#259 - When Do Bucks Leave Does After Breeding? Whitetail Biologist Dr. Bronson Strickland
The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests
Jake Hofer
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🗓️ 1 November 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode of The Exodus Podcast, e are back in the studio for part one of this two part podcast topic, talking with renowned whitetail biologist and host of the Deer University Podcast Dr. Bronson Strickland. Bronson has devoted years to studying whitetails and has helped the hunting industry as a whole expand what they knew or thought they knew about whitetails.
We discuss:
-Do bucks look for new does only during the middle of the day
-The best mid-day spots for the rut
-How long do bucks stay with does in heat
-Does the rut happen on the same days every year
-The best time during the rut for peak daytime buck activity
-How far will bucks travel to find the next hot doe
-How long bucks are gone when traveling to find a hot doe
And so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on? Welcome to the Exodus podcast. This is Jake Hofer. And this week, we have a great |
| 0:04.3 | episode with Dr. Bronson Strickland, who is the host of Deer University podcast and also works with |
| 0:10.2 | Mississippi State University and has done a lot of research and is a renowned white-tail biologist. |
| 0:15.3 | This is a part one of a two-part series, and we're talking about when bucks are leaving doze and then we have a second |
| 0:23.7 | episode going live on Thursday with Ryan Springer who is from Ohio and then we're going to be |
| 0:28.7 | talking about what he has seen in the field what his hunters have seen in the field and just a really |
| 0:33.1 | good conversation having the back of your mind as we are about to enter some of the most |
| 0:37.1 | exciting times to be a whitetail hunter in this this episode, you're going to be able to listen to what Dr. Bronson Strickland and his team has learned through research over the years in regard to the rut, how to hunt it more effectively based off of data, and also some really interesting facts that I think you guys will find fascinating. So I hope you guys enjoy this |
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| 1:27.9 | But that is it for now. I hope you guys enjoy this episode the part one is here today with dr. Bromple Strickland and then Thursday with Ryan Springer which would be part two so here we go |
| 1:37.2 | Lights camera follow the trailer red and shoot if you know where a deer's betting and you know where he's eating, that deer should be dead. |
| 1:45.5 | If you're passive on a deer, what you're doing is you're teaching. |
| 1:48.9 | I've got 30 bucks in the Michigan record book. |
| 1:51.2 | Everyone but one has had at least one previous wound on his body. |
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| 2:03.0 | Bronson, thanks for hopping on here. |
| 2:04.6 | How's it going? |
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