A lot of it has to do with the make up of the habitat on a larger landscape level around you…..In late summer does are going to shift around and occupy the best fawning habitat…..Lets just say for example that fawning habitat is fairly limited in your area and you have a whole property full of prime……Even if you whack out a bunch of does during hunting season it’s most likely that come time have fawns….your fawning habitat will fill back again…..A lot of times dispersing bucks will end up occupying the secondary locations where they find adequate food sources but cover may be limited to a downed oak tree on a ridge point or something of that nature…..Its why you so often find bucks that have their core areas behind someone’s house or in a little 5 acre woodlot, etc…..These are areas that arent as conducive to fawning……
If you’ll take an area and zoom out to 30,000 ft and look at the area as a whole…..A lot of places will break down as here are my fawning areas and here are all the secondary locations where bucks are able to occupy…..There’s a lot of areas where the secondary locations will far outweigh the fawning…..BradB’s area we talked about would probably be a good example…..If inside of a 10,000 acre bubble you only have 3000 acres of fawning habitat and 7,000 acres of secondary habitat then think about how that could affect dispersal in the long run if fawning is limited but there are endless places to hide bucks…..Every property on the map doesn’t set up with the same scenario
Last edited by CNC; 09/28/25 09:59 AM.
