638 - What happens when you SPOOK A BUCK? GPS Study with Dr. Gino D'Angelo

The Southern Outdoorsmen Hunting Podcast

Andrew Maxwell & Jacob Myers

Wilderness, Sports

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🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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If you spook your target buck, will he leave and never come back? Today we answer that question with Dr. Gino D'Angelo of the University of Georgia! Dr. D'Angelo is a professor of Deer Ecology & Managment at Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at University of Georgia. Throughout his tenure he has been a part of many studies related to whitetail deer, including GPS collar studies across the southeast! In this episode we dive into a question any deer hunter hasx wondered - what happens when you spook a buck? Does he leave the area completely? Will he immediately circle back? Subjects include: - The decline of whitetail deer in the southern Appalachian mountains - Why cutting timber means more deer - Hunting pressure in the mountains vs low country - how did deer react to heavy dog hunting pressure in one of Dr. D'Angelo's studies? - How long does it take a buck to return to an area after being spooked by a hunter? - How much pressure does it take for a deer to abandon their home range? - How far does a deer run when it is spooked? and a lot more! If you enjoy this episode, share it with a friend and let us know what questions you have for our next podcast on deer GPS studies! Got a question for the show? Submit a listener Q&A form - https://l.linklyhq.com/l/1uMXP Grab some Southern Outdoorsmen merch here - https://l.linklyhq.com/l/1u4aK Join Woodsman Wire - https://l.linklyhq.com/l/1u4aR Use the promo code “southern” for a discount on your OnX Hunt membership here - https://l.linklyhq.com/l/1tyfm Save 10% on your next Vortex Optics order at eurooptic.com using the Promo Code “SGN10” - https://2ly.link/1wyYO Use code SOUTHERN20 for a discount on all vortex apparel, including eyewear Check out Moultrie’s trail cams here - https://2ly.link/1zJWv Check out Latitude Outdoors for your mobile hunting gear - https://2ly.link/1zVDI Check out our favorite First Lite gear - https://bit.ly/4fqYulk Have you tagged a deer using something you heard on the show? Submit your listener success story here - Share Your Story Here Come chat with us on our Thursday Hunter Hangouts! Join our patreon - https://l.linklyhq.com/l/1uMXU OUR PODCASTING GEAR - Main camera - https://amzn.to/3L0renh Secondary cameras - https://amzn.to/3xBUOMy Main light - https://amzn.to/3XKaxUu Secondary lights - https://amzn.to/3XJ9c0m Podcast recorder - https://amzn.to/3RLeLHK Headsets - https://amzn.to/3VZeK5y NOTE: Not all advertisements run on this show are endorsed by The Southern Outdoorsmen Podcast unless an ad is read by one of the hosts. OLD SCHOOL CAMO HATS - https://2ly.link/1yiup Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	They stayed in their home ranges whenever possible.
0:03.2	Even when they were run by dogs, like when we identified that a particular deer was being run by dogs,
0:08.8	they tried to stay in their home range.
0:10.9	And then if they got bounced out of their home range, they were back in their home range within 24 hours.
0:15.5	They have a really high sight fidelity.
0:17.6	So even if they're getting pushed and study after study shows that when a deer
0:21.7	gets bounced out of an area, they're only running like at most 200 yards and then they're
0:26.2	just calming down and they want to get back to where they were. They establish a home range
0:30.9	and they maintain that home range. And even in dog hunting, bucks that were instrumented,
0:35.1	they try to maintain that home range. If they got bounced
0:37.8	out of it, they returned pretty quickly. They're going to get back to that betting area,
0:41.6	usually within 13 hours is what the exact metric we found was in South Carolina. So you might as
0:47.1	will go hunting the next day. And you can think about most hunters, it's like, oh, I bounce those
0:51.5	deer, I'm not going to go back. I'm going to give it some rest. Those deer are back right in there.
0:56.0	Happy deer season, everybody.
0:57.4	We've had a lot of guests on lately talking about early season bow hunting and how to be successful,
1:01.7	and pretty much all of them do the same thing.
1:03.8	They hunt feed trees.
1:05.0	Now, y'all have heard from these guests that the name of the game when it comes to hunting feed trees is you got to cover ground and you got to check a lot of different trees to find that hot feed sign. If you're planning on doing that this early
1:14.6	season, there's one tool that you should really have. That is the acre and producing oak layer
1:18.9	from on X hunt. It's exactly what it sounds like. You click that layer on. It's going to show you
1:23.0	where those oak trees are on the map. And it even will tell you whether or not they're white oaks, red oaks,
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