Ep. 430: Jon McRoberts and the Story of One Buck's 185-Mile Rut Journey
Wired To Hunt Podcast
MeatEater
4.8 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
On today's show, guest host Tony Peterson chats with Dr. Jon McRoberts about the Missouri deer research he led, which discovered how far some bucks are capable of traveling throughout the fall.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Podcast, home of the modern White Tail Hunter. |
| 0:07.6 | And now your host, Mark Kenyon. |
| 0:10.6 | Hey all, welcome to Wired Hunt. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm your guest host, Tony Peterson, and today we're talking with dear researcher Dr. John |
| 0:19.3 | McRoberts about a radio-colored buck that walked nearly 200 miles. |
| 0:39.6 | Welcome to Wired Hunt, which is brought to you by First Light. |
| 0:42.8 | I am your guest host, Tony Peterson. |
| 0:46.4 | Mark is out of the office this week. |
| 0:48.3 | He is down, I think he said, at a cosplay convention in Tuscaloosa. |
| 0:52.7 | I said he was going to be an anime samurai or something. |
| 0:56.9 | Anyway, I hope Mark's having fun down there. |
| 0:59.5 | I've got the reins to Wired Hunt today, and I've got a fascinating guest with me. |
| 1:04.7 | His name is Dr. John McRoberts, and he's done all kinds of wildlife research in his life. |
| 1:10.2 | Some really cool international studies. |
| 1:12.8 | He's also led some studies here in the States, including a pretty comprehensive two-regions |
| 1:19.6 | study in Missouri that they're still parsing through all the data. |
| 1:24.0 | But it's the one that came out recently where this buck that they had collared walked nearly |
| 1:33.0 | 200 miles from his home range as a three and a half year old, and kind of set the dear |
| 1:38.2 | world on fire a little bit, because a lot of us think that deer stick to a core range, |
| 1:43.3 | they disperse when they're young bucks, and then they find a nice area they like, and |
| 1:47.4 | they hang out there. |
| 1:48.9 | This GPS study kind of turned that around on its head, and really has opened up some |
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