Question ??
When I was in school we studied where deer travel in what are called: "elipticle movement patterns"; meaning they (mostly doe's), if left undisturbed, will travel using the same routes to-and-from food source to bedding sites day-in-day-out.
This refers to momma does who begin the pattern (initial route) and her female off-spring will move in a pattern parallel to her's which will overlap at certain points in and around food sources.
Knowing this allows a researcher (or hunter) to pattern their movements, which might vary by as little as a few minutes some days and maybe an hour on others.
Has anyone ever actually used this information before to bag a buck who's followed a doe along these routes, or have we all at one point or another and never realised it ??
When I was in school we studied where deer travel in what are called: "elipticle movement patterns"; meaning they (mostly doe's), if left undisturbed, will travel using the same routes to-and-from food source to bedding sites day-in-day-out.
This refers to momma does who begin the pattern (initial route) and her female off-spring will move in a pattern parallel to her's which will overlap at certain points in and around food sources.
Knowing this allows a researcher (or hunter) to pattern their movements, which might vary by as little as a few minutes some days and maybe an hour on others.
Has anyone ever actually used this information before to bag a buck who's followed a doe along these routes, or have we all at one point or another and never realised it ??