Seen it time and time again from 10+ years of using trail cams, deer showing up in a location the same day or within a few days of the previous year.
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I haven't noticed them to the day but i have noticed them to a given time frame. I killed a deer last week that for the last 3 years I've kept up with him he showed at the first week or so of November, he would hang around for a very short time before vanishing again. I notice those types of patterns yearly with certain deer. It's kind of rare that I have one that's just a homebody and he stays on the hunting land but it does occasionally happen.
Bgoodman30
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What's crazy is I have seen different mature deer do the exact same thing and walk the same trail on the same day in consecutive years.
BSK
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Back in the early 2000s, I had the same buck first appear on cam on my place on the same date three years in a row - Halloween. He would stick around for the rut and then vanish, not to be seen again until the next Halloween. This is how I got started theorizing on annual "rut ranges" that are different than a buck's normal fall range. Later GPS collar studies proved this to be true.
Similar story. In 2009 I was a new member at a club outside of Hohenwald. Opening morning in one of the hollows I had a nice young 11 point come by my stand 3-4 time chasing all morning. He was 16" wide with pencil horns grunting every step. I passed him up. Next season on opening morning he was killed within 200 yds of that spot and was considerably bigger.
