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.
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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.
Well you always kill above average deer so first off….congrats!! Second, this is useless without pics
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Snake
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Nice buck Jason , congratulations brother !
Nice un' congrats!
Thanks Steve, this guy is a tad bit smaller than last year, according to trail cameras he suffered a high shoulder injury in late nov and by late Dec was really looking bad. I really questioned whether he would survive . And he is actually about 13-14" smaller than he was before halloween. he broke off both brow tines as well as a nice 6" sticker forward off his base at some point between Oct. 28th and the day I killed him. This video is before he was broke up .
