LIVE2HUNTNFISH

I' ve always been told the same thing you guys have, that a large clump of pellets is a buck dropping.I' m sure for the most part this is true, but I saw a large buck relieve himself a few yards from me the other day, and after I got off the stand I looked at the droppings(DIDN' T COUNT OR TASTE THEM....LOL) but they looked the same as a doe. I' ve seen many of them clumped together and I would say that a doe doesn' t do this but a buck probably doesn' t do it at all times either.

MN_Deerman

This topic came up on another forum that I visit and someone provided an email that was sent by the Minnesota DNR on a study did on this very topic. It was concluded that dropping whether being clumps or pellets, big or small, cannot be used to determine the sex of the animal. Both bucks & does ' dispersed' both. There was no evidence to pattern what caused what & where, it seemed totally random.

txbowjunkie

MN_Deerman,

I read a simular study and it said the same thing. Heck, might have been the same one!!!

I tend to believe that it' s true, just like being able to tell a buck or doe from the tracks. Can' t be done with any accuracy.

Tazman

Folks there is only one way to tell the difference, TASTE!!!!!

Doe Vanilla
Buck Chocolate

Russ otten

Really, tho only way to be sure is to taste the rack.LOL
But maybe that won' t be a sure thing. A local hunter a couple years ago dropped an eight point DOE.

RiverBottomBowHunter

it could depend on what the deer ate. a couple beers and some mexican food and
sure its gonna be clumped up.JK

i also read somewhere that pellets are does and bucks are clumps