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      • The research suggests those bucks stick pretty close to home, even during the rut. They may wander a bit before and after the peak of the rut, but older bucks seem to know, more than younger bucks, when it's time to get up and move. They may sit out the prelude, waiting for the main act.
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  2. Sep 20, 2023 · Every buck is huntable, even the elusive night dwellers that seem impossible to track down. So how can you increase your success of harvesting a nocturnal buck during the day? Here are seven tips for how to find and get nocturnal deer and big bucks to move in daylight. 1. Locate Core Area. You now know how key a buck's core area is to survival.

  3. Aug 15, 2018 · In most cases, a buck only seems nocturnal because of three reasons. The first — you aren't close enough to the buck's core area. If you're sitting 500 or 600 yards from the buck's bed, chances are you won't see the deer. You have to be closer to a given buck's bedding area to have a shot at seeing it in daylight.

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  4. Bucks move greater total distances at night (Figure 5) because there are more hours of darkness during the rut. Figure 7. The average distance moved per hour, in yards, by bucks with GPS-enabled collars during rut phases from October 1 to January 31.

  5. Sep 25, 2019 · Two factors in particular are most likely to get a nocturnal deer moving in daylight. The most powerful influence on a nocturnal buck would be the beginning of the rut. Once does start coming into estrus, it’s more likely than any other time of year that a mature buck will get on his feet in daylight.

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  6. Jun 30, 2013 · If they tend to be nocturnal bucks (some are simply by personality) then they will likely keep this tendency during the rut too.

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  7. Nov 2, 2023 · Bucks may become more nocturnal, but this doesn't mean they won't move during the day. In fact, they often do so when hunters have decided to take a break from hunting and leave their post. It is almost as if deer know when a hunter has left the area.

  8. Oct 18, 2012 · Even more interesting, most bucks had two or more focal points — between 60 and 140 acres in size — within their home ranges that they re-visited frequently, about every 20-28 hours. Researchers also found the focal points of several individual bucks overlapped during the peak of the rut.

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