One question that kept coming up in my research, usually by younger hunters, is why buck deer can have antlers with widely ... will scrape on trees, attack small bushes, and even spar with other ...

At first, I thought there were two bucks bedded together; the portions of antler ... to give the deer plenty of time to move far enough back into the aspens so they wouldn’t detect me. Twenty minutes ...

Buck often lose their antlers when they bump into something or get them caught on a branch ... As the forest changes, the deer change their trails. If a big tree falls, the deer travel around ...

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Shed antlers are typically easier to spot at a distance when hunting in a field compared to looking around trees and brush ... is to hunt where deer, especially bucks, were feeding back in January.

A buck that has had something stuck in his antlers for at least two months ... looked like an outdoor rope swing that fastens to a tree branch. “Poor guy. He doesn’t want that thing hanging ...

This behavior, referred to as “rubbing lines,” occurs when deer rub their antlers on trees (sometimes in a perfect line) to signal to other bucks that this territory is taken. “During rut ...

which bucks often rub their antlers against to sharpen them during the mating season. Avoid stringing lights or other decorations between trees and bushes where deer can pass through and catch on ...