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Buck 140 crossed Mississippi 4x in 2 years, interesting Field and Stream article
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DC219
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Good story. Thanks for sharing.
thirdwilliam
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That's a good one
BSK
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Deer do amazing things. And deer along major river systems seem to have the oddest patterns of all.
CliffordN
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That ain't nuthin... I have crossed that river a zillion times deer hunting!
Omega
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This will be interesting.
18 mile range can have far reaching implications when it comes to the spread of CWD, and if the Mississippi river can't stop it, the rest don't have a chance.
18 mile range can have far reaching implications when it comes to the spread of CWD, and if the Mississippi river can't stop it, the rest don't have a chance.
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This just shows those 2 & 3 year olds you pass up and think you are managing are traveling farther than you hope they would. We have seen it for many years on 1300 acres. Most of the time you are making the neighbors happy.
DoubleRidge
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MSU Deer Lab performs some absolutely fascinating studies and I really enjoy their podcast where they share allot of what they have learned....what's amazing to me is how some bucks feel the need to travel long distance while others absolutely do not....many years we will have pictures of mature bucks throughout the year...in velvet and hard horn...then other bucks we only get a few pics of then they disappear... sometimes to never be seen again and sometimes they reappear months later....as for buck #140 in the article...18 mIles...wow!....I'd love to truly understand why certain bucks do what they do.
The 140 buck was killed recently on a draw hunt in the same area where his gps collar fell off.
'It's one in a million': Saga ends for Buck No. 140, deer that crosses Mississippi River
A Mississippi deer hunter bagged what is likely the most famous buck in the state, but he didn't realize it until afterward.
www.clarionledger.com
Mescalero
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Love the MSU Deer Lab (and the stories/research done by others like UGA and Penn State). There's a really good NDA podcast episode from this past Summer with a rep from the MSU Deer Lab. Every Spring a buck would leave MS, swim across the Mississippi River into LA for the Summer and then would swim back across to MS come Fall.
Neat story
