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Surprise Red Deer
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10/20/21 06:39 PM
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HogNut
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Was checking cameras last weekend and was happily surprised to confirm we have a red deer population at our lease in Young county. I had heard red deer were in the area but had never caught anything on camera. I only noticed when showing one of my buddies of these where a deer was stuck in the tree and he pointed it out! Any information/tips on red deer hunting would be appreciated!
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” – Henry David Thoreau
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Re: Surprise Red Deer
[Re: HogNut]
#8424723
10/20/21 07:08 PM
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Speny713
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Awesome! Hope they continue to reproduce for y'all
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Re: Surprise Red Deer
[Re: HogNut]
#8424950
10/20/21 11:02 PM
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Double AC
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Where are y’all in Young co?
Pretty common from HWY 16 north to maybe 380. Might not go that far, but based on how long they have been in the area and their range, it would not surprise me. Our neighbor to the south introduced them back in the day and subsequently took down his high fence some years later.
They will outcompete WT until the WT get used to them which takes several years IME. Keep a hand on their numbers (particularly the Hinds) if you want a successful WT program. The basically have a 100% fawn recruitment since the Fawns come out well over 100lbs. We hunt them Sept-Jan. Their rut peaks between In early to mid October. Two weeks ago was crazy for us. Dominant Hinds will form larger groups and control an area. There may be smaller groups of hinds outside the core group. Stags will stay in bachelor herds until the rut then travel to the hinds. We have seen stags on one end of the ranch one day and the next be two miles away on the other end of the ranch the next. Most fun way to hunt the stags is to locate them by their roaring and stalk in.
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Re: Surprise Red Deer
[Re: HogNut]
#8425005
10/21/21 12:28 AM
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LeonCarr
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IME they taste better than WT but not quite as good as Axis...pretty good table fare.
Just my .02, LeonCarr
"Whitetail Deer are extinct because of rifles with telescopes mounted on them." - My 11th Grade English Teacher
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Re: Surprise Red Deer
[Re: HogNut]
#8425218
10/21/21 11:58 AM
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Re: Surprise Red Deer
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#8425257
10/21/21 12:28 PM
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Not going to lie wish some would make it over to my place would be pretty cool to get one!
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Re: Surprise Red Deer
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#8425258
10/21/21 12:29 PM
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Hudbone
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A good kind of surprise.
Last edited by Hudbone; 10/21/21 12:29 PM.
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Re: Surprise Red Deer
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#8425415
10/21/21 02:57 PM
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Re: Surprise Red Deer
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#8425420
10/21/21 03:04 PM
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We have some. The new landowner has put them off limits. So now we just feed them. They are very good eating.
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Re: Surprise Red Deer
[Re: HogNut]
#8425432
10/21/21 03:19 PM
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Red Pill
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I'd love to see some where I hunt (Montague County). Mostly I see the landowner's longhorns (which are big pets).
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Re: Surprise Red Deer
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#8425612
10/21/21 06:25 PM
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65x55
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I had some very good red deer burgers when I was in Scotland. Wouldn't mind bagging one and making my own, good luck.
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Re: Surprise Red Deer
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#8425626
10/21/21 06:36 PM
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I would like to know more about the deer stuck up in the tree
Never been to a camping world. I prefer Dick's to be honest.
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Re: Surprise Red Deer
[Re: HogNut]
#8425691
10/21/21 07:41 PM
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stxranchman
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If you more of them then keep them...I would shoot everyone of them on site if they were on my land.
Are idiots multiplying faster than normal people?
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Re: Surprise Red Deer
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#8425715
10/21/21 08:02 PM
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I would like to know more about the deer stuck up in the tree This. Cant believe no one else has asked about that.. How TF? Did it get out alive?
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Re: Surprise Red Deer
[Re: DirtNapTET]
#8425717
10/21/21 08:05 PM
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stxranchman
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I would like to know more about the deer stuck up in the tree This. Cant believe no one else has asked about that.. How TF? Did it get out alive? He is not stuck up in a tree but standing behind it in chest deep mesquites. He is walking towards feeder in the first pic...by time stamp it is the next pic in sequence after that pic.
Are idiots multiplying faster than normal people?
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Re: Surprise Red Deer
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#8425722
10/21/21 08:09 PM
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DirtNapTET
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I would like to know more about the deer stuck up in the tree This. Cant believe no one else has asked about that.. How TF? Did it get out alive? He is not stuck up in a tree but standing behind it in chest deep mesquites. He is walking towards feeder in the first pic...by time stamp it is the next pic in sequence after that pic. Haha see it now, thanks STX
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Re: Surprise Red Deer
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#8425739
10/21/21 08:36 PM
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68rustbucket
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I would like to know more about the deer stuck up in the tree This. Cant believe no one else has asked about that.. How TF? Did it get out alive? He is not stuck up in a tree but standing behind it in chest deep mesquites. He is walking towards feeder in the first pic...by time stamp it is the next pic in sequence after that pic. Haha see it now, thanks STX Looks like it’s feet are not touching the ground to me.
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Re: Surprise Red Deer
[Re: HogNut]
#8425746
10/21/21 08:42 PM
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shadams
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Def not touching the ground in first pic, but obv got out or there'd be buzzards picking at it. Crazy. Anyway, nice Hinds.
edit, on second thought, I thinks its just back a ways, optical illusion.
Last edited by shadams; 10/21/21 08:46 PM.
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Re: Surprise Red Deer
[Re: HogNut]
#8425748
10/21/21 08:43 PM
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stxranchman
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This.
Cant believe no one else has asked about that.. How TF? Did it get out alive?
He is not stuck up in a tree but standing behind it in chest deep mesquites. He is walking towards feeder in the first pic...by time stamp it is the next pic in sequence after that pic. Haha see it now, thanks STX Looks like it’s feet are not touching the ground to me. Well he does have 4' long legs, so they are on the ground if his body is barely above the tops of the low brush. He is not directly behind the tree but a bit behind it....Depth perception.
Are idiots multiplying faster than normal people?
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Re: Surprise Red Deer
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#8425808
10/21/21 09:37 PM
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scalebuster
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There are a bunch of them in the Bryson area.
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Re: Surprise Red Deer
[Re: HogNut]
#8427505
10/23/21 04:39 PM
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huntingbig8
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Big red deer doe was dead on the highway south of Graham last week, There have been a lot of them for about the last 10 years
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Re: Surprise Red Deer
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#8438916
11/04/21 03:11 PM
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HogNut
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The feeder's legs are only 6', those specific hinds/stags legs are not 4'. I am no expert on red deer but I am almost certain this deer is in the tree.
Looks like it’s feet are not touching the ground to me. [/quote] Well he does have 4' long legs, so they are on the ground if his body is barely above the tops of the low brush. He is not directly behind the tree but a bit behind it....Depth perception.
Last edited by HogNut; 11/04/21 03:12 PM.
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” – Henry David Thoreau
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Re: Surprise Red Deer
[Re: HogNut]
#8438939
11/04/21 03:29 PM
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don't you hate it when the hogs make a mud hole under the feeder
hold on Newt, we got a runaway
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Re: Surprise Red Deer
[Re: HogNut]
#8438955
11/04/21 03:47 PM
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stxranchman
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The feeder's legs are only 6', those specific hinds/stags legs are not 4'. I am no expert on red deer but I am almost certain this deer is in the tree.
Looks like it’s feet are not touching the ground to me. Well he does have 4' long legs, so they are on the ground if his body is barely above the tops of the low brush. He is not directly behind the tree but a bit behind it....Depth perception. [/quote] That is a Stag standing behind that tree and/or in that low brush. Stags are much taller than those young hindes and they can't climb a tree. I was wrong on stating 4' legs but they will have 3' tall legs.
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Re: Surprise Red Deer
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#8439027
11/04/21 04:57 PM
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A neat pic. I also see a deer walking normal behind the brush.
It's hell eatin em live
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