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At the same time. I watched a yearling nursing the day after season went out in South Miss. I pulled camera cards today in that area. 2 hours after the yearling was nursing a buck (survivor.....so far) was freshening a scrape in the same spot. Same as last year..... the bucks was still pawing and hooking the opening week of turkey season. Do y'all think this is buck/doe ratio out of whack for so long in the south, mother nature or what? Had bucks on camera in same area last year still with both horns in April.
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I think it's just what deer do, I see scrapes pawed all through turkey season here also. Now fawns nursing... That's a different story. Seems to me bucks can and will work scrapes from september through may, I just don't think it's as serious as it is when they are breeding.
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I saw a good buck chasing a doe while I was turkey hunting several years ago. I'm with Dosse I think they stay at it any time they have hard horns just not as hard when the main rut is on.
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I'm no biologist but I was under the impression that deer communicate through scent so maybe they continue to paw after the rut is over for different reasons other than mating. Not sure...
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That's my thought also. And they don't have to have antlers either. I have seen shed out bucks on my cams work scrapes. Also on the fawn I would think if you saw a fawn nursing it would have to be a spotted fawn and doubtful you would see one at this time. I'm sure it's happened but it's the exception not the rule.
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The fawn nursing on 2/16 was on camera. And no this is not the first time I have seen this in the far south this time of year. Like I said in a earlier post the past 2 years we have watched bucks chasing does in turkey season and actually saw one top and breed the doe.
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When the state started the all season doe slaughter plan in 1995 one thing we were promised was a tighter rut, however the problem was that to many bucks were also killed those first few years. If we had dropped the doe numbers just some and left the buck numbers higher we would have more total deer and a better buck/doe ratio. As it is we still have an out of whack ratio and low overall herd numbers, both bad undesirable results at least in my book.
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did you see the movie"grown ups" he was still sucking at 48months!Just kidding.
If it is on camera,send pics,it may be that the yearling was playing/licking something on the doe,not nursing.
Just a thought.
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