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Post by Mack Apiary Bees on Feb 22, 2024 14:30:24 GMT -5
I don't think the article is very good to even comment. Deer research have already monitored bucks traveling over 10 miles during the rut all in a 36 hour window. I don't know the record length a buck will travel during the rut. Maybe 25 miles or so. I posted one article a few years ago. Purdue maybe.
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Post by titanium700 on Feb 22, 2024 14:57:16 GMT -5
Boosting one’s ego is a huge driving force for some. If a poacher just kept his mouth shut they could probably get by with killing big bucks. But noooooo, they want to be recognized as a great hunter. This for sure.
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Post by welder on Feb 22, 2024 17:02:12 GMT -5
I think it would be very surprising the amount of "world class" bucks that have been and are killed every year, perfectly legal and yet very very few people know about them. These hunters have no desire for social media and aren't out to impress anyone.
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Post by titanium700 on Feb 22, 2024 17:05:05 GMT -5
agreed. My best friend has a 184”er hanging on his wall. Nobody knows about but friends and family. He got it at big oaks about 15 yrs ago.
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Post by greghopper on Feb 22, 2024 18:26:41 GMT -5
I think it would be very surprising the amount of "world class" bucks that have been and are killed every year, perfectly legal and yet very very few people know about them. These hunters have no desire for social media and aren't out to impress anyone. Absolutely…..and they won't be selling their Trophies also So don't ask…..
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Post by huntsemall on Feb 22, 2024 19:27:42 GMT -5
I don't think the article is very good to even comment. Deer research have already monitored bucks traveling over 10 miles during the rut all in a 36 hour window. I don't know the record length a buck will travel during the rut. Maybe 25 miles or so. I posted one article a few years ago. Purdue maybe. Penn State Study - The Life and Times of Buck 8917 (2015) www.deer.psu.edu/the-life-and-times-of-buck-8917/Pretty interesting report......some excerpts: * During the rut - As an example, lets take a look at a single 12-hour period. The 3 locations below represent a distance of 2.7 miles covered in 6 hours. In addition, this deer crossed 4 ridges for a total of 3200 feet in elevation change. And he turned right around and ended up where he started 6 hours later! Another 2.5 miles in 6 hours and 2600 feet in elevation change. During a 12-hr period he traveled over 5 miles and over a mile in elevation!* All told, between the 4th and 27th of November (24 days) he traveled 85 miles. The previous 24 days he traveled a total of 23 miles.The next bit of information was IMO intriguing: * Pretty boring – basically he just bops around that core home range of under 1 square mile. Except did you catch that movement on June 4th, 2013? (on a map in the article) Here’s what he did. In seven hours he managed to travel well over a mile from the core of his home range to a hillside to the north. Stayed there for less than half a day then returned to a ridgetop just north of his core home range by 7pm. That 1-mile excursion was a once and done thing. He never returned to that spot the rest of the year! Who knows why. But it gets even stranger. Keep reading.
* It turns out that Buck 8917 died in January of 2015. From what we could determine it was not a quick death because we received a signal that he had not moved for >8 hours, suggesting he may have died. But the next day he moved a couple of hundred meters. Finally, it was clear based on the temperature of the collar and the lack of movement that the deer had died. We will never know why this deer picked the spot it did to die. What is fascinating (weird/creepy/surreal) is that Buck 8917 visited this spot well outside its home range only one other time (2013) in the 2 years we monitored him. Why go there to die?
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Post by welder on Feb 22, 2024 20:23:10 GMT -5
I think it would be very surprising the amount of "world class" bucks that have been and are killed every year, perfectly legal and yet very very few people know about them. These hunters have no desire for social media and aren't out to impress anyone. To take this a step further. I'm quite confident some of the truly "elite" big buck killers are almost unheard from. Back in "the day", when fur prices were extremely high,the guys that showed up at the buyers towards the end of January with literally a truck load of high quality furs were not the ones sitting around talking about how good they were. They were out grinding every day and night. As soon as season ended, scouting and prepping for next fall started. Big buck killers are the same way they don't want attention they want success and they are beyond driven in achieving it.
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Post by hornzilla on Feb 23, 2024 10:47:10 GMT -5
I think it would be very surprising the amount of "world class" bucks that have been and are killed every year, perfectly legal and yet very very few people know about them. These hunters have no desire for social media and aren't out to impress anyone. To take this a step further. I'm quite confident some of the truly "elite" big buck killers are almost unheard from. Back in "the day", when fur prices were extremely high,the guys that showed up at the buyers towards the end of January with literally a truck load of high quality furs were not the ones sitting around talking about how good they were. They were out grinding every day and night. As soon as season ended, scouting and prepping for next fall started. Big buck killers are the same way they don't want attention they want success and they are beyond driven in achieving it. Absolutely. Also with the amount of jealousy and out right hate in this world. Who would want to post anything and sign up for that headache.
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Post by greghopper on Apr 3, 2024 6:50:28 GMT -5
Has anyone heard any updates on the poaching case associated with this Deer….its been 4 months.
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Post by boonechaser on Apr 7, 2024 7:33:16 GMT -5
Has anyone heard any updates on the poaching case associated with this Deer….its been 4 months. I searched online, and it's crickets. Had read some time ago, hunter is lawyered up, so it will most likely be awhile.
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Post by alduflux on Apr 11, 2024 21:14:44 GMT -5
I don't think the article is very good to even comment. Deer research have already monitored bucks traveling over 10 miles during the rut all in a 36 hour window. I don't know the record length a buck will travel during the rut. Maybe 25 miles or so. I posted one article a few years ago. Purdue maybe. deerassociation.com/the-mysterious-adventure-of-an-exceptional-buck/
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Post by boonechaser on Apr 11, 2024 22:28:26 GMT -5
I don't think the article is very good to even comment. Deer research have already monitored bucks traveling over 10 miles during the rut all in a 36 hour window. I don't know the record length a buck will travel during the rut. Maybe 25 miles or so. I posted one article a few years ago. Purdue maybe. deerassociation.com/the-mysterious-adventure-of-an-exceptional-buck/I don't think this is a matter of a deer traveling 25-30 miles overnight. The story suggests the buck in question was killed at another location and moved to another. Not judging or jumping to conclusions , just have to see how the case plays out.
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Post by alduflux on Apr 16, 2024 16:22:21 GMT -5
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