This sounds like his home range to me. To me a core area is an area where the bucks will feel very secure and yet be able browse around and get a drink. After dark, he may venture out of his core area for some socializing and to keep tabs on things. His home range can increase or decrease in size depending on the time of year (during the rut for example).

He forgot the -ZING-

Perhaps "satellite" wasn't the correct word. What I mean is, other areas he may visit, but not necessarily "core" areas.


I mean, I have "core areas" ....my home is a core area, my place of employment is a core area......But, when I visit my parent's...would that be a "core" area? No, not really.

When I think of "core area" I think of an area where they spend the majority of their time. A core area may be, just to throw numbers out there, 200 acres. He spends 85% of his time in those 200 acres. But, he may spend a day on a few acres outside of that, for whatever reason. And maybe that's not the first, nor last, time he'll be on that few acres. But I wouldn't consider it a "core" area. Just a place he's visiting for whatever reason.

*heavy sigh* Man, ok. I guess I'm just gonna have to move to the right LOCATION. Maybe then I'll figure it out, and maybe then I will know what I'm talking about, and maybe then I can come back??

Like this..

Mobow your neighborhood is your core area.. your home is your core bedding area. At certian times of the week you are at a workplace like a factory.. thats your core area at that time.. within that is your office.. which is like a core bedding area.

Then that entire area (the area from your neighborhood to your workplace) is considered your home range. Where you are at certain times of the week.

Of course.. its different times of the year for a whitetail not dayly.

I'm going to bed.. I suck at this tonight.

I hear ya Mo....but I just consider those places part of his home range.

I hear what you're saying, though.

You can make up a word/phrase if you want to. Justin made up sack rider.....and I added most/all of them to my "ignore" list.

If you make one up....make it that good!

Bro, if you only knew how true that really is. I see what you're saying, and ironically I think we're meaning the same thing with different verbage (That was the correct use of that word, yes? )

Jeff, this is JMO, but I don't view "home range" and "core area" as the same thing. My bathroom is in my "home range" but it's FAR from my "core area."

Maybe where the confusion is coming is that some are using the 2 interchangeably. How's that for pithy?

I said this on page 4, Mo.

Bingo....and they're not interchangable.


Ditto......Another rainy day up here tomorrow.....