WHERE BUCKS GO DURING THE RUT
Southern Deer Doctor
Editor’s Note: Dr. Larry Marchinton, a retired
professor of wildlife, from the University of Georgia
in Athens, Georgia, probably has written more on deer
behavior
and movement than any other wildlife scientist.
Marchinton reports that, "If I only had one type
of place to hunt at any time of the year to try and
take a big buck but especially during the rut, I'd hunt
funnel areas. I know that funnel areas, which are productive
at any time of the year, tend to be the most productive
during the rut when bucks are on the move and searching
for does to breed. Even though bucks will cover a wide
expanse of territory during
the rut to breed does, most of the time to get from
one woodlot to another, the bucks will move through
a funnel. If you're there, you can take him."
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