A few buck fawns are alright too as you can also obtain their weights. Register Log In Aldeer.com Forums Serious Deer Talk Forum Mature bucks per acre: Forums Calendar Active Threads Forum Help: Aldeer Classifieds Found some 303 British ammo, BOSS CR, 270WSM by ALMODUX. Doe fawn weights are a great index to herd health and a valuable piece of information to collect. There’s little difference between daytime and all locations. Buck home ranges explode and are nearly three times larger and average almost 3 square miles in size (3 sq. Additionally, and maybe most importantly, the doe’s genes get a vote in the offspring as well. If possible, I like to harvest around two doe fawns per 500 acres of high-quality habitat to obtain their weights. That’s the best way to kill a mature buck while it's eating. But female home ranges actually shrink from 400 acres to under 200 acres. My Long Relationship with the Bell Curve Figuring it out is truly challenging, because the animal’s movements are complex and dependent on a number of factors, none more important than climactic conditions. The amount of area a buck covers on an annual basis has been researched repeatedly over the years. The rut makes November a different story. In the 1990’s, properties like Cottonwood, Willow Point and Tara further demonstrated to me that age and nutrition were keys to growing big whitetail bucks. Does and young bucks typically take a direct route to the food. 4. Say you have a 1,000 acre parcel that is managed extremely well... What is the highest number of mature bucks you think can live and grow in that 1,000 acres? They don’t take as many precautions as mature bucks. A 48% decline in area. November. math: 5,000 acres/ 25 acres per Adult Deer = 200 Adult Deer/ (1.25 does to bucks + 1) = 89 bucks * 41% mature = 36 mature bucks.) 01/16/21 08:24 PM 6.5 x 55 Swedish and .338 Win Mag. *Make sure to check out my mature buck hunting and habitat books for both public and private lands.. (In the Southeast, average production of native deer forage is closer to 150 pounds per acre.) by … Using an annual production of 100 usable pounds of deer browse per acre of natural habitat and an annual requirement of 2,555 pounds of feed per deer, we see that 25.6 acres are required to support one deer throughout the year. A great example of this is comparing how immature and mature bucks typically check the same 5 acre island of brush the family group uses for bedding, in the otherwise more mature woods. Most of the bucks I relocate annually are within a 200- to 300-acre area or less. They play the wind. They play the thermals. The old ones, they take meandering routes to food sources. miles = 1,920 acres)! It would seem like there is one big secret, because while so many hunters think that you need 200, 500 or even a thousand acres or more to consistently harvest the oldest bucks in the area; a small % of hunters often harvest the majority of mature bucks from the smallest parcels in the area. Obviously they will venture out of the 1,000 but for the most part, call that area their home. Three years later that 5,000-acre piece of property was producing 150-inch bucks weighing over 200 pounds. and the amount and kind of trees in a pen, I would say that 8 to 10 per acre and your ground will maintain grass coverage. Big Buck Heaven, I believe that the ideal number of deer per acre depends on alot of different variables, one of which is your intended purpose in having deer. The youngster is likely to plunge in, running all over the tangle of brush, hoping to find a willing girlfriend. 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