buck home range

Why Are Bucks in Front of Everyone’s Cameras But Yours?

Aug 4, 2021 Lindsay Thomas Jr.

The parade of social-media bucks is underway. Every day now, more trail-cameras are appearing in the woods, and so are the photos they capture, especially big bucks in velvet and big bachelor groups of bucks…

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Whitetail Bucks Are Not Territorial

Oct 27, 2015 Lindsay Thomas Jr.

A buck can vanish from your hunting area for many reasons: hunting pressure, killed by a neighbor or poacher, hit by a car, died from injuries in a fight with another buck, brain abscess, a long…

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GPS Reveals Early Season Buck Movement Patterns

Aug 25, 2014 Clint McCoy

You hear it all the time: A hunter gets a bunch of trail-camera photos of a buck early in the season and then, poof, the deer pulls a Houdini and disappears for the rest of…

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New Data On Buck Home-Range Size by Age

Aug 19, 2014 Lindsay Thomas Jr.

In the October/November 2014 issue of Quality Whitetails, the magazine received by QDMA members, deer researcher Clint McCoy shared what he learned about the effects of hunting pressure on buck movements. For his graduate-level research,…

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Where Has That Darn Buck Gone?

Feb 19, 2013 Jim Stickles

As part of a research project funded by the Georgia Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration, Jim Stickles, a graduate student at the University of Georgia Deer Lab, and undergraduates Swanny Evans and…

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