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Cruiser Bucks

Wade Nolan by Wade Nolan
May 2, 2016 - Updated on November 20, 2016
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Robert Hoague managed to catch up with this buck by being persistent. Bucks this age are the travelers and had to dodge a lot of hunters to end up in Hoague's hero pic.

Robert Hoague managed to catch up with this buck by being persistent. Bucks this age are the travelers and had to dodge a lot of hunters to end up in Hoague's hero pic.

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By: Wade Nolan Bowhunting Biologist
By: Wade Nolan Bowhunting Biologist

Researchers are learning more about buck movements due to new GPS Tracking collars. Just as the invention of the telescope opened up our eyes to the scope of the universe, this new technology is revealing secrets about whitetail movement, secrets that biologists never even dreamed. While at the S. E. Deer Study Group meeting in Athens Georgia recently I was privy to some new research findings that are opening up new discussion on buck movement patterns. This is information I want to share with hunters.

A few years ago, a study revealed that mature bucks are making “excursions” (road trips) during the rut. Some of these mature bucks left their home range and made a 6-7 mile circuit, returning to home after 3-7 days.  Another study done by Dr. Grant Woods in Missouri learned that as many as 50% of the mature bucks left their home range and relocated to another home range. Sometimes they moved as close as 1000 yards away or maybe miles. Most return to their original HR after a year. Go figure.

The author has been attending the SE deer study groups since the '90's. He shares these studies in his Whitetail seminars.
The author has been attending the SE deer study groups since the ’90’s. He shares these studies in his Whitetail seminars.

In contrast to does, bucks begin to travel when only 1.5 years old due to maternal doe enforced buck dispersal. This stirs the gene pool. In northern Pa, one study learned that these yearling bucks were moving up to 5-miles to establish a new HR. In the more patchwork agriculture regions of southern Pa, it was 15 miles. In one study in heavily farmed Illinois, buck dispersal averaged an amazing 25-miles.

Yearling bucks seem to get the travel-bug early. Their first road trip occurs when their antlers are about like this youngsters.
Yearling bucks seem to get the travel-bug early. Their first road trip occurs when their antlers are about like this youngsters.
Robert Hoague managed to catch up with this buck by being persistent. Bucks this age are the travelers and had to dodge a lot of hunters to end up in Hoague's hero pic.
Robert Hoague managed to catch up with this buck by being persistent. Bucks this age are the travelers and had to dodge a lot of hunters to end up in Hoague’s hero pic.

Bucks do cruise. This winter at the South East Deer meeting in Georgia I heard a research paper given that really mixed up the knowledge base on what we believed on buck movements. The research was conducted in three study areas with 37 GPS collared bucks. The areas stretched from north-central Pennsylvania to the Piedmont region of Georgia to the Mississippi River flood plain of Louisiana.

GPS collar data of a buck who ventured from his home range in the spring.
GPS collar data of a buck who ventured from his home range in the spring.

Steering the research was Dr. Carl Miller, his longtime friend David Stone from the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. During the study, nearly half of the mature bucks left his home range boundaries for between 12-hours and 11-days. Now for the interesting part. This study showed that they did this traveling between mid-February and mid June…not during peak rut. Go figure. A bucks fidelity to his home range is not a given. Bucks are cruisers.  GPS collars are revealing new secrets about whitetails.

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For more please go to: Wade Nolan

Tags: ATSKOBowhunting Biologistbowhunting.netCruiser BucksDr. Carl MillerDr. Grant Woodsrobert hoagueS. E. Deer Study Groupwade nolanWarnell School of Forestry and Natural Resourceswhitetail university
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