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Re: Mortality rate of bucks by age class? [Re: mike35549] #2744992
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I have really enjoyed this thread, really makes me think about the aging of deer. How accurate am i at being able to determine age on hoof??. Also makes me think even more about what we can do to maximize the fawn mortality rate on our leases.

Re: Mortality rate of bucks by age class? [Re: mike35549] #2745014
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If ya want to maximize fawn mortality rates you could bring in some live trapped coyotes.That would probably do it.

Re: Mortality rate of bucks by age class? [Re: mike35549] #2745306
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Originally Posted by mike35549
Originally Posted by JohnG
Getting back to the ordinal post about natural morality. Well I have 750ac high fence with native deer along with a few bred does and two bucks we've put in over the past couple years. For the most part the Texas stats are right except for the 1% on four year olds, it's way way more. If I had to make a guess, less than 20% make it to 5 years old. Few years ago, had around twenty migrants come out after tree planting season to walk the land looking for sheds, skulls and dead deer. Took about six hours for them to do it along with three of us retrieving stuff when they yelled for back up. Found a lot of deer that disappeared over the years.


That sure don't leave many targets if you are only hunting 5 year old and older bucks. Kind of disheartening actually. I knew mortality was high for bucks but had no ideal it was as high as it is before I started reading some of these studies. If you were hunting 640 acres 1 square mile and the area had 40 deer per square mile and a doe/buck ratio of 2/1 this would be a above average area in AL. You would have 26 does if said does raised an average of 1.25 fawns which would be above average probably you would have 16 buck fawns if 20% made it to 5 years old that would leave 3 bucks. This would be on above average to excellent area of the state and still only 3 bucks per square mile on average. Most of us are hunting land that would be inferior to property with these numbers. Kind of a sobering thought. And really tells me maybe it ain't that those old bucks are that hard to kill more than it is you can't kill what ain't there.


I somewhat agree with your math and thought process but if you've only got 640 acres, almost all your buck fawns that you are referencing would disperse and imprint on neighboring properties outside of your 640. Whatever older age class bucks you would have, would come from surrounding properties and that number would be totally dependent on what all your neighbors were shooting and killing. This is why Bama does not have a ton of older age class bucks. Small acreages, not much in the way of large cooperative management programs/areas, almost 100 days of rifle season, and 70+% of the general hunting public being happy about killing any rack buck that they see. Makes it kind of hard to grow older age class bucks. if all you have to hunt is 640 acres, with typical Alabama hunt clubs around it, you're absolutely not going to be pulling the trigger much at all, with a 5 yr old shooting requirement or goal, and would be better off managing your hunter's expectations and setting a harvest goal of 3 yr old bucks. Now if your 640 is in the middle of Danny and Mike's 25,000 acre co-op management area or somewhere similar, that's a whole different situation and you could be very successful.

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Originally Posted by abolt300
Originally Posted by mike35549
Originally Posted by JohnG
Getting back to the ordinal post about natural morality. Well I have 750ac high fence with native deer along with a few bred does and two bucks we've put in over the past couple years. For the most part the Texas stats are right except for the 1% on four year olds, it's way way more. If I had to make a guess, less than 20% make it to 5 years old. Few years ago, had around twenty migrants come out after tree planting season to walk the land looking for sheds, skulls and dead deer. Took about six hours for them to do it along with three of us retrieving stuff when they yelled for back up. Found a lot of deer that disappeared over the years.


That sure don't leave many targets if you are only hunting 5 year old and older bucks. Kind of disheartening actually. I knew mortality was high for bucks but had no ideal it was as high as it is before I started reading some of these studies. If you were hunting 640 acres 1 square mile and the area had 40 deer per square mile and a doe/buck ratio of 2/1 this would be a above average area in AL. You would have 26 does if said does raised an average of 1.25 fawns which would be above average probably you would have 16 buck fawns if 20% made it to 5 years old that would leave 3 bucks. This would be on above average to excellent area of the state and still only 3 bucks per square mile on average. Most of us are hunting land that would be inferior to property with these numbers. Kind of a sobering thought. And really tells me maybe it ain't that those old bucks are that hard to kill more than it is you can't kill what ain't there.


I somewhat agree with your math and thought process but if you've only got 640 acres, almost all your buck fawns that you are referencing would disperse and imprint on neighboring properties outside of your 640. Whatever older age class bucks you would have, would come from surrounding properties and that number would be totally dependent on what all your neighbors were shooting and killing. This is why Bama does not have a ton of older age class bucks. Small acreages, not much in the way of large cooperative management programs/areas, almost 100 days of rifle season, and 70+% of the general hunting public being happy about killing any rack buck that they see. Makes it kind of hard to grow older age class bucks. if all you have to hunt is 640 acres, with typical Alabama hunt clubs around it, you're absolutely not going to be pulling the trigger much at all, with a 5 yr old shooting requirement or goal, and would be better off managing your hunter's expectations and setting a harvest goal of 3 yr old bucks. Now if your 640 is in the middle of Danny and Mike's 25,000 acre co-op management area or somewhere similar, that's a whole different situation and you could be very successful.


I was just using 640 acres as a standard area size to extrapolate an average. You could use whatever size area you wanted.


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Re: Mortality rate of bucks by age class? [Re: mike35549] #2746155
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I think there are a lot more bucks that die of old age then people realize, and a lot more then what a few studies purport to show.


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Re: Mortality rate of bucks by age class? [Re: mike35549] #2746213
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I agree Wm, once a buck makes it to five+ he becomes almost unkillable by regular hunting means. I suspect way better than 1/2 of those fall to hunters or cars.

EHD hit a friends 750 acre high fence place. We found a bunch of very old bucks dead that no one even knew were there, no sightings or pics. And ran several cameras. Amazing just how hard a seven year old buck can be to see.


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Re: Mortality rate of bucks by age class? [Re: mike35549] #2746241
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I’d be good with the math in that Study. By my math that should leave me 3-4 4+ year old age class bucks a year to hunt on my property. And since we don’t hardly shoot bucks we should have 10 or so bucks 4, 5,6+.....or older. I realistically think I’m at half that on my little square mile of paradise

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