that happened to me today. Bowhunting over a small stand of 4 yo pine. Just below the pines in a hollow I can hear what sounds to be one deer walking methodically and another deer moving more brisk. This occurs for 5-10 seconds every 15 minutes or so. I hear the occasional snort wheeze (first time ever hearing it in real life) so I decide to get my rattle bag out. Just as I prepare to rattle a decent 8 emerges and spots me as I am trying to tuck it away and grab my bow. He gets nervous and walks off in the opposite direction. Not 5 minutes after a bigger buck crosses the road bed walking slowly but where he was I only saw him for a split second. Would you guys say this was behavior of a bachelor group (I have reason to believe that a spike I had seen earlier joined their party in the hollow) or would you guess there was a doe somewhere in the neighborhood? I never heard any horns hitting and I am not fully convinced the louder running I heard was a buck dogging a doe. Only grunts I heard were very weak and didn't occur until that spike showed up. Is this typical bachelor group sparring?
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Sounds like an older more mature buck pushing around some younger smaller bucks. May have not been a doe anywhere near. Bucks in the same vicinity does not necessarily mean they are grouped together, especially this time of year
trout
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The snort wheeze was likely the bigger buck trying to intimidate the decent 8 point. The sounds may have a been the 8 point moving away in short bursts as big boy approached.
Could there have been a doe bedded in some thick stuff, and the bigger buck guarding her by bulldogging the others away? A snort wheeze is incredibly aggressive and pretty dang rare. I've never seen it among a bachelor group. If a buck did it he had good reason.
killingtime 41
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Hot doe close by I would imagine.the bigger buck wanted her for himself. Or they're made have been an even more aggressive buck you didn't see. Running them all away including the 8. Snort wheeze means business and not anything a bachelor group would be doing. Only one thing bucks will actually fight over. And we know what that is. Good luck
Hard to tell I'd just be assuming.
backyardtndeer
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LenS
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I can count on one hand the times I've heard a snort wheeze. But every circumstance was the same in that it was an older buck who was after a doe warning off younger bucks. So my guess would be that a doe was somewhere nearby.
