TOO similar. Twenty miles isn't all that far unless there is something major in the way.
Dispersal? TOO many deer on your property. Eww....bad joke.
Dispersal? TOO many deer on your property. Eww....bad joke.
We're talking a MAJOR trip to get where he was killed. Just wouldn't make sense. And now that I see a good pic of his right side, I don't think it is him...
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Are we talking 20 miles as the crow flies or 20miles on the road? Just curious. I really hope it IS a different deer. Just crazy though as they are pretty similar.
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They can travel a great distance through some stupid stuff man.. It would amaze you the places they can end up, and when you look at it you just wonder how the hell.... That big NT jd was after last year traveled about 7 miles as a crow flies in just 2 months... Lots of open fields, houses, barns, etc.. I wouldn't say it's out of the realm of possibility that they can move 20 miles.
But this deer was injured and barely moved inside a the borders of a 300 acre farm as a 3.5 year old. 20 miles?!?
I'm sure it's been documented that bucks have traveled that far... But fuck, 20 miles is a LONG way.
After seeing a better pic of the right side I have my reservations about it being the same deer too.
http://www.rps.psu.edu/pennsylvania/bucks.html
Some good information here. Although it is about the dispersal of yearling bucks, it gives some insight as to how far they may actually travel.
Some good information here. Although it is about the dispersal of yearling bucks, it gives some insight as to how far they may actually travel.
The buck you shot traveled that far easily as well. I'll have to show you the first spot I saw him in late august...
And Jesse, that looks like cr to me... And one thing you can guarantee out of me, only 2-3 people will ever know exactly where I kill any of my bucks...
The thing about CR is he had a really bad injured right front shoulder. He would walk with his back all hunched up and with a very noticable limp. Like Jesse said, he had a hard enough time getting around the farm, that it just doesn't seem likely for him to travel that far. Also, with the additional pictures that were posted, the right just does not look the same, and CR wasn't old enough for his teeth to be gone. Just my opinion.
Maybe with bad health he was old enough to lose teeth? Even moving 2MPH it would only take him 10 hours to walk it. Spread that over a year.... not that far.
