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Check out this buck's range - Mississippi Delta "update"
Posted on 6/8/21 at 7:35 pm
Posted on 6/8/21 at 7:35 pm
[/img] We captured buck 140 during December 2020 as a 2-year-old. His behavior was normal... until the rut ended in late January and the water began to rise.
Yes, that’s the 1-mile wide Mississippi River, and he crossed it during peak flood stage before he set up shop in Louisiana, 18 MILES from his capture location.
Deer living in areas prone to severe environmental events like flooding go to incredible lengths to survive. He seems quite content in Louisiana for now, but watch for updates because we have a hunch he might swim back to the Mississippi for the fall.
This post was edited on 8/25/21 at 9:08 am
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Posted on 6/8/21 at 7:41 pm to The Torch
Deer university did an episode on buck seasonal travel and it was pretty interesting. As I recall some bucks went 1000 yards every year to summer, one buck went 25 miles to the same place, passing through several neighborhoods and crossing major highways. There was nothing pushing him out, and he made the migration every spring and fall, they attribute it to the individual personality of the deer.
Posted on 6/8/21 at 7:44 pm to The Torch
I wonder how many the river kills on a % basis.
Posted on 6/8/21 at 7:54 pm to The Torch
Yet people will still swear culling free range bucks makes a difference
Posted on 6/8/21 at 9:14 pm to The Torch
Very cool info. Thanks for sharing. Be sure to update us in the coming months.
Posted on 6/8/21 at 9:37 pm to The Torch
that's a cool map and the info you posted.
Posted on 6/8/21 at 10:29 pm to The Torch
Boudreux gonna git dat buk.
Posted on 6/9/21 at 3:56 am to The Torch
I’ll be damned. His December/January locations were on what was my old deer camp before the state acquired it a few years back.
Posted on 6/9/21 at 6:02 am to The Torch
Very cool information. Based on the data, the buck swam across the river at flood stage in an almost straight line. Now that’s hard to believe. Not sure a fish could even do that.
Posted on 6/9/21 at 6:53 am to The Torch
Makes you wander why we have to debone deer meat coming from a neighboring state
Posted on 6/9/21 at 8:25 am to The Torch
Pussy is undefeated.
Posted on 6/9/21 at 9:03 am to The Torch
No fence?
Posted on 6/9/21 at 9:30 am to The Torch
A buck with a hard dick will go places where a buck with a loaded gun will not.
Posted on 6/9/21 at 9:55 am to The Torch
Posted on 6/9/21 at 10:01 am to The Torch
That explains why I have 150's in the spring and summer and 110's in the fall and winter... Grrrr..
Posted on 6/9/21 at 12:31 pm to The Torch
Maybe he just through he was abducted by aliens and needed to find a new place to hide?
Posted on 6/10/21 at 12:03 am to The Torch
I used to hunt close to that area and I always liked hunting in January because we would get so many of these free range bucks
Posted on 6/10/21 at 12:35 am to The Torch
I’ve hunted “the cutoff” behind Dow chemical quite a few times with a friend of mine. When I first met him(my friend) I asked him more than once, in disbelief, how he gets the same deer on camera year after year. He told me they swim the river TWICE a year. When the water comes up, they cross it. I have no clue how they know, but when the water goes down they come back. Dow doesn’t let the deer out of their facility so there’s no way they go in dow and come back, but I’ve seen on his cameras, the same deer year after year. I also know people who “photograph” bucks swimming the river regularly. Somehow the photographs look similar to the deer on their walls. But that’s another topic entirely.
Posted on 6/10/21 at 4:55 am to The Torch
Gotta link to that?
Posted on 6/10/21 at 6:33 am to The Torch
Pretty cool after all that traveling, he spends the last three months in that one square mile.
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