re: Check out this buck's range - Mississippi Delta "update"

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.

Pretty cool after all that traveling, he spends the last three months in that one square mile.

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Also, that buck wouldn't have to leave from there if they would #finishthepumps

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Mid January stage at Steele bayou was like 80 ft. Pretty sure the pumps wouldn’t even be turned on at that level. So, no, the pumps wouldn’t have done anything for this deer.

Rivergages.com

I was just curious after you said that, and I’d rather look up river stages than do actual work. I hope they #finishthepumps, too

Missouri buck travels 200 miles

I didn’t think deer covered that much ground but apparently some do.

Thank you for sharing.

200 miles - 8.5 per day

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The buck crossed a major river seven times, an interstate highway, a railroad and eight state highways

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As soon as they make up some bogus B:C figures they’ll be right on it. Most of the affected acreage has been put in freaking WRP since they first started working the pumps. There’s so little farmland left, that the benefit just isn’t there.

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