Hatchetman wrote:Tufrthnails wrote:oneflag wrote:Good video, good hunt, the dead tree still makes me nervous.
One question, The big cleaned out area the deer had done, what is it?
A few times over the years I have seen an area similar, 10 -20 foot diameter just beat down full of tracks.
I never have figured out what the deer where doing to make such a mess.
3 season ago I sat and watched a buck wear a spot out like this. He was pawing and snorting and ripping grass with his antlers. He was the only one involved and for whatever reason he was worked up and taking it out on that spot of ground. I was watching through my binos and his hair on his back was all raised up like a mohawk and he was nasty.
I too have come across quite a few spots like this before, mainly while trapping coon and for some reason around grassy drainage ditches a lot.
I always thought, judging by the deep, usually well spaced tine marks left in the dirt that it was mature dominant buck showing another contender buck he was the boss.
Very cool that you've actually seen a buck doing it!
So was the buck you saw doing it a big one?
Oh, and good video Dan!
Look at it this way, maybe the good Lord thinks you should really be sending one through the boiler room of that big ten in the next couple days!!
Yeah it was a great buck for FL. Prob the oldest buck I've ever seen in daylight in FL. I blew the area out not knowing what I know now I hunted that buck every chance I got in that spot. I have never seen a buck do it again. But I found another spot that looked very similar last season on another WMA in the middle of a palmetto field. I'm planning to do a few observation stands their to see if I catch a mature buck moving in that area. And put a game plan together from their.
I think it's a dominance thing as well.
