy to tell the difference by looking at the distance between the tracks, the shape and size of them, as well as the width of the shoulders (bucks have wider shoulders than hips, so the larger front tracks are usually set slightly to the right or left of the smaller hind foot, as well as in front of them a few inches). Fawns of course place their front and back feet in almost exactly the same spot.. so you get that double stamped look to their track.... however when they are fawns you cannot reliably tell gender by the track. Does tend to place their front and back feet almost together, but often in a straight line. And of course they walk on their toes and their toes are usually much much much closer together than on a buck track.

Sorry that got a little longwinded.

RE: Bowhunting Fallacies.
 

When you see dew claws in a track, it's a buck. (relative to body weight)

If you see drag marks in the snow, it's a buck. (relative to how lazy a given deer is)

If you see deer crap in gobs, as opposed to the usual pellets, it's a buck.
(relative to what a given deer is eating)

RE: Bowhunting Fallacies.
 

I honestly thought it was the other way around. You do mean (by saying what you did) that the back hoof printwill be placed almost directly over the front hoof print?

If so...I learned something, today.

RE: Bowhunting Fallacies.
 

Correct, from a casually walking deer. If the second print, (the back hoof) is inside the first print (the front) the deer is a buck/male. A buck's chest is wider than it's hips and a does hips are wider than it's chest causing their back hoof print to be outside the the front hoof print.

Also, I don't buy the dew claw and weight theory. A mature doe will give a bigger print, heavier print that a 1.5 year old buck at times.

RE: Bowhunting Fallacies.
 

X2
Most of the time I believe witha cross typewind so they can take advantage of all their senses. Thats why they circle down wind so much, Hunter makes grunt, buck does not see anything, buck circles and smells his ass.