Deer telemetry study...

letemgrow

letemgrow

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Anyone remember the study where they had bucks collared and showed how they used terrain (QDMA I think)?

I remember one of the bucks avoided an open field like the plague, I think it was a 6 year old. Can’t seem to find that research paper now....


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The map had red dots and that particular buck avoided the open field except for maybe two instances. The study was 3-5 bucks that I recall from say 3-6 years old.


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Neither of those maps were what I remember.....
 
gasman said:
Here is one that I was looking at. A lot of other great info on the website too. There another article about the buck on there somewhere.

http://ecosystems.psu.edu/research/projects/deer/news/2015/the-life-and-times-of-buck-8917
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I hovered my mouse over likely stand locations and then played the video of buck 8917's movement to see how often I could have gotten a shot at him. To be honest he would have winded me, or I would have bumped him on the way in many times. Other times he just would have avoided my stand. Once in a while I think I could have gotten a shot... but I would have probably been at work on those days. :)
 
catscratch said:
I hovered my mouse over likely stand locations and then played the video of buck 8917's movement to see how often I could have gotten a shot at him. To be honest he would have winded me, or I would have bumped him on the way in many times. Other times he just would have avoided my stand. Once in a while I think I could have gotten a shot... but I would have probably been at work on those days. :)
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They may not call it the October Lull, but there was not a lot of movement going anywhere till November 2nd, then he is all over the place.


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“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”

I’d like to see how much of that 23 miles in 24 days was after legal shooting time. Seems to me there is a very good reason to call it a lull period.

He basically did not leave a 1/2 mile area for all of October and was not covering that entire area on any day.


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letemgrow said:
“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”

I’d like to see how much of that 23 miles in 24 days was after legal shooting time. Seems to me there is a very good reason to call it a lull period.


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When the time is in red it's after legal shooting time. Not that it's compiled but you get an idea while watching how much time he moves in the daylight.
Lots of staying in the same place until Nov. 3rd, then he goes crazy.
 
catscratch said:
When the time is in red it's after legal shooting time. Not that it's compiled but you get an idea while watching how much time he moves in the daylight.
Lots of staying in the same place until Nov. 3rd, then he goes crazy.
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I'd like to see both side by side for pre-rut and rut. That kind of info is extremely helpful to understand why bucks show up out of nowhere. Cannot wait to see what the MO telemetry study shows....hopefully they overlay day/night movements with habitat types.
 
There is SO much of this type of information we as hunters can pick apart and learn more from. The MU GPS study being done right now is collecting a massive amount of this type of information. The study is really limited in its scope though. I predict someone will sunshine the information and crack the lid off of it all. I suggested these side studies to the project lead and was scoffed at. :)
 
The article I was think of overlayed one of buck 8917 maps with another bucks map a few days before he died. They were both in the same spot and buck 8917 died a few days later. It is in one of the blogs but I cannot remember which one it is.

Found the blog article I was thinking of:

http://ecosystems.psu.edu/research/projects/deer/news/2015/wanted

While looking through all of the articles I noticed there is also a study on vegetation monitoring and exclusion cages.
 
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