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Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!!
[Re: Big_Ag]
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10/09/17 11:03 PM
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Jon
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Went to a deer seminar last Friday and there was a presentation from a wildlife biologist that was studying deer movement to wheat during the fall & winter. This was in North Central Texas Rolling Plains area. He located an area with a isolated wheat field. They captured and put tracking collars on does and bucks. Several bucks moved as much as 8 miles in the fall to the area with the wheat and then would return to their spring summer home range year after year. He found does would not move as far.
In a different segment on culling, they talked about a study done on fawn buck movement after they leave their mother and found that they establish their new home range long distances, as far as 21 miles, from their mother's home range. The point was your bucks are coming from long distances and that the buck offspring of the cull bucks you are trying to remove will likely never inhabit your ranch after it is a fawn. Of course you could argue you are helping your neighbors by killing that cull buck. On the culling part, and up to 21 mile fawn buck movement, do you recall what they said the minimum or average distances they had observed? Did they give any other details about those studies?
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Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!!
[Re: Captain Luke]
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10/10/17 03:00 PM
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jrgocards
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That a buck will make a doe cross an open field before he will cross it.
JR
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Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!!
[Re: J. Klein]
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10/10/17 03:18 PM
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D'hanis
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This has always been true in our case. But our deer are also very very skittish.
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Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!!
[Re: Captain Luke]
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04/18/18 05:10 PM
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Here's one I've heard several times: "My 30-30 shoots flatter than anyone else's and I can hit clear out to 500 yards without any holdover."
I've probably heard different versions of that for 30 or more years.
Retired Navy Chief NJROTC Instructor for Tascosa High School
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Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!!
[Re: Double Naught Spy]
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04/18/18 06:12 PM
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PMK
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seems to be a lot of very questionable statements made in that article too ...
"everyone that lives dies but not everyone who dies lived..."
~PMK~
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Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!!
[Re: PMK]
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04/18/18 06:42 PM
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seems to be a lot of very questionable statements made in that article too ... Yes. A bunch.
I learned long ago you can't reason someone out of something they don't reason themselves into.
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Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!!
[Re: maximus_flavius]
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04/18/18 06:54 PM
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LOL, truest thing I've read on the innernet this week! The myth that hunting on a LF 10 acres is "really hunting", but hunting on a HF 1,500 brushy & rough acres "ain't real hunting".
Theres a lot of that myth around here, along with the associated butt-hurt when someone who hunts extremely small acreages & takes way more deer than that acreage will raise, looks up & sees their neighbors HF them out.
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Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!!
[Re: mow]
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04/18/18 06:57 PM
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FordEvangelist
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(1)from a yankee friend...thats now a texan.."shooting deer at a feeder is cheating" after i told him no its not and expained if you dont do it..the next person would and you have no deer coming to you"..he hunts at a feeder now (2) "i wont eat deer,because it taste gamey" and then i proceed to trick that person into eating my secret chile at thanksgiving and Christmas..venison chili..lol A guy from Iowa once told me that hunting a feeder was cheating. He told me this right after he explained the big Iowa buck he killed while hunting a freshly plowed up corn field.
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Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!!
[Re: Captain Luke]
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04/18/18 09:18 PM
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Peeing around your blind or feeder will scare the deer!
Thursday at 12:45 PM #33 Once i learned that i didn't "NEED" to kill something, and that if i did kill something all the fun stopped and work began, i was a much better hunter.
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Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!!
[Re: Captain Luke]
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04/18/18 10:13 PM
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Not a myth but a term commonly used these days. "Recruitment" Deer fawn, cattle calve, goats kid, sheep lamb, hogs farrow pigs, dogs whelp pups, etc., etc., and birth rates can be established for each. None of these animals go around soliciting or "recruiting" their offspring from some other place in hopes they will hang around with them for a year or so. This term was developed by some Phd. biologist so he could sound smarter than the average ole farm boy.
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Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!!
[Re: Captain Luke]
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04/19/18 12:52 PM
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kyle1974
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"our lease is FULL of nothing but fully mature deer with less than 13" spreads"
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Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!!
[Re: txshotgun]
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04/19/18 04:01 PM
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[quote=txshotgun]You need $324,220 of camo, scent blocks, ATVs, 40 foot stands, and a Yeti cup and cooler to kill a deer.
I believe I was wearing jeans, long-sleeved shirt, old military jacket and walmart boots when I got my first deer. Probably wearing similar for the others too.
FYI - Realtree isn't really real. BUT Bill Jordan thanks you! [/quote and $4000. gun
hold on Newt, we got a runaway
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Re: Deer myths that you are tired of hearing..........GO!!
[Re: Captain Luke]
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04/19/18 04:30 PM
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Need to feed year round to teach fawns how to jump 34 hog panel so they come when they are older...
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