Are you seeing any bucks bachelored up yet?
05-27-2008, 01:50 PM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2006
Location: IA/WI/IL
Posts: 1,482
RE: Are you seeing any bucks bachelored up yet?
I have noticed deer are at their lowest visibility from the middle of May to the end of June. I am not sure why, other than the fawn drop for does, but I do not see many bucks either. Movement is very nocturnal as deer feeding in fields in daylight hours are rare. This year has been the same. I do notice the few bucks I see this time of year are in groups though.
05-27-2008, 02:01 PM
#13
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Phoenixville, PA USA
Posts: 5,541
RE: Are you seeing any bucks bachelored up yet?
My buddy saw 2 bucks bedded down together that looked to be 3.5s or big 2.5s. One was out past its ears with nice brows and "clubs" on the end where the G2s would presumably be sprouting. The other was more growing up and was out to its ears as well with nice brows. This was early last week.
05-27-2008, 03:20 PM
#15
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Missouri
Posts: 3,763
RE: Are you seeing any bucks bachelored up yet?
Shawn and I had a nice bachelor group of bucks come by us while turkey hunting in MO in early May. They had just started growing their bases. They snuck up on us and ended up walking down a trail about 10 yards away before they caught our wind.
05-27-2008, 03:43 PM
#16
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Northeast Tennessee
Posts: 5,673
RE: Are you seeing any bucks bachelored up yet?
My bucks must be slow growers as well.
These two bucks like to hang out with each other and then I have another young buck that travels alone.
These two bucks like to hang out with each other and then I have another young buck that travels alone.
05-28-2008, 08:51 AM
#18
Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Western PA
Posts: 374
RE: Are you seeing any bucks bachelored up yet?
I got a call reporting two injured deer in a residential area on Sunday. When I arrived I found these two inside a fenced in yard, the nearest one was already dead, and the second one was badly injured. The resident said that the deer both cleared her fence entering her yard, but ran into a section of the fence that was covered by shrubbery. It looked to me that both had broken their necks, you can see how distorted the neck is on the deer closest to me. Both deer are bucks with one with 3" of antler, the other with about 5".
05-28-2008, 10:58 AM
#20
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Indiana (southern)
Posts: 6,146
RE: Are you seeing any bucks bachelored up yet?
Not yet but im seing some fuzzy bone on some young ones. They have been alone. usually when the beans are up ill start seeing that. They cant get the crops out around here because its been to wet [:@]