Well, I take that back……..You could probably sample something like the number of late born fawns on a 1000 acres and get a decent idea…….something like that…..You’re not going to be able to just simply sit in a stand and count bucks and does though and try to extrapolate that…..Bucks and does just don’t use the landscape the same as each other…….Does tend to flock to the improved areas with good food and prime fawning habitat and the bucks tend to occupy more of the secondary habitat generally speaking……It could really throw your count off depending on where you’re sitting…..That’s why you have to take a much larger area into account……

Some of the best areas for bucks is often times the unimproved property bordering the big plantation for that reason ^^^^……You may have a bunch of bucks over here and they have a bunch of does over there and either one of you would be off if you just tried to count only what you were seeing…..Urban areas are similar……An urban area may have many more bucks occupying the green spaces than does while just outside of town in better habitat a guy may be stacked with does…..If he doesn’t take into account the larger area and not just what he’s seeing then he wont have realistic perspective on buck to doe ratio. Buck to doe ratios don’t exist on small scales…..If you have 500 acres and your neighbor has 500 acres…..you both have the same buck to doe ratio…..Its whatever the ratio is for the 1000 acres combined and that’s whatever it is for the 5000 acres around that and probably more…..When bucks start moving around for the rut they cover a lot of ground.

Last edited by CNC; 12/10/24 12:20 PM.
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